haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) (08/07/84)
Recently Prime Minister Turner announced the 'First Chance' program to
provide youth with initial job training. It's supposed to provide
training for zillions of unemplyed youth so they won't be turned down
from a job just because they don't have any experience.
What good is this program???? Besides wasting humungous amounts of
govt money (I seem to recall $1 billion after a couple of years) all
it does is provide youth with training for non-existent jobs. The
guys with experience will just get shuffled bit further back in the
unemployment line.
Shouldn't the first priority be job *creation*, not redistribution?
Start public projects or something (I can think of quite a few streets
that need repaving...)
Tom Haapanen
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