@avant-garde  I don't know if there's actually any 'skills shortage', but there is definitely an employment shortage. Everything we keep hearing about the housing crisis, and there's several significant reasons for that, but a big one has got to be that there's an apparent shortage of construction workers in the workforce. So why isn't the government hiring more of them? More houses being built; and less unemployment. It's a no-brainer 2 birds with one stone deal!

And I totally get what your saying about giving jobs to people who already have jobs. It's rediculous! Although I think we would need to make sure that people looking for full-time work don't get tied up in part-time work and bypassed for full-time opportunities. We'd need some secure system in place to insure that assigning such people a part-time job is only temporary, and doesn't surrender their position in the cue for whatever full-time job they were hoping for.

I also get what your saying about regular people in need getting left behind, compared to soldiers, EMT workers, ect. Although I'd hate to think of any improvement in our situations coming at their expense. Those people deserve all the help we can offer; but that doesn't mean that regular civilians don't.