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April 05, 2004
Bush | President Bush To Double Job Training

Reuters reports that President Bush will unveil a new jobs initiative on Monday to double the number of Americans enrolled in skills training:

Senior administration officials, who spoke on condition on anonymity, told reporters on Sunday the new training initiative would provide workers with “innovation training accounts” and give state governors greater leeway in organizing training programs by reducing federal mandates.

The officials could not say how much new training was likely this year, however. Some l00,000 workers, or one-quarter of the president’s target, would receive training from $250 million in new spending proposed in Bush’s 2005 budget.

Under Bush’s plan, workers would receive tax dollars through individual accounts to purchase job training services from corporations, “unions, faith-based providers, community colleges, other higher education institutions, trade and technical schools,” one official said.

With the economy finally creating jobs, jobless claims declining and this new training effort, the economy will be a positive issue for President Bush’s reelection campaign.



Posted by Dan Spencer at April 5, 2004 12:42 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Re-Training is good. Unfortunately, we have to teach them to read first! We have a problem there
that has existed for over 30 years.

A recent Fox News article talks about the reasons for “outsourcing”. Their statement is that the school systems are really failing miserably in teaching the science and math skills that are needed in today’s global economy. Therefore, we wind up with jobs in India, etc.

Posted by: leaddog2 at April 5, 2004 10:10 AM

This one is sheer eyewash.

There’s not another dollar of federal money in the program — just another unfunded mandate that the States do something.

The illusion of Action, but not the Reality™ of it.

Posted by: Don at April 5, 2004 12:18 PM

If only his words reflect his deeds.

Posted by: Anthony at April 5, 2004 12:20 PM

Thank god for illusion. The last thing we need is another immortal jobs program sucking our dollars into the bureacratic abyss.

Posted by: mark buehner at April 5, 2004 12:32 PM

The illusion of Action, but not the Reality™ of it.

If only his words reflect his deeds.

ARe you two projecting Clinton onto Bush. Break out one of his SOTUSs and see who promises the sun and the moon. ‘98 is a classic.

Bye the bye, I am with Mark.

Posted by: jones at April 5, 2004 01:27 PM

What a bunch of pessimists. Bush nails one of the worst problems in America right on the head, and all you dumb asses can do is bitch and moan.

There are damn good jobs just waiting to be taken, but who gets them? Europeans and canadians, because they are SMARTER and better technical trained. They can’t find jobs in their countries, because there aren’t any there. They are HERE!

And YOU Anthony, your an import. Why? Because the job is HERE, not in the shit hole you came from.

Anthony, if you want America to be like the socialist country you came from, just move back into that downwards spiraling hole, don’t try drag this one into the same shit you left.
If you don’t like it here, fuck off!

Posted by: Fat Guy at April 6, 2004 02:14 AM

Hahahaha! I love it. Bush has plugged every liberal idea, and all the democrats can do is whine and say, well, we don’t want education THAT way, because, well, we didn’t think of it.

All democrats can say is “WE HATE BUSH WAHHHH!!!”

I hate kerry, why? because he’s talking and planning with the eenemy to the freedom of this country.
He’s planning with terrorists on how to sway votes in this country. He’s allowing other countries to tell Americans how to vote!! It’s crimminal.

The guy belongs at the end of a plank with something pointy poking him in the back….
traitor

Posted by: Fat Guy at April 6, 2004 02:21 AM

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