Obama expands Summer Jobs program, adding 110,000 new jobs for young people

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/did-you-see-110000-new-summer-jobs-for-youth

The White House announced an expansion of the Summer Jobs+ employment program for young people that began earlier this year. A Reuters article explains:

"The initiative is in partnership with the cities of Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco and is meant to add 110,000 jobs, internships, and mentorships to the 180,000 summer work opportunities for 16- to 24-year-olds that Obama has promised to create for 2012.

Under the new program, companies such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Johnson & Johnson, and UBS, as well as nonprofits and federal agencies such as the Department of Education will offer paying jobs as well as mentorships and other training programs."

[jberryhill]

1. "Obama sends youth to work camps!"

In his continuing effort to destroy the family and socialize the minds of young people, his youth labor czar has demanded that many families give up their summer vacations, because that dick of a manager at Walgreens won't give Jimmy a week off.

This insidious plan is designed to yoke our teenagers like slaves in a galleon, to get paid for work that can be taxed to feed his insatiable desire to give away money to poor people who don't work and have entirely too many babies.

Gone are the days when you could bundle up a fistful of pubescent rage and insecurity in the back of the station wagon and head out with the dog on the roof into the great American Canada.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. LOL! I needed that. :D n/t

[jberryhill]

3. Heck, watch for it on FOX tomorrow

They're beyond parody anyway.

[Whisp]

4. thankyou for that.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. !!!

[TexasTowelie]

6. If I was new I'd hit the alert button, but I know better.

Let the indoctrination begin.

Thanks for the laugh!

[alp227]

7. No, Obama wants our young people to grow up to be on welfare instead of working!

That's what Mark Levin and Michael Savage and Sean Hannity say! I don't get all these silly "jobs programs" that 0bambi is floating to the media. They're just lies or those jobs are going to illegal aliens and anchor babies.

[Zalatix]

9. Wow, that looked real. I could CLEARLY see Rmoney doing that.

[jberryhill]

10. It's a simple formula

Take anything the president does... Let's say he eats eggs for breakfast... and assume it is evil. So, eating eggs becomes "abortions for chickens".

[HiPointDem]

8. "180,000 summer work opportunities... will offer paying jobs as well as mentorships

and other training programs..."

"work opportunities." not all of those are paying jobs, so the headline isn't quite correct.

i'd be interested in seeing the breakdown of paying jobs v. mentorships & training programs.