The Gov wants to provide re-training opportunities for the unemployed in a field that is growing and will need qualified workers.

Each one of these folks because one less person on welfare or unemployment and one more person helping to pay taxes.

I cannot think of a more appropriate thing for the Gov of Va to be doing.

I note that the new gov McDonnell has run as a candidate saying that he would be a “jobs” governor.

I seriously don’t think that using people’s taxes for retraining the unemployed is considered by most people as “redistribution of others money” – no more or less certainly that the 4K per child that the state spends on primary education – again to produce more self-reliant and financially responsible citizens.

or …. have I totally misunderstood your point?