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To: GraceZ who wrote (24597)	10/17/2004 3:14:42 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Lol, you are triggering my 70's nostalgia. "I'd like 78 cents worth of premium, please!" Those were the days. I agree with what you are saying, the world is the world and you have to live in it.

To: GraceZ who wrote (24597)	10/20/2004 3:32:14 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Grace, the jobs program in the area I grew up in was very successful. Don't think it was called CETA, but it was a govt jobs program. People from the inner city, got jobs that gave them excellent experience to launch into something better in life. Hard-working, poor people from the suburbs were given an opportunity to get out of their situation so they could get to college. The experience you outlined was completely opposite from what our local area had. It was an extremely successful program in our region. Maybe the problem was with the regional manager of your area (or with CETA itself), but it certainly is incorrect to say that all govt job programs aren't successful. We had a huge success with the one in our area. Put a lot of people to work, connected the unemployed with the workers, and gave poor people a chance to get out of their situation, and gave young students a chance to earn money for college. Wildly successful program. The people that went through the program did quite well in life. Completely opposite of what you described. Maybe this particular one I describe was an improved job program over what CETA was - it was a job program in the 80s not the 70s. Maybe they learned from the mistakes of the 70s. Regards, Amy J