From daemon Mon Jun 12 12:05 EDT 1995 Received: from emout04.mail.aol.com (emout04.mail.aol.com [198.81.10.12]) by town.hall.org (8.6.12/941123.08ccg) with ESMTP id MAA04251 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:04:20 -0400 Received: by emout04.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA059092969; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:02:50 -0400 From: DARENTS@aol.com Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:02:50 -0400 Message-Id: <950612120248_93244395@aol.com> To: jec@town.hall.org Subject: Comments Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1682 Status: RO Sen Mack, 1. I'm a recently retired 67 year old who has jumped into the computer age full speed. I certainly appreciate this opportunity to participate by comment in the first interactive hearing and teleconference. 2. I particpated in a computer discussion with Horace Deets of AARP last Thur.and was able to express my views on medicare. 3. A lot has been said about training. Recently I heard views from small business that they don't want government trained employees - they want to train their own employees. THEY WANT EMPLOYEES WHO CAN READ A WRITE AND HAVE AN ATTITUDE OF WILLINGNESS TO WORK AND SHOW UP FOR WORK ON TIME WHEN SCHEDULED. The government should help small business train their employees where you know there is a job. A lot can be said for minimum wage work. All of my 6 college graduated children worked many hours at minimum wage including my son who is now an M.D. pulmonologist who worked for years at McDonald flipping burgers. Three of my children made more money within 5 years of graduation than I did after 30 years as an engineer for the government. As my wife & I did, all my children always were able to find a summer job by being willing to chase down the jobs - no free government handout jobs. Thank you for the excellent Congressional hearing.(In progress now) A Virginian PC enthusiast P.S. Why doesn't ALL of Congress get E-mail addresses. I have commented to Robb, Clinton, Gingrich, Gore and others but many Congressman and Senators don't have E-Mail addresses yet. WHY? WHY? don't they get on board? DA