Why Job Training for the Unemployed

The very idea of allowing the unemployed to get tuition free technical job training seems to upset some folks. To me it just makes sense both economically and morally.
Economically, the investment in job training for those on unemployment will lead to jobs and remove the unemployed burden to taxpayers. It will also help provide a technically qualified work force that will be an attractor for new businesses.
Morally, it is neighbor helping neighbor in the best way. We've all heard the adage, "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." That is what we would be doing.
Now, detractors will say we can't afford to foot the bill for the school costs of the unemployed. They say, "Look at the Hope scholarship. We have had to reduce the amount of the money Hope provides due to the lagging economy." But of course, they don't say we have reduced paying out that money to those who are wealthy enough not to need it for their schooling.
Take the gentleman I spoke to last night. He was a college graduate, but in a field little in demand. He wanted to train in a new technical trade to support his family, but the rules of the system forced him to scrape together all the money to pay for it himself while he was barely scraping by. Yet the student from a family making over $250,000 a year has his tuition to college paid for so he can drive a BMW. I think there is a better way.
In fact, while the University System accepts the scholars and the well healed, the Technical College System is the path to a good job for those wanting to work in the technology fields. I believe the Technical College System could afford to waive the tuition of the unemployed in order to allow them training. During the time I spent in that system, I saw it was able to grow its bureaucracy, much like the K through 12 public school system, has done. If cost were the only factor, it could trim some of that bureaucracy to make up the difference.
As I said, getting the unemployed trained in new skills and employed helps us all, both economically, making the costs of training them an investment, and morally, doing the right thing.