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Little. lets get rid of the loopholes. there would be a dividend in repatriating these. thats going to give you a temporary boost in employment. i wont argue it wont. id like to see it used more constructively. for example, the federal government always has something like 40 jobs training programs. the graduates do about as well as college graduates do. lets use this money in an investment way that really leaves lasting value. i dont like jobs trainings programs. they sound good. i wish they wor...

And our childrens money because were borrowing from the next generation to pay for this. >> you aen i know that the federal government wastes hundreds of billions each year. >> and there are dozens of jobs training programs which overlap and duplicate each other. >> cutting waste means more accountability. >> we have great federal employees, the vast majority, but you cant manage an organization if you cant control good work. >> now, you heard right. while the defense department and f.a.a. get r...

Training programs take waste to a whole new level. some partic panteds train for jobs that dont exist. others pay for courses in jobs they already have. some funds spent on a contractor who bought videogames. and in one state, workforce agency employees took more than 100 gambling trips to casinos -- in work hours mp the study commissioned by tom coburn raises a lot of questions about your cash being spent on federal job training. and it is no small chunk of change. $18 billion annually invested...

john king, chief national correspondent and host of "jk usa" and sheila behr, former children of -- chairman of the fdic. before we talk about this i want to bring in christine romans to explain why this has been such an important deal in the united states. while ive been out here in cannes, the u.s. has been watching very closely whats going on here and whats been going on in athens, christine. >> theres a growing understanding that u.s. and europe are in it together. anything that is...

im ali velshi in cannes, france. g-20 turned out to be something other than what i and the entire world thought it would be with the crisis in greece and more pressure on the eurozone. here to discuss this and impact on the world economically, politically and financially our chief national correspondent and sheila behr, former children of where they grow americas favorite potatoes. everyone knows idaho potatoes taste great. fdic. before we talk about this i want to bring in christine r...

im gloria borger. john king is off today. thanks for joining us on what turns out to be a very significant day on the campaign trail. mitt romney who has been taking a rather low-key approach to his republican opponents so far today decided to take some jabs at the man whos replaced him as the official frontrunner, texas governor rick perry. and he did it in perrys home state. >> thank you. >> during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to ...

and he did it in perrys home state. >> thank you. thank you. >> during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to his own business resume and then took a shot at people he called career politicians. >> im a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics. dealing with real problems in the real economy. career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply dont know how to get us out. get ready for even more romney vers...

Thanks so much. im sad the games are over. it has been great to watch. now we are -- on to the next games. right? looking forward to london. we will talk about the summer games coming up. >> absolutely. >> elvis stojko, thanks so much from vancouver. thanks for being with us over the past few weeks. >> thanks so much. in closing the unemployment gap, some jobs training programs, targeting inner city neighborhoods and getting promising results.

Vice president, at a job-training initiative at a community college. it sounds to me, it should, and if youre keeping track, just sit back, because the president took office and weve already seen at least nine such programs initiated, costing more than $7 billion. now, that does not include another $20 billion that the president proposed for jobs training programs in various budgets. still the unemployment rate for young people stands at 10.9%, well above the national average. so we thought wed ...