Posted on 09/01/2009 9:00:52 AM PDT by street_lawyer
America needs jobs or the economy will not recover. There are not enough jobs for skilled workers. Even lawyers graduating from Harvard and Yale can not find jobs in the major law firms, and are taking jobs in second tier firms, leaving graduates from other schools without prospects of employment.
Industry needs engineers, but Allan Cotrone, the director of Career Development and Student Affairs at the Ross School of Business, told The Michigan Daily. “I’ve never seen it as bad as this for students looking for jobs,”
If Obamacare passes it will not be long before tax revenues from medical providers and insurance companies tumble, and in view of future unsustainable debt, the prospects of government being able to provide what Obama is promising is certainly debatable.
The N.Y. Times in August 2009 predicted that “Over the next several years
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I thought everyone knew that?
Nonsense. We need cheap goods from overseas. Middle-class building jobs like we use to have just give people time to question their masters.
We have politicians who talk about “jobs” constantly, and then do everything possible to make running a business difficult and unprofitable.
Severe logic deficit.
Of course we do. Thanks to the American Federation of TEACHERS, and the National Education Association, MOST AMericans are too STUPID to do anything more than work on an Assembly Line.
Thank you EFFING UNIONS!
I like your tagline
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
I have this recurring nightmare that down the road we mix it up with the Chinese or the Ruskies and, because the idiots we elected to national office and the boards of the internationalist mega-corporations have sent those plants offshore, we take it up the bum because the replacement spares needed to keep the war machine going are — MADE IN CHINA or RUSSIA or by one of THEIR allies.
Gee, that would fit into Obozo’s plan quite nicely, wouldn’t it?
Gunsmithing seems to have some upside potential....
Get a clue. The heretofore tenet you quote may have been vogue in a Pre-Zer0 Reformation sense; IT IS NOT NOW.
Qualifications and credentials for success in the Zer0 world are far more elusive - founding father of the Weather Underground, community organizing communist preaching, mis-spent time doing state legislation dealing, bomb throwing, sedition, abetting the enemy, nonpayment of taxes,advocation of reparations for all minorities, realigning the social structure....all those things are the new Vogue....in short, the new Vogue is radical hate of traditional America, and the Harvard and Yale appellations don't mean diddly squat anymore unless you can tack a minority or radical tag to it.
no we need 500 thousand dollar busses that provide 2 and 1/2 jobs each....makes more sense.
Two years ago I went from working as an advertising executive to running a cnc horizontal mill making parts for a subcontractor of Caterpillar. I had never been in a machine shop in my life. I will tell you that the complexity of running one of these machines well is over the head of most of the people I have ever worked with in a corporate office. My respect for those who work in the skilled trades increased exponentially from my experience in this shop.
Unfortunately, with Cat’s recent downturn, the shop I work for had to lay off nearly 75% of their workforce. I was the last one they laid off and was promised a call back when things turn around. I wish I could say I see that happening in the next month, but my fear is it may be a year or more.
Right now the manufacturing jobs are few and far between. Unfortunately so are the advertising jobs. It’s definitely a scary time right now.
I hope he realizes that the age of "good payin' unskilled/semiskilled" factory jobs were a product of the immediate post-WWII era, when America had a near global monopoly on manufactured goods (and the unions could afford to hold a gun to the head of US companies), and which ended with the oil crisis of the 1970s.
Yearning for the days of smokestack America is about as silly as certain southrons yearning for the "Yeoman Farmer" during the early days of industrialization.
These are people in a very low level technical area. I am hardly a super IT hardware guru but am capable and competent but these guys who are supposed to be getting all this high end education can barely function with using Windows XP. No wonder that no one in the remote facility can have rights to install anything.
I read his opinion with interest. He does have a point about 1948 when the industrial power of the United States was greater than all the other nations combined, but he was totally wrong about China. Check out how much cement they produce and who uses for starters.
Also if anyone wants to know what really happened and why read Beyond the Ruins - The Meaning of Deindustrialization by Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott; Meltdown - A Free Markete Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts will Make Things Worse, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr; The End of Prossperity - How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy - If We Let It Happen by Arthur Bl Laffer, Ph. D. et als; The forgotten man by Amity Shlaes; and Saving Freedom, by Jim DeMint U.S. Senator R-SC.
I also whole heartily support Sara Palin,
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