Elijah Cummings: “There are so many people out of work. I was speaking to a colleague from Ohio, and he was saying hundreds of thousands…”

“There are so many people out of work. I was speaking to a colleague from Ohio, and he was saying hundreds of thousands of jobs are cut, gone. And he talked about how important it is to have job training, so if opportunities come, people will be in a position to take advantage of it. It is one thing to have opportunity, it is another thing to be prepared to take advantage of it. It just seems to me as we see so many of our relatives and our neighbors out of a job, 9 million of them in our country, it seems to me that, if anything, we would be trying to increase the funds for job training so that people will be prepared for opportunity were it to come along. But yet and still, and the President keeps telling us jobs are coming, we have not seen them yet, but assuming he is right, if they are not prepared, what difference does it really make?”