What Wasting Time and Taxdollars Looks Like
The Governor's Office just proclaimed that several government employees will be trained the by the ACT about how to read certain statistics to give communities a merit badge.
From the press release:
A leadership team from Kentucky representing workforce development, education and economic development will participate in the academy during the next 12 months. ACT, which is usually associated with educational testing, is establishing a national baseline for state workforce standards that each state can build on through its Certified Work Ready Communities program. The academy gives Kentucky leaders the opportunity to collaborate with other state leaders on workforce development strategies.
"This certification will assure employers already located in Kentucky as well as those looking to call Kentucky home that a community is committed to providing businesses with the skilled workers needed to fill the jobs of today and tomorrow. We can validate the skill levels of workers in a community and use it as an economic development tool," said Crystal Gibson, chair of the Kentucky Work Ready Communities Review Panel and vice president of Communications and Public Affairs at Citi Group.
Got that?
Now a bunch of bureaucrats can award a badge so that some companies -- the kind that don't feel like doing due-diligence on their own investments -- can...well, are there any companies that are that lazy that would actually be expanding?
Kentucky will get the additional benefit of wasting tax dollars on these government employees to spend their time learning and administering and encouraging and filling out paperwork on this near-worthless program.
At least it will be time they are unable to devote to picking winners and losers with tax credits?
