Stimulus!: Cosmetology and Massage Schools Win Big Under Obama
by PubliusFrom Florida’s Herald Tribune:
When President Barack Obama touted the passage of the $787 billion federal stimulus bill a year ago, he highlighted billions of dollars for higher education to help retrain workers for the new economy.
But an examination of government records shows that some of the biggest recipients of $17 billion in federal educational grants have been online universities, cosmetology academies, massage therapy schools and other profitmaking career training schools – and not traditional public universities and colleges.
Many of the for-profit schools have spotty graduation and placement records, critics contend, and do not provide the educational foundation of traditional colleges and universities.
In Sarasota County, the Sun State College of Hair Design, the Sarasota School of Massage Therapy and Sarasota’s Fashion Focus Hair Academy combined to receive $689,000 in Pell Grant stimulus funding in 2009, more than the New College of Florida, a state-sponsored school with more than 800 students in Sarasota, and the Ringling College of Art & Design, a private, nonprofit school with about 1,200 students that is also in Sarasota.
Two of the top four statewide recipients for the stimulus Pell Grants were Rhodes Colleges, a division of Corinthian Colleges Inc, which runs an online college called Everest University, and Keiser University, a career training school with a branch in Lakewood Ranch.
Rhodes collected $35 million in stimulus Pell Grants in 2009, more than the University of Florida, Florida State and the University of South Florida combined.
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STIMULATE THIS:
(Bloomberg) — U.S. employers won’t hire enough workers this year to lower the jobless rate much below the level of 9.7 percent reached in February, three Obama administration economic officials said today.
10% IS THE NEW NORM!
Isn't that special!
How do you think he intends to get Congress to pass anything after "healthcare?" A "happy ending for all" will be Obamas new mantra.
Didn't Barrack promise, that if he passed his Stimulus, that unemployment wouldn't go over 8%.
Oops! Wrong again.
Call Congress, and let them hear your outrage now… 1-202-224-3121 Why we still have time.
Why am I not surprised by any of this? I suppose this is just more of that "redistribution of wealth" crap we keep hearing about. For all of you wondering what that would look like…take a good look. Federal grant money going to "for profit" companies to "help" unsuspecting people into dead end jobs. <sarc> I'm so inspired by this that it makes me want to pay higher taxes! </sarc>
We would have more luck giving them gift certificates to whore houses when the vote was scheduled – but I'm calling and writing – been doing it for years – I will never stop. Unless I run for office in which case I will look forward to reading letters from my fellow citizens.
With the UR only 5% among college educated whites, that 9.7% number will smell like very ripe Texas armadillo road-kill on a humid August morning come next November.
I picked keiser u. in the final 4 office pool.
Baby don't sweat it (Don't sweat it),
You're not cut out to hold a job.
Better forget it (Forget it),
Who wants their hair done by a slob?
Now your bangs are curled, your lashes whirled, but still the
world is cruel.
Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school!
Posted this before but it seems more relevant now:
Reporter:
“Speaker Pelosi can you please give us a sense of what you are willing to do in order to pass Obama’s health care plan?”
Pelosi:
“Well I’ve done everyone that is willing, and my knees are tired, I don’t know what else to do . . .”
Reporter:
“Have you tried teabagging?”
Pelosi:
“No. But I can assure you that Representative Frank is on top of the situation and is hard at work.”
Reporter:
“Thats fantastic to hear that that part of the plan is going smoothly . . . How are you handling the female “no” votes?”
Pelosi:
“That’s easy. Attorney General Reno is locked and loaded, in full leather, and ready to roll.”
Reporter:
“What will you do if these tactics do not work?”
Pelosi:
“Well I’ve found their are many areas of entry, we will use lubrication if we have too but we will get this passed.”
Reporter:
“Again, Speaker Pelosi, if all of this activity fails what is next?”
Pelosi:
“Have you seen the movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?”
Reporter:
“Great movie. Who will play the mexicans?”
Pelosi:
“The Unions.”
Stimulus = social justice alias
Haven't scrubbed this list in a while but here's some toll free numbers…use em…some are lobbyists…lol
TOLL FREE
Congressional Switchboard Numbers
800-833-6354
866-340-9281
877-762-8762
866-808-0065
888-355-3588
866-220-0044
800-862-5530
877-851-6437
800-417-7666
Hey, side-boob-shot on Big?
anyway, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh dot com:
Call the Capitol Switchboard: 1-877-762-8762
Code Red: http://www.nrcc.org/CodeRed/targets/
Its the country "Going Galt"……we will not be hiring in our small business till the economy is friendly to small business…and that don't mean no friggin tax credit.
Tigers' women, they needed more training
I guess this is what one is to expect………….remember Joe Biden is on top of all of this to ensure it is spent appropriately. Who wants to be that ACORN is probably involved in these organizations somehow??
This is an outrage at best, but then everyday we get another dose of how are tax dollars are being misappropriated!!
Where are the Republicans and especially the McCains of the party that are so fiscally responsible. Seems the silence is deafening……………..do they really not have any gumption and still want to call these clowns – "My friends on the other side of the aisle."
Trust me they are not our friends and for you RHINOs to continue referring to them as such (and I don't care about the BS of being polite). Do you think they give a rat's azz about anything you have to say. Take off the gloves and let's get this over with…………..we are sick and tired of you playing foot-sees with these jerks. Get serious about the business of this country and quit playing games……….this is OUR country they are ruining.
Why haven't the Republicans filed suit against the Slaughter Conspiracy to usurp the Constitution……….they ought to be filling briefs NOW…………….why wait until the crime is committed when they have overtly tipped their hand to their lawless dealings. Get real about this or we will vote all of your RHINOS out the fall along with the crap known as the Democratic Party.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE??
Now thats funny.
Gives a whole new meaning, to the product "Tiger Balm".
Another reason why the Fed Gov should not be in the business of wealth redistribution!!!!!
Thank you for your help. With the money Washington is spending, we need to save what little we do have left.
Thank You, WeWeed_Up
washed my mouth out with soap, couldn't wait for the jokes to die out when that mess was ripe,
now here I am contributing to its resurrection, Go Figure ?
This is why the Illinois General Assembly spent about a half an hour last week debating the regulation of hair braiding and the licensing of those who braid hair.
What would you expect from the ban of thugs??? they need to look good you know.. look at Pelosi, she constantly nneds to PUFF up that face… and well OBLABLA and his wife are constantly going out to dinner on OUR dime… so whats the BIG deal?? tongue and cheek….. too funny this band of FOOLS!
This just means we may not get smarter as a nation, but we sure will have nice hair!
Speaking of Rush, did y'all hear him say" the healthcare bill is the
longest suicide note in history" today. Cracked me up!
And the losers at Fed announced employment picture "stabilizing". yeah – at almost 10 frickin percent!!
Until we see the deficit and are all wearing fright wigs!
The Federal Reserve System stole it to prop up EU banks.
Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
Rhodes College
•The college has received the largest gift in its history—$35 million—to build the Paul Barret, Jr. Library, a magnificent building that has re-centered the campus and created a new hub where students connect to each other, to the faculty and to the world.
This is from the President of Rhodes College. Strange how they received 35 million in stimulus money and the exact same amount from a gift. Was that gift from Obamama??
Read it for yourself and how they have enrolled more blacks then before. http://www.rhodes.edu/about/367.asp
Don't Mess with de ZOHAN!
How do you deal with the weightlessness? -The Jerk
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In the Milwaukee area, a handful of senior photo studios got stimulus money – to take yearbook photos?!?!?
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