15 November 2013 (03:25 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Muharram 1434/24 Aban 1391/13 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

“It’s a terrible program. It wastes more money than it does any good. Obviously, it’s a cost borne by Idaho businesses throughout Idaho, and employees.”-Wayne Hoffman, Idaho Freedom Foundation

According to the Idaho Statesman, Idaho’s governor, Butch Otter, “beamed” as he helped announce the ground breaking for Clif Bar in Twin Falls.  Otter shouldn’t beam, because he and other state leaders gave Clif Bar $4 million USD, from the Workforce Development Training Fund.

The Idaho Statesman discovered that since 1996 Idaho has given away at least $47 million to companies through the Workforce Development Training Fund.  But many of those companies fail, or fail to hire on the trainees.

Even the Idaho Department of Labor called the results of the WDTF “mixed”.   60% of grants failed to create long term jobs!

Also, 400 people who actually went through job training under WDTF were never hired!

Some failed companies that got WDTF money are Hoku Materials in Pocatello ($650-thousand) and Transform Solar in Nampa ($1.5 million).

 The WDTF “…is financed by employers through an offset to the unemployment insurance tax.”-Idaho Department of Labor

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013