Rod Blagojevich: “I believe that a short-term investment in summer jobs programs for kids, for teenage kids in disadvantaged communities…”

“I believe that a short-term investment in summer jobs programs for kids, for teenage kids in disadvantaged communities is a long-term investment, not only in the next generation of Americans, but also in terms of protecting the taxpayers' pocketbook. Because if we put our money into the kids early enough and give them a chance to learn the habits of work, we are probably, in all likelihood, creating a workforce and a next generation of Americans that are going to value work and not hang around the street corner, not get arrested and not cost the taxpayers dollars that they ultimately pay to incarcerate them because at a turning point in their lives they have taken the wrong path.”