 death, I'm saying you're back and you're worth the skill in training these jobs and the government has to help more and the private sector and everybody together. We've got a lot of people that we need a lot of help and we need from everybody. Just did. This is Betty Walls. Most of her process is students and they have mastered the equipment. She's working on a 50-page document and she's moving paragraphs from page 2 to page 38. She's working on a 50-page project and a document that she has and she's updating that map on where I'll tell you, I'll take you in my glass any time. President, these ladies start from the beginning and now all of them have been placed on jobs and will be starting work soon, am I right? And they're on their way. All they need is some money and some help to prove what they can do. Isn't that right? A thousand, thousand, thousand times. Mr. President, do programs like this need some federal money as well to get going? Yes, and this is what we met last night and what I was talking about. The using of federal funds in collaboration with the private sector with the community and all and what our job training program is all about. Aiming it at areas and aiming it for the jobs that are available and open those areas and Boston has become one of the centers of high technology. You won't be seeking to cut any of this What? You won't be seeking to cut any of this when you freeze them. No, what we originally cut was CETA but that was more than made up by the private sector and our own job training program where we think it is superior to CETA is that out of CETA on the whole only about 18 cents out of the dollar actually went to training and our one job program that has already passed we figured that more than 70 cents out of every dollar is going to go into training and so what we've been trying to do is make a change into what we think are more efficient ways to get the job done. Mr. President, some of the officials here and the digital plants complain that because of the cuts in things like government development grants and investment bonds that they don't have the resources before you came in? Well, there is one group that had a grant has the grant still except that it has never been able to get a client for the building that it wanted to put up here in one of the centers and under the law as it was passed and long before we got there there comes a time if they cannot produce a client in which then that grant is withdrawn. I don't know what the status of it is right now. It has not been withdrawn as yet. Mr. President, as you know you're in an area of high unemployment for those who may not have seen the speech last night what can you tell those unemployed people in this particular area, not as a building but in the surrounding neighborhood? What I said last night and apparently in a poll taken after the speech a great majority of the people believed that we are on the mend. It is true that in all the recessions we've ever had the last thing that improves is unemployment. We have a different situation than maybe some of the previous or earlier recessions this has been coming on for some time it isn't unique to this particular period but we have an unemployment situation that is only part recession if the recession were ended tomorrow we would find that in this country there is a need for just what we're seeing here for retraining because we're in a great transition period. There are some people that will never go back to the jobs they had but those jobs will no longer exist but there will be new jobs and all of you seem to take it the wrong way when I say it but again let me refer to any Sunday metropolitan newspaper and peruse the help-wanted ads when I say that you distorted as somewhat you've indicated that I'm trying to say that there are people who don't want work no it isn't that at all if you look at them here in a time of great unemployment our employers looking for people to work and the reason those ads are there is because we still have not met the problem of training people for the job skills that need to be filled that they're advertising for in the last two years some 3 million new people entered the job market there weren't people laid off from other jobs they are newcomers to the job market and we have not been producing at the rate we should the new jobs to take care of that upsurge right here I've just been handed a message from the computer the date and then good afternoon Mr. President welcome to the high technology training center America is on the mend Americans can still pull together for the common good that's in quotation I shall thank you very much we can and we're going to there are no more questions I'm sorry Sam that's enough please well as I said last night we know it hasn't been easy ever since we've been there they're going to be legitimate differences of opinion we're going to continue to work with them and as I said in a bipartisan way I was quite heartened by that film they made some weeks ago that they ran right after my speech because they didn't know what I was going to say in the speech but they said all the same things in their film that they I'd already said in the speech that I wanted so maybe we're going to get along all right I've said to the president that we unemployment is vast and high in our cities we have hundreds of thousands of people in unemployment lines and on street corners all this country we need jobs and we need training and we're looking to the government and to the president to help us get that job done and the private sector started a project of this kind on his own one man starting it and it is spreading all over the country and you've just heard these young ladies here are already placed in positions now as a result of this training and congratulations we'd like to keep those programs so that other disbanded people may be able to and we're going to expand not cut them, expand them to help our people no what's going on with the president of the state of the union about jobs always listen and then wait and see sir sir is it true that you won't let Mr. Bagan come here until he withdraws from Levenon the story that you won't set a date for Sam there's an answer to that question but I'm not going to take it now because I'm going to go to talk about computers and young people and jobs today I've seen a yes and no sir we go to the try to get some pictures of them where I'm standing you see the president on the other side of a stack of bottles sir sir stop for a second stop for a second thank you very much I can assure you that your announcement of establishing a position was very exciting. ABC, the health companies of this company are more than welcome. President, I thank you so much for accepting my invitation. And it was so gracious to be here at MediCorps today.