Bush, on Campaignlike Swing, Promotes Job-Training Initiative

[gristy]

I heard * speak on this on the news this morning. He gave the example "It used to be, you would train 1000 beauticians, 50 would find jobs, and you'd have 950 beauticians out of work." He says they aren't going to do it that way. They're going to train people for the jobs that need workers. Well, * appears to be a friggin genius. Not only can he subtract, but he thinks the guvmint should train people for jobs for which there are openings. Gee, why hadn't Clinton thought of that?

Oh, and maybe I'm giving * too much credit. He might have developed his example by assuming 50 find work and 950 don't find work. Then all he has to do is add!

By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: January 22, 2004

PHOENIX, Jan. 21 - The White House insisted on Wednesday that President Bush's State of the Union speech was not the opening shot of his re-election campaign. But that did not stop the president from taking a relatively small job-training initiative that he included in the speech to two of the most hotly contested states in the coming election, Ohio and Arizona.

At community colleges in both states, Mr. Bush argued that a series of programs in his forthcoming budget, totaling a little over $500 million if Congress approves them, would help improve the skills of workers and qualify them for higher-paying technical jobs. The details sounded much like the kind of job retraining efforts that President Bill Clinton regularly promoted around the country in the 1990's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/politics/22BUSH.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. What kind of job training is involved in...

...becoming a greeter at Wal-Mart? How to smile? How to say "Hello?" :shrug:

[colonel odis]

2. community colleges, eh?

a lot of community colleges teach trades. i wonder what suble or not-so-subtle message there is in bush going to a community college and not a four-year university? is that his way of telling us to be content as medical transcriptionists? and to let the well-born handle the real jobs?

[Blue_Roses]

3. I heard this on the news

and they showed a clip of Bush speaking and then it cut to some protesters outside, and one guy was yelling, "why train us for jobs that AREN'T there." There was a huge group and they looked pretty hot!

[Enraged_Ape]

8. No kidding

Exactly for what jobs does George want to train us for? :shrug:

[mhr]

4. So, Unemployed Professionals Are To Retrain For Trades?

Why in the Sam H**L did they go to college in the first place?

[icymist]

5. Bush is out of touch with 'common people'

and this just makes that realization clearer.

[JHB]

6. Promises, promises...

More vaporware from the Bushies. After all, gummint job training interferes with the holy free market

[Ernesto]

7. "Campaignlike"

Campainging is all they keep the lil' cheerleader around for.

[KayLaw]

9. Name names

Or, more specifically, name jobs. I really want to know because I have been checking the newspapers and I do see a lot of jobs for nurses and cleaning people but not much else. I really want to know what these jobs are.

[kwolf68]

10. IF CLINTON

had proposed government job training, the Reich would be marching against the “impending rise of Communist tyranny in America.”

[KayLaw]

12. Hah

What if he had implied that there are jobs out there but Americans are so unqualified and unskilled, the corporations have no choice but send those jobs to China and India!

[aeon flux]

11. He doesn't provide any examples

One industry where openings are plentiful:

The military.

What else could he be referring to, other than Wal-Mart?