Michelle Malkin has an interesting article up today.  First lets talk about jobs:

We’ve endured five months of bogus Obama math — most recently on display with Dear Leader’s reclassification of the United States as one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. The MSM was finally getting wise to the phony baloney stimulus numbers — and here comes the White House to dump a new load of numerical B.S. into the mix.

600,000 new jobs!

125,000 summer jobs for the yoots!

Presto-change-o!

What’s a yoot?  Well, all you have to do is watch My Cousin Vinny for that answer:  a “yoot” is “youths”(I love that movie!).   So the stimulus money is going to help 125,000 youths find summer jobs?  Well, only if they remember to wake up in time to go:

These economically disadvantaged young people will participate in summer-employment programs funded under the federal stimulus plan. The programs aim to get them ready for employment through training and job experience.

After work-readiness training, each participant will be placed in a summer job with a governmental or nonprofit agency. The programs are for people 16 to 24, with an emphasis on those who are not in school.

Every county in New Jersey is participating, with $20.8 million in economic-stimulus money divided among them.

According to Barbra Weir, who oversees Burlington County’s Summer Youth Employment Program……

Weir said the 60 participants in the program, 52 of whom have dropped out of school, were simply not "work ready."

Many of them don’t know, for example, that when they’re sick and can’t go to work, they need to notify a supervisor, Weir said. They don’t know how to dress for work, or that they shouldn’t have an iPod in their ears when answering phones.

The stimulus money funds each participant’s salary through the county. No money is paid to the work site. Each site with an available job created the job specifically for the summer youth program; none of the participants will fill an existing position.

This all sounds good, right?  Well, what about all the kids who didn’t quit school, know how to work, know to call in sick and the proper way to answer the phones?  What about the ones that just spent thousands of dollars getting an education?  What about the College Grads this year?

These grads have student loans to pay off.  Most of these loans come from the government.  Wouldn’t it be important to make sure these kids get jobs so they can begin to repay that debt?  That debt isn’t just their debt – it is all of our debts as it’s our tax money that they borrowed.  (Not to mention that the $20.8 Million dollars could probably pay for all of the kids in that program to go to a trade school and get an education that will help them for longer than a summer!)

The government is creating jobs for people who didn’t do everything possible to better their lives.  Why not help the people who have proven they will finish what they start?  One reasoning is that doing this for these kids will help them stay out of trouble and not get into gangs.  Great – lets put the college educated people in those gangs, since that will be the only place for them to go.  Think about it – who do you want in charge of gangs?  High school drop outs or college grads?   How about a college grad with a bachelors in law – that person should be able to keep the gang out of the jails for quite sometime. 

Why couldn’t they have the bleeding hearts when people had jobs?  There is a nationwide unemployment rate of 9.4% right now and the stimulus money is going to kids who have only proven to us that they know how to quit. 

One of the criteria for getting one of these jobs is being jobless for 6 months.  So, in 6 months time they didn’t learn how to dress for work, calling the supervisor when sick or not wearing iPods at work? 

A good friend of mine is a high school drop out from one of the poorest sections of “capital city” (It’s known to all of us a “dog patch” because all the kids there are ‘raised by wolves’) and she knew how to get a job, keep a job and stay at a job.  There is no excuse for not knowing any of that.