HYPOCRISY ALERT! Bush wants $1 billion to employ Iraqis - makes major cuts to US job programs!

NYT
1/6/07

President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools and cleaning streets, according to American officials who are piecing together the last parts of the initiative...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/world/middleeast/07prexy.html?em&ex=1168405200&en=fdde356de88d4288&ei=5087%0A


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Bush FY 2007 Budget Calls for Major Cuts and Consolidation in All Major Employment and Training Programs

Effective and meaningful job training programs and income support for jobless workers combined with job search assistance are key components of a comprehensive good jobs strategy. This has never been truer, as the nation has struggled with two years of job loss followed by three years of inadequate growth, real wages that are lower today than they were four years ago and the loss of millions of good paying jobs to trade and offshoring.

These troubling labor market trends have only re-emphasized the importance of and the need for aggressive investment in our national job training and jobless worker programs. Unfortunately, President George W. Bush’s 2007 budget proposal not only fails to make these pro-jobs programs a priority, it once again calls for major cuts and consolidation in the nation’s major employment and training programs.

Cuts to Current WIA and Employment Service Programs for FY 2007

Total inflation-adjusted cuts during the Bush Admin: - $2.4 billion (-31.3 percent)
Total inflation-adjusted cuts compared to FY 2006: -$895 million (-14.3 percent)

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/bushwatch/2007budget.cfm

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Umm...

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What about this does not make sense!? :sarcasm:

Now I'm all for providing Iraqis with a jobs program to help rebuild hope and establish a working infrastructure; I just wonder why the same priorities don't seem to exist in your budget for American's Mr. Bush!?

What hypocrisy! :grr: Answer that please.

any country anywhere that will give you what you want into perpetuity and is paid for by the US taxpayer is your kind of country.

Meaning--neither * or any of them give a damn about the US. We exist to serve their experience in life, not the other way round.

...if there were more domestic violence and class warfare. Try harder...

for failure. In the midst of a civil war bush is going to wave cash and jobs into the faces of the Iraqi's and they're all come running and just drop their AK-47's and R.P.G's and go out to the roads and dig up those I.E.D's...

The US. death-toll and the continued money wasted because one man is hell-bent on securing the oil-flow in Iraq for US. Oil Companies.

the rebuilding all along, instead of Halliburton. However, it is an interesting point, thanks.

Now convince the Iraqis to stop killing themselves and us and become a civilized nation.

inclination to wage a civil war? At least not in the same measure. As for us being civilized, I think we're on our way with a Democratic congress/Senate. ;)

K & R

Most of them don't seem to mind what's going on, judging by the voting numbers each time; especially 2004.

It seems just in this past year, the Blogosphere has risen to such a level that we (collectively) have an influence on a few select folks in the MSM that actually listen - like Jack Cafferty.

Be it the disparity in Shrub's proposal or anything else which effects a broad range of We The People - if we have a unified message; just maybe the American public will get some of the information.

At least it's quick.

30% (at minimum) of the gross amount. Bank on it.

Any takers?

EDit...America is kind of short of cash due to your elective wars and tax cuts. Maybe you can raise an extra billion in a $500,000.00 a plate fund raiser.

Not that it would be much help right now... but, isn't that in their constitution?

Most noteably, the fact that Bush brought in contractors to do jobs that could be done by Iraqis.
Without jobs...they turned to the highest bidder, including insurgency.
However, to offer jobs now IMHO is foolhardy.
We have killed enough people to effectively piss everyone off and I doubt offering cab driving or construction jobs as a bandaid to the murder of their family members and destruction of their country will work.
Again, George proves to be a day late and a dollar short.

KBR and Halliburton have been getting paid and obviously not doing the work. Meanwhile, all the talented and skilled Iraqis have fled the country so there aren't enough management types to supervise the reconstruction.