Stand by ... to be insulted. More than once.

Our President told us this week that workers in Ohio and elsewhere will miss out on valuable job training. They will, he says, if Representative Paul Ryan’s House budget is passed. That remark is an insult to your intelligence. Because the bill calls for no such thing.

Ryan’s bill calls for streamlining government job training programs. Merging many of them. It does so with convoluted sentences. And five-dollar words. Such language is an insult to you.

But the real insult is that your federal government runs 49 job training programs. Yes, 49! Nine different agencies run these programs.

Here is further insult: Forty-four of them do not check results. They spend your money to train people who are out of work. But they never check to see whether anybody gets work as a result of the training.

More insult: Five of these programs did check. And maybe that is why the other 44 don’t check. Those that checked, found the training they provided did little or no good. The money was wasted. Even in the biggest of the programs.

I’m sorry, but there is more: This is not new. It has been going on for decades. The General Accounting Office reported this in the 1990’s. The GAO reported this in 2000. The GAO reported this in 2003. What they reported was that there were a slew of programs. And they duplicated each other. And they ate up huge amounts of your taxes. And they accomplished sweet Fanny Adams.

Congress further insulted you. Faced with this appalling situation…they added three more job training programs. Three more! And they lifted job training spending by $5 billion.