Government programs, in and of themselves aren't always the pork, wasteful thing that the right wingers portray. I can say that my wife (who was about to be laid off from a large aerospace company) was able to take part in the timber retraining bill and had her education paid for to be retrained as a nurse. There is an example of some of the good things that came from the Clinton Administration, beyond the tech boom. I am unaware of such a program offered by the Bush Administration.