Bush highlights job training in N.C. (MSNBC Online)

[markus]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Bush is using North Carolina, a state where a new economy is replacing the old, to propose <i> doubling the number of Americans who receive job-training help from the federal government but without additional funding.</i>

Emphasis mine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4668073

I'm sorry, but with a headline like that, I think what we really need to focus on is math education.

How can anyone take this seriously?

Worse, he will get the credit and state legislatures will get the blame when it doesn't work (which I'm sure is the plan). It implies that there 50% wasteful overhead in job training, which seems highly unlikely.

[0007]

1. junior is just blathering along these days and the sheep's are bleeping

happily to hear such omnipotent wisdom.

[mhr]

2. One Understands That The Training Funds Amount To About $1,500 Per Person

What kind of training will $1,500 buy.

Let's get real and call this a stinking pile of a proposal.

[Chitown_Dem]

4. One class - 3 credit hours at a regular university

That's it. I agree it is BS.

[yardwork]

3. The Charlotte area is having terrible problems with plant closings.

It's also a very conservative, Christian fundamentalist area. This should be an area of huge strength for *, but the plant closings have people very angry.

How will job retraining work if nobody is hiring?

[lumpy]

5. The prez is

only capable of delivering empty rhetoric and bombs and that is no problem considering the support he receives from his idolators.

[cosmicdot]

6. NC should get a hemp industry rolling

in as many areas as conceivable: textiles, energy, competitor to their alcoholic package stores ... whatever ...

I expect that would create manufacturing jobs; quality engineers (likely, currently imprisoned); marketing and advertising opportunities; retail income ...


"...biological technicians, software engineers, desktop publishers, bioinformatic specialists. These are the jobs of the 21st century..." - gwbushit's 'speech'

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040405-3.html

Here's the challenge: You just heard me describe how your state has changed, and it's going to even change even faster as time goes on. And so, are we going to be able to make these opportunities available for your workers? That's the challenge we face. Technology is changing; can the work force change with it? And that's the challenge.

and, the audience just loved it :shrug:

[aquart]

7. What new economy?

Who will hire the "retrained" people? What industry is clamoring for workers skilled in a particular way?