A fine piece by Michelle Malkin this morning on the administration’s bogus “jobs program.”

Jobs programs are at least something our Community Organizer-in-Chief knows about at first hand. That’s the work Obama was doing in Chicago twenty years ago. Steve Sailer tells the whole story in Chapter 7 of his book-length review of Obama’s autobiography. Steve in turn quotes from Tom Wolfe’s 1970 classic Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers:

Brothers from down the hall like Dudley got down to the heart of the poverty program very rapidly. It took them no time at all to see that the poverty program’s big projects, like manpower training, in which you would get some job counseling and some training so you would be able to apply for a job in the bank or on the assembly line — everybody with a brain in his head knew that this was the usual bureaucratic shuck. Eventually the government’s own statistics bore out the truth of this conclusion. The ghetto youth who completed the manpower training didn’t get any more jobs or earn any more money than the people who never took any such training at all. Everybody but the most hopeless lames knew that the only job you wanted out of the poverty program was a job in the program itself. Get on the payroll, that was the idea. Never mind getting some job counseling. You be the job counselor. You be the “neighborhood organizer.”

Just so. The primary purpose of every jobs program is to create jobs for the people who run the program. No Bureaucrat Left Behind!