40 years of destroying our own manufacturing base will have that effect.
“...including apprenticeship programmes of the kind it uses in Germany.”
This would seem to be a good thing.
Siemens is one of our main competitors. He’s talking about chemical engineers and hardware and software engineers familiar with fluid process control among other things. Rare talent.
affirmative action does not produce quality applicants for a position
just check 1600 pennsylvania
but hey, don’t worry... i’m sure all those unemployed are homo friendly, unborn babies are just fetal tissue, white men are greedy/evil, and believe capitalism is the problem.
What a shock!
Siemens finds they need to give their American workers some training—just like they need to give their German workers.
If you have ever interviewed recent college grads or interns, you know that for every good one there are five who are wasting their time going to college.
It is amazing to me how someone can spend a semester in a college level class, pass it, and know nothing about the subject.
Now do you feel better?
Interesting. There was another WAPO article this morning suggesting that many US jobs can’t be filled. I wonder if Obama’s minions in the press are lining up behind him to deflect criticism of management of the economy and joblessness by blaming American workers.
When schools are more determined to teach entitlement values rather than math you get this result.
World War II era
Preceding World War II, Siemens was involved in funding the rise of the Nazi Party and the secret rearmament of Germany. During the second World War, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the “Nazification” of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around notorious concentration camps[8][9] to build electric switches for military uses.[10] In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the camp, supplying the electricity to the camp.
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top”, which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,” which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,” which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by America 2000,” which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk, which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter fixed the nation’s public school system by first establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
“The companies are leaner and heavily technology-intensive, and require more than a high school diploma.”I have a feeling that he won’t be happy with a PhD in Marxist Sociology or Advanced Queer Studies, either…
Johnny can’t read, write or do math but he feels great about himself because he got several participation awards and his parents lawyer made sure he didn’t have to do any ‘difficult’ homework or cite the pledge of allegiance to the failed imperial American puppet masters....
BUT,BUT, we educated and have 65% of the worlds Lawyers!! with 4.6 % of the population!! We do not produce Kelly Johnson’s or Jonas Salk’s, we instead produce the worlds most worthless person, The Civil Rights lawyer,Couple this with Affirmative Action and it is a Wonder the electric is still on in this place.
The crux of the problem is that employers have bought the lie from the Edumacation establishment that in return for their tax dollars, perfectly trained little worker bees will emerge from the end of the pipeline and the employer won’t have to invest a second of their time or a dime of their money in training.
It does not work that way in the real world.
Well Helmut, it seems then that German workers aren't up to snuff then either..Donit! (arrogant bastard)
Of course, we skilled folks are usually taken. :)
The Stuxnet worm that infiltrated Iranian nuclear facilities ran on Siemens equipment.
He’s right. The U.S. workforce is becoming more unskilled, unethical, unmotivated, and ignorant every year.