Wants 4.5 million new apprenticeships with nearly the same budget

[struggle4progress]

Kevin Breuninger
4 Hours Ago

... Trump wants to create 5 million new apprenticeships over the next five years, which would be almost 10 times the total that exist now. But the money he has appropriated to apprenticeships is roughly the same as it was under Obama. The budget for fiscal 2016 appropriated $90 million for apprenticeships; that number is set to increase only to $95 million as part of Congress' omnibus budget for 2017 ...

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/15/trump-wants-a-10-fold-increase-in-apprenticeships-in-five-years-with-the-same-budget.html

[Eugene]

1. I was wondering about the funding behind this EO.

A phony photo op at best, but sabotage is a plausible scenario here.

[procon]

2. Republicans do math like five year olds.

“We'll just get more money from the money store.”

"If you give me a genie lamp like Aladdin, I'll give you anything you want."

"Money costs too much."


Q: Why didn’t the quarter roll down the hill with the nickel?
A: Because it had more cents.


Just sayin'