Kudos to Oklahoma’s Senator Coburn for poking the bloated carcass of government waste with a stick! 49 more to go?
[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="24" size_format="px"]Jobs Program Spent $76,000 Per Person To Help Youth Find Minimum Wage Jobs[/typography]
A new jobs training oversight report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) found that a federally-funded Oklahoma Job Corps program spent around $76,000 per person to help youth secure minimum wage jobs.
The report, released Tuesday, comes 18 months after a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that billions of taxpayer dollars are being poured into job training programs that benefit those who run them, not the unemployed workers they are supposed to assist.
“Taxpayers should be appalled Congress has done nothing to reform these programs for more than 18 months,” said Sen. Coburn.
Sen. Coburn said he wanted to use his home state of Oklahoma as a case study for job training programs throughout the nation.
Key findings included:
-Wasteful administrative costs are eating up job training dollars. In one program, just 14 cents of every dollar went to actual job training.
-Questionable spending abounds. For example, the Job Corps program spent $36,000 on flowers and billboards. Other expenditures included bowling trips and recreational activities that had little to do with job training.
-Some job training programs appear to segregate participants by race, gender, and background. For example, Oklahoma’s 40 job training programs have eight that target Native Americans and seven for veterans–”some of which require veterans to pursue training for ‘green skills,’ not because of labor market analysis but because politicians in Washington are imposing ideological agendas on states.”
As one Oklahoma constituent who went through the jobs program explained:
I attended three different federally funded job assistance programs. All three were absolutely unhelpful and contributed to my panic that I may never find a good job again. One Workforce worker advised me to ‘dumb down’ my resume and even made revisions to my Workforce posted resume that included the removal of my educational and professional accomplishments. A job counselor at a different agency advised me that a ‘good job’ was one that paid $10/hour.
A record 87,897,000 Americans are no longer in the labor force.
[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="24" color="#A0662C" size_format="px"]Instead of throwing taxpayer money down the drain, government could… oh, I dunno… GET OUT OF THE WAY and let business grow again?[/typography]
And people wonder why I really don’t give a shit that I owe taxes from the last year my business was open? Fuck ‘em. Where’s the Gadsden flag emoticon???
Don’t you wish you had a say in the crap they do with your money? Supposedly that’s why we have Congressmen and Senators. Bullshit!
Never mind, I forgot it’s my gravatar!
“According to Census figures, some 200,000 small businesses disappeared from the rolls between 2008 and 2010. Those businesses were responsible for some three million jobs.”
Breitbart
and to think, this is what the man at the top wants – he admitted it recently – He slipped and admitted his plan is working – He has intentional forced people out of work so he could control their every move – He does not care if he drives up crime either as long as he can keep control – He has stolen enough of our tax dollars to last him, and his friends plus families several lifetime -
I’m not surprised. Oklahoma was founded by people expecting the government to give them everything. It started with the land run and continues to this day.
Yanno, that sort of thing is happening everywhere. Around here the biggest new industry of the Obama years is breaking into shut-down businesses and homes and striping out the copper. And this is where the economy hasn’t fallen as far, they say.
Want to get the economy roaring” Get the entire Democrat Party to commit mass suicide, a la the Jim Jones bunch.
Yeah, they’ve been doing that in even churches here…