[Mr. K]

Even if one-half babysits while the other half digs ditches, there should be SOME MINIMUM work/training requirement

Preferable work, because the government ‘training’ is rarely effective too

Anyone here remember Jimmuh’ Carters worthless CETA program?

[dp0622]

I'll tell ya my story. 25. Driving a cab. Had a college degree in god knows what.
My aunt saw an ad for underemployed workers. 4000 bucks computer training. I showed up. Thee were four of us. O staten island. Where literally hundreds of Obama’s men are hanging around delis and bodegas drinking 40s.
Anyway I took 300 hours in Microsoft office and typing and got a word processing job then presentations specialist an then supervisor. Very good money. THAT was a good 4000 dollar investment. But most of the people in the class, I fear, were going nowhere. They wee trash, I hate to say.

[txrefugee]

“Anyone here remember Jimmuh’ Carters worthless CETA program?”

Better yet….did you know that the worthless Job Corp Centers that LBJ funded in his disastrous War on Poverty are STILL in operation? Every time we pass the one near San Marcos, TX, it amazes me that anyone would send their child to such a dead end place….paid for by we, the tax drones, of course.

[rjsimmon]

Anyone here remember Jimmuh’ Carters worthless CETA program?

Do you mean the one signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1973? The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act? I would love to toss that tar baby at Carter, but he didn't do it.