re: Louisiana to require job training for thousands of food stamp recipients

A whole lot of misinformation in this thread. These job skills training courses and classes are already being held. Many of them are in large classrooms with a lot of empty chairs. The classes will be held one way or the other. The employees will be paid to help them regardless.

The difference is that a huge faction of people will simply not show up. Their laziness and apathy will result in a net savings to the taxpayer because they will be disqualified for benefits. Even if they go in and comply, they'll lose their rights to the benefits for the weeks in which they were disqualified.

The other funny thing is that this only became a political hot potato when Jindal finally decided not to request the transfer as he left office. Almost 8 years of asking for it, and we're up in arms for it now only because it's a Democratic Governor. At first he was going to ask for the waiver and he was excoriated. Then he's going to go ahead and stop asking for it, and he's excoriated.

Look I think I'd rather a conservative in office and I am a conservative. But let's not hyperventilate here when it appears this entire issue was something Jindal used as a nice little hand-grenade for Edwards to have to deal with.

As if the budget mess wasn't enough...