Bush & jobs training

[Bill McBlueState]

The protests at Bush's appearances in Ohio and Arizona give me some hope.

I think the more Bush tries to talk about domestic issues like jobs, the more working class people will stop paying attention to his supposed successes in foreign policy. Then the true nature of this miserable failure will come out.

So go ahead, *, try your little gimmicks to fix the mess we're in. It's just going to call attention to the fact that you don't really care and you're clueless. We're not stupid. (I hope...)

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Job training funding is a cruel hoax

Center for American Progress has the goods:

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News reports indicate that in his State of the Union Address, President Bush will propose $120 million in "new" job training grants at community colleges. The problem is, the proposal comes after Bush has repeatedly slashed job training and vocational education programs. In fact, over the last three years, he has proposed at least $1 billion in cuts to job training and vocational education:

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http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=22536