Posted on 04/24/2011 8:31:17 PM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
For years, Jeff Ragsdale was in and out of jail, high on drugs and alcohol, and homeless.
"I've had so many chances, but this time it's really working out. I'm a little more focused than I was in the past," he said.
This weekend, he was part of a team of chefs from DC Central Kitchen who are busy boiling 6,000 eggs for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
After many failed attempts to get clean and hold a steady job, Ragsdale applied to DC Central Kitchen's Culinary Job Training program. He's one of hundreds of chefs who have graduated from the program, which is geared toward helping formerly incarcerated and homeless adults get back on their feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
"I've had so many chances, but this time it's really working out. I'm a little more focused than I was in the past," he said."
Video at the link
So many crooks and thugs at this White House, it’s hard to tell which ones need to be relocked up at the end of day.
This program has directly stolen slots in the WH kitchen from culinary schools’ students on a standard post-high school educational track, throughout the Northeast and MidAtlantic.
Every slot/internship given to the ex-cons at taxpayer expense is one less slot available to young adults who are on the straight and narrow paying or borrowing their own way through college.
How boring.... I mean... if you got the straight and narrow adult.... you couldn't even feel good about yourself at the end of the day. /s
Oh, but he's a little more focused now than he was in the past!
Forget those kids who work hard and play by the rules!
LOL Now if he could just get a job in the field. Alot of chefs are unemployed thanks to the Obamaconomy.
Now if he could just get a job in the field. Alot of chefs are unemployed thanks to the Obamaconomy.
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