A backwards jobs ‘solution’
Only the most hopeless Obama sycophant can, with a straight face, call this program anything other than a gimmick.
The Obama Administration, and I kid you not I am not making this up, is testing a plan to allow people to work AND get unemployment.
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is looking for states that will experiment with unemployment insurance programs by letting people test a job while still receiving benefits.
"The plan is a key feature of a payroll tax cut package that President Barack Obama negotiated with congressional Republicans in February.
"The Labor Department will open the application process Thursday for 10 model projects across the country. Any state can apply for the 'Bridge to Work' program.
"The plan is modeled after a Georgia program called 'Georgia Works.' Under the plan, workers who have lost jobs can be placed in other temporary jobs as trainees for short periods to retain their skills or gain new ones while receiving jobless assistance. About a third of the time, those workers wind up getting hired full-time."
When you don't have an answer for the nation's No. 1 problem going into an election year, you do things like this. It's not solving the jobs problem; it's getting comfortable with the problem for a long time to come. We don't need to settle in, we need to overcome and move forward.
