Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 05/04/2012
Job Training Cuts in the Republican Budget (click here)
The Bush 2003 “Jobs Tour”: the “real” story? (click here for video)
By Al Kamen
By this time the USA was entrenched in two wars and Bush wanted more tax cuts. We are still paying for both the wars and the tax cuts.
Jobs and Growth Tour
You can keep your Ozzfest and your Lollapalooza. The hottest tour this summer is the Jobs and Growth Tour 2003, starring the monsters of government.
This is from the Office of Budget and Management on April 18, 2012; regarding continued and NEW tax cuts for the wealthy.
Job Training Cuts in the Republican Budget (click here)
Earlier today, President Obama visited Lorain County Community
College in Elyria, Ohio to highlight how federal job training funding is
helping unemployed workers get the skills they need to compete for jobs in
high-demand, high-growth industries.
In communities like Elyria all across the country, federal job
training programs are helping meet a critical need. As manufacturing jobs have
shifted from assembly-line positions to advanced manufacturing, schools like
Lorain County Community College have partnered with non-profits, business, and
government to develop job training programs that help equip dislocated workers
with skills that match employer needs. Many of these programs depend on federal
funding through the Workforce Investment Act, which supports employment
services and training programs that serve millions of workers across the
country each year.
And yet just a few weeks ago, House Republicans passed a budget
resolution that would cut spending for these kinds of services by over 5
percent in 2013 and 19 percent in 2014 – all while showering families making
more than $250,000 per year with over $1 trillion in tax cuts. It’s an approach
that fails the basic test of balance, fairness, and shared responsibility, and
it would be a devastating blow to struggling middle class families in
communities like Elyria across the country. Check out this (click here) chart
to see how your state would be affected by these cuts.
NOW.
What is it going to be; growth or increased poverty, national stagnation and more contraction in the housing market !
