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You Want Change? I Got Change For Ya Right Here – Job Retraining.

wow, that's one enticing looking storefront.
Beginning today, a series of long term policy suggestions that a few enlightened souls would see as real ‘change’ rather than messing about at the edges, while most who like the notion of messing about at the edges would see as radical.
Number 1.
Job Re-training.
There’s an old political motto “When you don’t have a clue about what to do with the economy, push a serious retraining agenda”.
You might recall John McCain’s recent earnest appeal for a big retraining push during the campaign. It was greeted with the usual response for ye olde retraining concept. Total silence. Nobody likes it. Nobody hates it. Nobody believes it will have any effect whatsoever. It’s a great big yawn.
But does it have to be this way? Read the rest of this entry »
