The taxpayers have spent over $100 Billion dollars on their numerous agencies that overlap each other.

Do people know that there are over 50 agencies?......All with our taxes.

Taxes used for offices and staff doing the same thing.

They have names such as CETA, JTPA, AYES, MDTA, YACC, HIRE and on and on and on.

None of them work......NONE.

They make promises and can't keep them.....The only thing they keep is THEIR job.

We can't afford the waste. We're broke, remember ?

First notice that the report was funded by the Koch Bros.-established conservative Cato Institute. Koch Industries, who got sweetheart deals behind the scenes with the Cheney national energy plan written by the energy and chemical companies, is one of the nation's largest polluters of oil and chemicals like benezine. Under Cheney, huge EPA fines imposed under the Clinton Administration, were greatly reduced.

Also the article refers to the Republican Hoover Great Depression where the Republican response to the corrupt Wall St. meltdown was to DO NOTHING resulting in 25% (conservatively) unemployment, business and bank failures, and home and farm foreclosures. People starved, committed suicide, and died from neglect and lack of access to healthcare (but not the rich).

Thanks to FDR, the government intervention and jobs programs like the WPA, CCC, TVA, etc. that the GOP scoffed at, railed against screeching communism, marxism, socialism, etc. (sound familiar), resulted in reducing the unemployment to 9% in just his first of three terms. In short, despite the GOP howls, millions of Americans were helped which, in turn, helped the country. Another current parallel: the GOP wailed about government spending and a balanced budget, so when FDR and the Democrats cut spending to balance the budget, the recovery stalled. It took WWII, which the GOP opposed until we were attacked by the Japanese, to stimulate the economy with war material production.

We know that the GOP "cut and grow" plan is a joke just like their bogus Reagan-era to present "trickle down economy" that made the filthy rich filthy richer. The latest plague of baggies and "born-again deficit hawks" wanted to cut $68 billion from mostly social programs that Wall St. indicated would have cost 700,000 jobs. Bush created the fewest jobs, 1.1 million over eight years, while losing five million manufacturing jobs. Thanks to the Bush Great Recession, over eight million jobs were lost at a rate of 600,000 monthly during the last half of 2008 into the first three months of 2009 or before the Obama ARRA went into effect creating more jobs that Bush. The GOP also opposed the bail out of the auto industry on partisan grounds which would have cost over 1.5 million innovative manufacturing jobs plus an addition seven-to-one jobs in automaker-dependent jobs in the private sector.

To the Republicans, unemployment benefits are welfare while the $4 trillion, 10-12-year, non-jobs-creating tax breaks for the rich were called "job creators" though the GOP cannot point to a single job created, not for the working class anyway. Under Bush, there were 1931 top secret companies with 854,000 government workers and 265,000 contractors costing 30% more. Their 435-plus, GOP-approved war-profiteers in Iraq and Afghanistan failed in their nation-building while posting over $8 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse and $6.6 billion of Iraqi funds were also stolen. All being protected from oversight and accountability by the GOP (Greed On Parade) in Congress.

Rather than money going to help the poor and working class, they have already successfully fought to keep the subsidies for the oil companies posting record profits and agri-business and their military-industrial-congressional and "bridge to nowhere" pork projects. For the poorly-educated, Republicans have historically NEVER represented the working class whom they confuse, manipulate and exploit while picking their pockets. They scoff at job centers claiming that people can go on the Internet to find jobs. Well, as a five-year, employment specialist, I can say that most jobs though posted on the Internet do not always result in employment, not above entry-level. Also, poor people, older workers, including the elderly, may not have computers or the Internet or do not have the tech skills that many take for granted. Dealing with poor people, inner-city, welfare mothers and high school dropouts, job applicants often do not have reading, writing, computer skills, a resume, or job-search skills or even a way to get around.

Affluent Republicans, who do not work with the poor or needy or have isolated themselves from the hardships of everyday Americans, have shown consistently that they do not care. Their thoughtless willingness to cut funding for programs for the poor and working class while giving massive amounts of taxpayer money to the rich and coprporations shows how morally bankrupt they are. Judgment Day cannot come soon enough for these selfish, greedy people, but it is coming. No amount of GOP spin or burdening wealth will save them.

Heard of any jobs programs from Republicans other than more tax breaks for the rich and corporations who are making out great as the working class suffer? Name one law passed that benefitted specifically the working class under the previous neo-con-artists Bush-Cheney. In comparison, Clinton created more jobs, had a better economy and prosperty for Americans and less debt than Reagan, Bush I and Bush, the lesser combined.

I think anyone looking at the WPA will agree that it was successful in its aims. Although many of its members were not intensely productive, the program built large amounts of infrastructure, reduced unemployment (through direct hiring, arguably the best gvt approach during recessions), and was not that expensive since it did not pay people that well. But jobs programs have had mixed records, and the Nixon/Ford/Carter push to expand local governance was clearly too much of a "success." Temporary, federal, "recession" jobs programs make sense.

skint: Jun. 23, 2011 - 11:46 PM EST

None of them work......NONE.

If that's the case, how is it you can post your gibberish? Did you build the internet? Did you come up with the technology for all the wonders of the 21st century? How much have you contributed to our society? You obviously don't work because you post here every day all day.

Once Bitten: Jun. 24, 2011 - 12:20 PM EST

How do articles like this ever see the light of day? Stick it where the sun don't shine! This is the same mentality that couldn't comprehend why the people of the 9th Ward didn't fill up their SUV's with gas and go to the Hilton when Katrina hit.... not everybody has a rich daddy!

Not sure what news footage YOU were watching, but I saw plenty of vehicles parked(floating) in the streets of the 9th Ward that I sure couldn't afford. The reason they stayed is the same reason the jobs programs don't work. They are lazy and don't want to help themselves, they know the Govt. will come save them. Before you throw the race card, I am aware that the majority of people on welfare are caucasian and they are lazy as well. It is not a race thing, it is a culture thing. They have been raised for generations to expect the Govt. handout. The real reason entitlement spending is so high is that they are somewhat reliable liberal voters, when you can sufficiently bribe them with cigs and beer to go cast a ballot.

There is already a jobs program in place. It is called the free market. In Georgia, for example there is a farm labor shortage. It is estimated that 11000 to 15000 farm workers are needed to fill the void left by the illegal Aliens who fled the State. There is one catch, and that is that work, hard work is required and the pay is the Federal minimum wage. Let's see how many of these suffering "poor" line up to earn a day's work for a day's pay. I'll bet none.

Let them starve if they won't work. If you do work and are not making enough money to support your family, by all means you should receive assistance in the form of food, but if you refuse to work, you and your family should starve. You asked for it. No, you demanded it.

Rocky1: Jun. 24, 2011 - 2:23 PM EST

It is amazing that the dems blame Bush for this situation, when the the rate was so much lower before Obama became president.

It WASN'T that much lower under Bush. When Bush left office, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. It's now 9.1%. 1.3% diffeerence is not THAT much lower!!!

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