Because what we are now finding out is that Barry "Almighty’s" green jobs training program, which was part of his much ballyhooed stimulus, that has in reality been nothing more than a completed bust, has failed on most of its key jobs measures. And that’s according to a recently conducted internal audit that found it was training workers who already had jobs that didn’t need green energy skills, and was failing to place new enrollees in jobs once they finished the training.
The Labor Department’s inspector general also said grantees who received the green jobs-training money did a very poor job of reporting whatever results were achieved. It pointed out that only a very dismal 38 percent of those who have completed the training got jobs based on it, and an even more dismal 16 percent kept jobs for at least six months, the key measure of success for the program. "Outcomes for participants were far less than originally proposed," the auditors said.
The government earmarked more than $400 million for green jobs training programs, of which $328.5 million has been spent so far. About half of those involved were already working in the energy sector and wanted retraining, and half were potential new energy workers. Oddly enough, but something I suppose should come as a surprise, after all we are talking about Barry, of those workers who already had energy-sector jobs, the auditors said they were retrained, even though they didn’t need it.
"We found no evidence that the incumbent workers in our sample required services or training to keep their job or obtain a new one," the investigators said in their report. Now as to be expected ,the Labor Department challenged the findings, saying that auditors didn’t consider the full progress of those who got training. The department said some of those who got training found jobs before their training was completed and said they should have been counted.
Jane Oates, a Barry hack as well as assistant secretary for employment and training, said as the rest of the training is completed, they expect the numbers to improve. The audit was released by House oversight committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, who requested the update. Mr. Issa said in addition to poor performance records, the green jobs money "served as a slush fund" for the Obama administration to dole out payments to allies "like the National Council of La Raza, the Blue Green alliance and the U.S. Steelworkers Union."
This is the kind of green energy shell game that we have seen play out time after time, and all at taxpayer expense. Vast amounts of taxpayer money continues to be "invested" and at the end of the day there is essentially nothing to show for it. Barry continues to spew all manner of nonsense and we still have a substantial number of people who insist on believing him. Now granted many, blacks in particular, have an ulterior motive, for choosing to believe Barry, but all that means is that the rest of us need to be smart enough to see past the smoke and mirrors. But will we?
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