Some of Greenspun's ideas are great in theory, harder in practice. Part of the problem is that you put people through a training course, now they have to try t

Some of Greenspun's ideas are great in theory, harder in practice. Part of the problem is that you put people through a training course, now they have to try to find jobs in that area, and that may be just as difficult or more difficult than before. So your unemployed person (who yes, did get through a training course but had no money to pay for their or their family's needs during that course) now has more skills, but possibly more debt accumulated due to living expenses. And there's still no guarantee they will find a job. Or you take a mid-thirties woman, out of work, who has developed a reasonable competency in some mid-level A/P job for a medium sized business. Put her through a language course and now you have a mid-thirties woman with a reasonable competency in German and mid-level accounting. Does that really make her more employable than she was before the training course? Not saying that a WPA-style project instead of extending unemployment would be bad, just that there are a number of repercussions to it that would have to be considered.