One part of the Stimupalooza was a program to pay teenage “volunteers” for doing a variety of “community service” jobs.
I’m thinking that the reason the program went for teenage “volunteers” was because they weren’t old enough to know that government is unfailingly incompetent.
About 16 hundred St. Louis teens got summer jobs, thanks to the federal stimulus package, but the federal government missed payday. Dozens of the kids did not get their paychecks when they were supposed to. But finally pay day came a little late.
“You know they’re working and busting their butts and not getting paid for it and it’s just not right,” says Shareeka Henderson, mother of 15 year old Breaunna Harbert who has spent her summer mowing yards and picking up litter across the St. Louis area.
“All this time and no money,” says mother Wanda Edwards.
The St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment or “SLATE” received stimulus dollars from the federal government to provide summer jobs for high school students. But Friday was payday, and Breaunna and about 40 of the other young workers got no check and no good explanation. They were told to come back to the SLATE office Saturday morning.
“They told us 10:00,” says Edwards.
“They told us 9:30,” says Henderson. “And then someone comes and puts a sign that says 11:00.”
Someone from the inside of the building posted a sign reading, ‘Slate will be open from 11 to 1pm for any participant to pick up paychecks’
“It’s a government program and it shouldn’t be like this,” says Henderson. “It really shouldn’t.”
She’s right, it really shouldn’t be a government program.
Oh, that’s probably not what she meant.
Found via the Gateway Pundit.
Oh, and if she truly wants to experience “All this time and no money” she should wait until she gets a real job and sees all the taxes taken out of it before she even gets handed her paycheck.