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Old 01-08-2012, 06:41 AM
 
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Announced by the president this week, the Department of Labor's Summer Jobs 2012 is being promoted as a private-federal partnership in which a quarter of a million unemployed, low-income youths will enter the workforce.”

U.S. Department of Labor -- Summer Jobs+ (http://www.dol.gov/summerjobs/ - broken link)
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:42 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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That's because no one else will hire them.
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:02 AM
 
Location: Too far from home.
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

What is Obama thinking? Does he really want to try to stop the cycle? Get these kids to thinking that welfare isn't a lifestyle?? that there is an alternative - to go to work?? Shame on him.
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:04 AM
 
Location: Houston
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These are the kind of programs that----if done right....I could support. That is a big if.
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:06 AM
 
Location: Democratic Peoples Republic of Redneckistan
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These are the kind of programs that----if done right....I could support. That is a big if.
I agree, that is a BIG IF.
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:33 AM
 
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

What is Obama thinking? Does he really want to try to stop the cycle? Get these kids to thinking that welfare isn't a lifestyle?? that there is an alternative - to go to work?? Shame on him.
Just a huge coincidence that this program is announced now with the elections 10 months away and his approval ratings in the mud...

Yeah right....
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:35 AM
 
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These are the kind of programs that----if done right....I could support. That is a big if.
If they directly replace some type of welfare I'm all for it.
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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If they directly replace some type of welfare I'm all for it.
Only 70K are paying jobs. The rest (110K) are unpaid internships.
He can't get government funding as this never went through Congress for approval/funding.
This is not like the stimulus jobs program where stimulus money was used to pay for that summer youth program.

But that unimportant tidbit is not publicized to hotly by the MSM.

President Obama
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:44 AM
 
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'Ya mean I have to work AND not get paid?'
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:50 AM
 
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Just a huge coincidence that this program is announced now with the elections 10 months away and his approval ratings in the mud...

Yeah right....
Yeah, and Romney is promising jobs. If he gets in office don't hold your breath. Bain will have outsourced them, closed down the company, sent Romney his check before Romney takes the oath. Does he have a plan to outsource government?
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