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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: American Spirit who wrote (384169)	4/2/2003 12:12:05 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Pork Barrel Training in Massachusetts The Berkshire County Regional Employment Board Inc. announced that they completed their training program that uses part of the $1,000 dollar fee collected from each H-1B visa. This training is supposed to help displaced Americans find jobs once they are armed with new skills. Commonwealth Corporation Project Manager, Alan Marden was very proud that every penny of their $2,003,164 allotment from the H-1B training fund was spent. They also spent $784,246 donated by General Dynamics. The crowd he talked too broke out into laughter when he said that they managed to spend every cent, but the the real joke was that only three people got jobs after their training. In other words, each job cost almost 1 million dollars. Now that's something to laugh about! Their "success" involved training 2,359 people for 28,387 hours of instruction. That means that each person got about 12 hours of training. Are we supposed to believe that some unemployed techies armed with 12 hours of training are going to take jobs back from H-1Bs? It seems that the only ones getting rich from the training fees are the schools that manage to get millions of dollars from the federal government. The stench of scandal gets worse if you consider who is thanked for doling out the pork: Sens. John F. Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy. aka Beavis and Butthead

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