Empathy At Work

Boston Herald The state Department of Transitional Assistance will be using some of Massachusetts’ $1.3 million in Obama administration cash for jobs for clients’ children ages 14 to 24 who meet specific criteria, including:

• Lacking basic skills.

• Pregnant or parenting.

• School dropout.

• Homeless or runaway.

• Court-involved or an “offender.”

• An English as a Second Language learner or an immigrant.

Criminal offenders, teen moms, dropouts, runaways and other wayward youths will score summer jobs with federal stimulus cash as most Bay State kids desperately scramble to land coveted seasonal gigs in a tight economy.

“To me, it sounds like the federal government is rewarding bad behavior,” said state Sen. Richard R. Tisei (R-Wakefield).

Listen kid, I know you got straight A's this year and busted your ass doing it. You must not have been paying attention on November 4th though. Working hard is so Old America. Next year rob somebody, drop out of school, and knock up some chick. Oh, and have zero discernable skills. Then maybe I can find a job for you.