Obama’s Executive Order Youth Jobs Plan Includes 110,000 Unpaid Positions, Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers $1.5 Billion…
No wonder he had to circumvent Congress to enact this disaster.
(The Hill) — President Obama on Thursday will unveil a summer-jobs initiative that the White House says is already on track to create 180,000 “work opportunities” in the private sector in 2012.
That is the number of opportunities, which includes mentoring and unpaid internships, that companies have told the administration they are willing to create. Some 70,000 jobs are paid, the White House says.
The initiative was hatched after Congress failed to approve a $1.5 billion summer-jobs fund that President Obama had been seeking as part of the American Jobs Act.
“Today’s announcement is the latest in a series of executive actions the Obama administration is taking to strengthen the economy and move the country forward because we can’t wait for Congress to act,” a White House statement reads.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the “opportunities” are all new and were not jobs that would have existed anyway.
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What a joke…oh, first.
THE EMPORER IS A FINK
So our esteemed leaders in the house will not fund it, right? Right?
Why are y’all laughing at me?
I really thought the “Three Stooges” were all dead, but apparently they run the Government!
Imbeciles! Everywhere you look! Imbeciles!
“I found him naked, singing on a windmill”
Olr Soviet era joke comes to mind:
“As long as the bosses pretend to pay us we’ll pretend to work.”
Obama Youth Squads in the making.
I heard a man of fox news say this benefits illegal aliens!!!
Like I said on another thread. Don’t worry, most of the applicants will be found inelegible, and we won’t find out about it for months. In the meantime, he will crow about all the wonderful things he is doing for the poor. Everyone will swoon and talk about how he is going to do all these things for Americans.
It’s a fake, just like all the promises he made before he was elected the first time. And just like the stimulus, and just like the Preus, and Solentra and on and on. It is all smoke and mirrors. Believe it!!!
‘Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the “opportunities” are all new and were not jobs that would have existed anyway’.. these wouldn’t be jobs for occupy rabble that will be in high gear by summer.. and the beginning of Hussein’s civilian army..
Just shut the Gov’t down already! The Repubs need to just say — NO MORE!
If these are unpaid positions, WHOSE POCKETS ARE GETTING LINED BY THE 1.5 B ???????/
It really has nothing to do with “Youth Jobs” — that’s just the pretty package wrap on the program. What it is about is Chicago-style patronage, where the high six-figure salaries will go to favored political insiders who really won’t and don’t need to show up for work.
So Third World! Just like Chicago.
Let’s see $1.5b/70,000 paid jobs, that’s $21k each. For what, 3 months. $85, annualized.
Not bad for a teenage job.
Oh wait, I forgot the beuracracy’s cut. No wonder 110,000 other jobs will go unpaid!
The ones that are paid are probably minimum wage, that would give the kids $4k for the summer.
The beauracrats get $17K per job? Does anyone ever crunch these numbers in DC?
What % of the $17K per job will go back to the DNC thru the unions?
That comes to $21,428 per SUMMER JOB! Sign me up!
Oh wait…… 1.5 billion is Jeffrey Immelt’s bonus for his sacrificing on barry’s jobs counsel. $0 for summer work; just mentoring (whatever that ends up being).
Slave labor
Someone please correct me. I did a quick search to see how many high school students there are. I “think” there are about 17 million. Does this sound right? This thing he just passed is going to create 70,000 paid positions? What are the other 16,930,000 kids going to do?
Good news kids! We got jobs for all of you. Oh, and 35% of you won’t get paid anything. But hey, mentoring..uhh-yeah, ain’t that gonna be a feather in your resume?
“We Can’t Wait” for Barry to be impeached.
The census workers are still playing World of Warcraft.
“we can’t wait for Congress to act”
Said like a true communist / NAZI dictator.
Now room for the rule of law in the United States.
Man…. And I thought Christmas cost me a lot… I guess it cost a lot more…
Only hope is the House Republicans shooting all this crap down, and saying NO! But hold your hand on your a__ waiting for that to happen. The leader of the Majority is a clueless zombie, who will do nothing but thump on his chest and cry, eventually caving in. No Balls on that on!
Same day he announces cuts to the DOD. The youth jobs are for the Occupodders, he is taking over the payroll from Soros and Unions.
In the spirit of cooperation, the state requests that you attend Karl Marx Summer Training and Education Camp where you will be employed as a mentor. Please do not expect compensation as there are no funds for it. You will, however, receive college credits and are encouraged to join an Occupy Pogrom to utilize your free time. $3.00 will be deducted from your state-funded college loan to contribute to our Dear Leader’s re-election campaign, and you could win dinner with the One and her Excellency Queen Moochele, Alec Baldwin and Snooky. Thank you for accepting your new mentoring position! Signed, State Training Board.
I guess the interment camps don’t pay well these days.
whoops…internment
Companies hire summer interns to sort paper clips and man the shredding machine. They really aren’t worth the trouble. The person assigned to baby sit a summer intern is the person the boss finds the most expendable. He’s not going to tie up an important employee with a pimply puppy dog high school kid.
Who know OWS had interns? Who knew they were hiring?
Are all these kids going to be coerced into joining the SEIU?
No doubt this new “jobs” initiative is going to be top heavy with a lot of well paid administrative jobs. (wink wink hint hint)
Oh boy! What a great incentive! Work and not get paid! Wait a minute, isn’t that called slavery?
Once again Barry steals from Peter to pay Paul. Why not just issue these select few a check and be done with it? Save on the administrative costs….which will no doubt include more government employees.
Barry really doesn’t understand what a ‘job’ is…..and what ‘value’ it is supposed to add to a product or service.
I would say just have the house defund it but… well …..
Hugo Chavez would be proud.. 0bama getting the youth to accept jobs provided by the government. How ‘Hugo’ of him. IMPEACH THE TRAITOROUS BASTARD. 0bama’s upcoming stunt to give Russia our Top Secret missile shield technology is beyond impeachable. This tyrant is intentionally weakening the United States, making us ripe for collapse and this is exactly what obama’s puppet master Soros has ordered.
Once again, a Government infusion is a short term Band Aid if even that. This is not an industry that will generate revenue and all it will do is bleed the Tax Payer.
This is Socialism as true as it gets.
It’s just another opportunity for the regime to steal our money and indoctrinate our kids.
110,000 unpaid “jobs”? WTF? Why would a student want an unpaid job? So they can go out and hang around with the OWS imbeciles and complain that they can’t pay back their student loans?
Is this a starting point of obama’s national security force?
“”We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
Maybe some of these new public service workers can be employed going door to door in Democratic neighborhoods registering people to vote.
Just another sham and hole to drop money in -in his on going attempt to bleed this country of its wealth and bankrupt it.
Quick questions: Even with Obuttma trying to gut our military, spend billions on this commie trash program, appoint communists to run government departmetns, doesn’t this scum sucking wanna be dictator still have to get the money from Congress to implement his program of evil and destruction? Doesn’t the House still initiate allocating money for government and can cut off funding? Who controls the House? THE FUCKING REPUBLICANS! Where the hell are these assholes? If Obuttma wants to try all this tyrant crap why haven’t the Republicans stood up and said no more money, go ahead President Smooth Between the Legs and shut down the totally dysfunctional, tryannical government. We will not budge one inch and will fight you to the death. Where are these Republicans that we voted into office to fight these commies to the death? Where are they? WHERE ARE THEY?
Since I’m sure I’ll be paying for this travesty, I want 5 of them little cocksuckers outside my front door, Monday thru Friday, to work at my house this summer. Get ready for a real job you little rat bastards.
This is an example of what the heroes of the American Revolution were going on about. Quite simply….taxation without representation. I pay $1,000′s in property taxes and 80% of it goes to local schools. I’ve paid for MY community’s education system and can voice a grievence when need be. This crapola is simply the federal goverment taking my property (money) away from me and giving it to others. All without me having the ability to have a say so.
It MUST end.