Jay Dickey: “I would like to make a case here that the Summer Job Program is obviously just a cash distribution system that our…”

“I would like to make a case here that the Summer Job Program is obviously just a cash distribution system that our Government has set up. It is a 12-week program. I see it because I am in the restaurant business and we have a surge of business during the summer, and we go out and try to find people to work for us during that period of time, just the period of time that coincides with being out of school. What we find is we find ourselves competing with the Federal Government and we cannot cut it. We cannot match it, because the Federal Government does not require anything of the people who they give money to other than you be at your home, we will come pick you up or come to the office somewhere around--come into the city hall, or whatever it might be, somewhere around 9 o'clock, and we are going to have you go out and stand in some ditch and act like you are doing something. Now, what harm is what? What harm is that? First of all, let us look at it from the standpoint of our Government. It is wasting money. It is saying we want to give you sugar rather than protein and calcium. We do not want to give you any skills.”