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Program. that's the charge from a republican who says they are wasting $18 billion a year on a job training that's for anything but a j-o-b. martha: i'm martha maccallum. senator tom coburn is fired up about this. he says a new study he commissioned shows that money is going down the drain at an alarming rate. he says the job training is going to travel, lavish meals and video games and making the government bigger. >> the vast majority of money spent for job training, it goes to employ people in job training programs. juan williams, good morning to

Participants ever got a job. so no followup there. expanding current job training would cost another $28 billion over the next 10 years. there is one job opening in the united states for every 3.3 unemployed americans. pretty tough odds. boy, oh boy, this is a huge story today about the facebook ipo. it officially gets started 11:00 trading today. social networking giant, a huge american success story goes public. it's set to hit the market in a couple hours. 900 million users worldwide came from an idea that was con concocted in a dorm room at harvard. it's valued at $100 billion. try to wrap...

The average unemployed person spends 40 minutes a day looking for a job. but they spend three hours per day, in fact, a little over three hours, watching tv. so, the time is there. i think this is a great idea. i think it should go national. >> brenda: mike, do you think it's a great idea? >> no, i think it's a totally bogus statistic, 40 minutes a day looking for a job. this totally defeats the purpose from what i can see. if you want to give unemployment insurance benefits for a fixed amount of time and telling people for a portion of that time, maybe a decent portion, you've he got to go do...

That we've seen. i think they'd be better off lowering the minimum wage and allowing employers to drag some more people into the work force, but, it's, again, it's not as bad as some of the other ideas that have been thrown out there. >> gary b you've heard both sides here, what do you say? >> well, first of all, i haven't changed my mind. 24 hours a week is not a lot. when they're-- you know, contrast to what mike thinks, it was a survey, actually done. they're watching tv three hours a day. as far as spending gasoline and stuff like that, my gosh, take this to the people in manhattan and hav...

Anti-anna winds to hurricane irene. so far, one person is dead and the damage estimates are in the millions and officials say tens of thousands of homes and businesses are still without power. i'm patti ann browne. now back to bulls and bears and for the latest headlines, log on to foxnews.com you're watching the most powerful name in news, fox news channel. channel. >> giving a helping hand before getting a governor handout. a georgia lawmaker pushing a bill, forcing the jobless to volunteer 24 hours a week, before collecting unemployment benefits. and gary b, you say, bring it national, huh?...