White House Considers Creating a “Department of Jobs”…
Problem solved!
(Fox) — On Aug. 5, in a move that went virtually unnoticed amid the clamor over a rating agency’s downgrading of United States debt, the administration announced a new jobs program for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Obama called it a “reverse boot camp,” intended to retrain veterans for civilian jobs. Part of the program would include a “returning hero tax credit” for companies that hire unemployed disabled veterans.
The administration may also merge the Department of Commerce, the Office of the United States Trade Representative and some economic divisions at the State Department into a new agency, administration officials said. Possible names include the Department of Jobs or the Department of Competitiveness.
This focus on the little things is painful for many Democrats who see big problems, but there is growing acceptance that there may be no alternative to waiting for the next election.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, August 15, 2011, at 5:00 pm | 
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Yet another wasteful, taxpayer money-sucking, oppressive, bureaucratic, regulation-ridden agency that will harass the private sector and invade privacy.
Department of Competitiveness is sufficiently Orwellian. I say go with that one.
I’m all for veterans getting every break they can get, they certainly deserve it but don’t be fooled, this isn’t about jobs it’s about creating another special interest group beholden to proggie handouts and expanding government once again, nothing more.
how many more departments of handjobs do we need? roll up your sleeves, wipe off your hands & get out of the private sectors way……….
Sounds like a winner & in 30 years it will have 16K federal employees & a budget of 75 billion dollars like the Dept . Of Energy…
Friggin Democrats everything is an excuse to grow government…
Treasury going broke from low tax revenues in a recession?
Don’t loosen up some the strangulations you’ve put on business NO NO create another layer of unfunded government jobs… Yea htat’s the ticket…
AAAAAAAAKKKKKKK PPPPFTtttt!
Job creation! Errrr. Yeah…
Laser-beam lock.
The correct name for this travesty should be the Deparment of Making Companies Employ People They Don’t Need and/or Can’t Afford.
I guess a good question to ask would be who would head this department……..more of the same OR SOMEBODY WHO HAS ACTUALLY HELD A JOB OR EMPLOYED PERSONS FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR?
Isn’t there already a “Department of Labor?” A “Department of Commerce?”
Why start up a new “Department of Redundancy Department?”
Lets just say this happens and companies decide to get rid of non-veteran employees and hire veterans in their place for the special tax incentives? That is a net gain of exactly 0% in the unemployment rate.
Didn’t see that one coming now did you Demonrats ? There you guys go thinking you are the job creators again.
Joe Paterno carries a briefcase?
It will be effective as the Ministry of Silly Walks…….. probably just as funny too…..
…….. expect daily “jobs created, saved or thought about” results released ………….
Monty Python Ministry of Silly Walks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Jyu6eioZ4
Let’s see…. the last time Preznit Putt Putt and his merry band of spendaholics tried to stimulate the economy, it cost an average of $278,000 dollars per job produced. You would think everyone would be thanking him for this stroke of genius. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-s-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-job_576014.html
As usual the vicious commies like Obama are trying to cast our great veterans into the role of helpless victims who can only get a job with government help. Just shows how much contempt they have for all of our brave military people. They dishonor them at every turn.
“Returning hero tax credit” – more marxist sloganeering. Makes me want to vomit. We all know that if Obuttma and the commiecrats hadn’t been destroying the economy there would be plenty of employment opportunities for everyone. Absolutely nothing is sacred to these evil twisted commiecrat gnomes.
“Reverse Boot Camp” How about a “Forward Boot Camped right up Obuttma’s ass”? Obuttma is total, complete piece of shit.
[snaps fingers] I’ve got it! The Department of Jobs can put people to work building our defenses against extraterrestrial invasion!
(Per recommendation from sooper-genius Paul Krugman)
Department of Jobs. Wow. I wonder if that will work as well as the Department of Education. Or the Department of Energy. Or Obamacare aka the Department of Health and Human Services. Or …
Dear King Thuggy. The answer is not to put more government in. The answer is to take the government out.
Oh, wait, he doesn’t want to hear that. We are so flecked.
That should create 100,000+ SEIU unioned, government workers, another 100,000 guaranteed democrat votes. To the typical Dronecrat, this must sound too good to be true.
Generally speaking, highly competitive economies aren’t noted for their massive “Department of Competitiveness” bureaucracies. Just sayin’.
Why not “Ministry of Plenty”?
Is this what the American Dream has devolved into? A lousy job?
every city has such a department already
“Mr. Obama called it a “reverse boot camp,” intended to retrain veterans for civilian jobs.”
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I think Stalin called his a “reeducation center”.
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The sheer brilliance of this just makes my head spin…oh, wait, that’s just the vodka I keep drinking to drown out the chronic misery inflicted on the THINKING populace by this administration…..my bad.
VOTE – 2012
How much is THIS going to cost us?
How many more Government (taxpayer funded) jobs will be created?
How many more new regulations will be written?
This is, as usual, Obama’s answer to everything… more and bigger government.
I have one suggestion – instead of creating another bloated agency that do nothing but suck more tax dollars, why not just abolish all the useless ones we have like EPA, DOE, DOI, FDA, Dept of agriculture, etc… any agency that put more regs than hamper employment or small businesses…
And we have roughly 2 more years of this bullshit…
C’mon now guys ‘n’ gals!!!!
I mean it appears they’ve already invented a time machine!!!!
‘Cause it sure as fuck seems like we just flew 75 years into the past to the heart of the FDR administration.
Idiots, every last one ‘em.
RTS
Just what our Veterans need another bureaucracy to navigate through that will not be useful or helpful.
I’m certain Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be out tomorrow touting this ‘new’ theory on how to put people to work……..Yep, gastergrab is right. Reeducation center/camps is spot on. Maybe, out of all those returning vets he’ll find one or two that know how to drive one of his brand spanking new buses! The skills some of these returning vets have are far superior to recent college grads out of any of the elite schools. For one thing, you have to think/reason/and be right by survival instinct. Something you can’t teach. Warriors are born – it’s in the soul and DNA. They’ll do just fine if given the chance.
Why doesn’t the asshole just mandate that people have to get a job? That seems to be his style anyway.
I have heard Borscht soup is delicious. My wish is not to have it as my only choice. Central planning departments will dine on caviar and the proletariat dines on beet soup. Vote O out of office and rid the government of his enablers. Maybe a juicy steak will be in our future
I smell a scam.
Vets can get education and re-training with the GI Bill, and they’re apt to have good jobs before they enter the military.
Mark Levin says that he prefers a Department of Cupcakes.
Heh.
C’mon, you guys. Barry’s gonna be looking for a job in January of’13!
Doesn’t this dept already exist? It’s called the Dept of Labor and it’s useless nature is enshrined in the hallowed halls of DC already.
See, if Barry cranks up this new boondoggle, he’ll be able to say he put about 500 peeps back to work (staffing the new boondoggle).
Finally, doesn’t the House have to okay the expenditure of $$ to create this sham? Hint, Congress Critters. The answer should be NO!
How about a Department of Filling Out Forms? Or a Department of Sharpening Pencils? Ora Department of Thinking Up Names for Other Departments?
What about the DEPT of LABOR?
Maybe the newly formed Dept. of Jobs can put together a panel of experts — a jobs commission — to strategize how to reduce unemployment. They can meet for 11 months, draft a plan and have the poopoo -n-chief ignore it all.