Obama’s Executive Order Youth Jobs Plan Includes 110,000 Unpaid Positions, Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers

Weasel Zippers ^ | 1/5/12 | zip

[Nachum]

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.

[Nachum]

Full title: Obama’s Executive Order Youth Jobs Plan Includes 110,000 Unpaid Positions, Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers $1.5 Billion…

[Track9]

Remember when Clinton had half wits walking airport terminals..

[kosciusko51]

Remember when Clinton had half wits walking airport terminals..

It was better than having half-wits walking the residential portion of the WH.

[Onelifetogive]

Remember when Clinton had half wits walking airport terminals..

They are still at the airport, they are just in uniform now...

[formosa]

subsidized failure

[Graewoulf]

Another reason to impeach Bolshevik Chairman Obama.

[Baynative]

People like Obama who have never held a job, or his wife who never had to really report to the job given her through political cronyism, don't have any concept of the learning process that comes with going out and risking rejection to put money in your pocket.

They just don't understand that something not earned has no value.

[FlyVet]

110,000 Unpaid Positions

What's the definition of "unpaid"?

Am I to believe that the Obama Children will flock to "unpaid" positions?

Not buying it.

[Bellflower]

110,000 Unpaid Positions

What's the definition of "unpaid"?

Like cultist who work out of a misguided sense of worship. Likely the last thing they want is to shell out money that could be better, in their minds, shelled out to themselves.