Posted on 03/19/2019 7:16:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah, but if everybody doesn’t go to college, how will the anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian left indoctrinate so many at their own expense?
And the madness is all subsidized by the Dept. of Education. Spending money and blowing massive student debt-bubbles for the traditional (now solidly leftist) education-industrial complex.
Always bothers me to see people denigrate education, why Americans don't push it, don't insist on kids doing homework, etc. Without education, they put their kids on lower income, lower acheivement path. It is a universal solution to get education, to learn your way out of poverty, yet we have this mindset underway in America to do just the opposite. And the result? Many of our kids will make less than we did, far less.
Doesn't help that we've invited through H1B and other programs, and allowed illegally, tens of millions of people to take our jobs, underbid our work, drive down our wages, close out whole industries from us.
And doesn't help that we don't have apprentice or work-related education.
So many ills.
Reminds me of a joke:
One morning a lawyer awoke to get ready for court that day.
He found that his drains were clogged up and he didn’t have the time to do it himself so he called an emergency plumber.
The plumber quickly arrived and in 15 minutes had the drain flowing freely.
He presented the bill to the lawyer for $500.
“Five hundred dollars! For 15 minutes work? That’s $2000 an hour! I’m a lawyer and I don’t even get that much!” exclaimed the lawyer.
“Yeah, I know,” replied the plumber, “I didn’t get that much when I was a lawyer, either.”....................
What the admission scandal shows is that human nature and behavior despite various facades throughout recorded history remains unchanged.
The question to ask here....are there any anti-capitalist pipe-fitters or HVAC technicians in America today? I don’t think you can find a single one.
I also don’t think you can find any plumbers with anything other than house, credit card or car loan debt. Unless that guy screws up and marries some trophy wife...the typical plumber ought to be able to retire by age 60, and have a decent income in his older years.
How much money was spent on this study?
I could have told them that for less that half whatever they paid.
That pipe fitter flier is probably bogus. You need connections to get into that program of that I am sure, no kid without connections is going to walk in and get the apprenticeship. It is probably law they have to post that.
FWIW, I always got a kick of how the trash guys were as much or more plugged into the grid as Dilbert.
Good post. Skilled tradespeople are often as smart or smarter than the engineers or managers they work with, just differently educated.
Bingo! The Left WANTS everybody going to college because for decades that has served them so well as a captive indoctrination center.
Even Nixon’s plumbers were Capitalists.
Crap, I am thinking about a 2nd career as my 1st comes to a close. Pipefitter looks pretty good.
I thought this was written by another Megan Fox.....
That pipe fitter flier is probably bogus. You need connections to get into that program of that I am sure, no kid without connections is going to walk in and get the apprenticeship. It is probably law they have to post that.
Not true, at least not in the Boston area. You have to pass a test first. Most can’t.
Drug test. And they are only looking for opiates.
It’s probably like truck driving CDLs.
Many want in but few pass the drug screen.
It’s probably like truck driving CDLs.
Many want in but few pass the drug screen.
Exactly. I know people who are in the Unions, Electrical, Iron workers, Plumbers etc. They can never fill their apprenticeships because of the drug test. Sad but true.
In today’s world the trades have higher standards than the colleges.
I doubt it. A nobody, even with a clean urine sample, will not get a paid apprenticeship. Clearly a union apprenticeship which they are handed out to family and friends.
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