[classicman]

A company I'm involved with got a contract to develop tracking software for a southern city. They wanted to measure the job creation from the stimulus training dollars they got. After a couple of months, they killed the effort, saying the resulting numbers might "confuse the public."

I saw the numbers. No confusion, much ugliness.

This municipality decided that in order to meet the mandate to spend this money fast, they'd better give it all away to local universities and colleges and let them worry about training. So they did, spending something north of $20 million. The mandate to invest quickly was met.

There's no reporting due back from those schools. And they're all public. No private schools got a nickel. Of course private schools have higher job placement records than the public outfits. Go figure.

OK, enough. I confess to having not read all 2,000 pages of this bill. In fact, I wouldn't have known about Section 2521 if a friend hadn't pointed it out to me.

But you've got to wonder how many other toxic paragraphs are threaded through this mammoth thing.

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Just a piece from one man's perspective on the "job creation"