“Stimulus” Spending Creating Unpaid Jobs In California
What could be worse than spending millions on jobs that last less than a week in Oregon? How about millions on jobs without pay in California?
Students working in a summer youth program funded by federal stimulus dollars tell CBS 5 Investigates they have not been paid the money they are owed. At least one instructor also said he is going unpaid.
All are working for a program called the Oakland Green Civic Campaign, which is one of 13 summer programs funded in Oakland to serve low-income youth and young adults who meet stringent federal income and residency guidelines.
The programs are administered by the Oakland Private Industry Council (PIC).
Students Kiyomi Cox and Donald Biagas work in a culinary program that’s part of the Green Civic Campaign. They enjoy learning to work as chefs, but say after six weeks of working they still haven’t received their paychecks.
You can bet that Obama will no doubt count these jobs in California and Oregon in any total used to champion the impact of his “stimulus” deficit spending, but the idea that these jobs are having any sort of an economic impact is laughable.
Remember, the “stimulus” is a huge chunk of the nearly $2 trillion in deficits Obama has run up during his administration to date. We’ve yet to see the tax increases that will be necessitated by that deficit spending, and when those tax increases hit we’ll likely be plunged down into an even deeper recession than the one we’re already in no matter how many stimulus-funded, week-long temp. jobs and unpaid volunteer jobs Obama’s deficit spending has created.
