Newt is smart, articulate, a good debater, well read, but on the wrong team.
He fully embraced the AGW (Global Warming Scam) and still has never distanced himself from something that most reasonably intelligent people see clearly as a total LIE.
I heard him last week make a statement that the reason the US has so high of long term unemployment is the workers simply do not have the proper skills and that education would fix that. Which is total BS. He and his “Globalist friends” are to blame for this, with their blind leap of faith into that BS. All nations and cultures are not the same and if you think that if we simply open ourselves to trade that the rest of the world will simply reciprocate. Total Lie. Total nonsense, he wants us to think he really believes that?
Newt is not part of the solution, he is part of the cause.
Sorry, Fig Newtons.
“I heard him last week make a statement that the reason the US has so high of long term unemployment is the workers simply do not have the proper skills and that education would fix that. “
I agree. He’s simply wrong. The first step is to stop treating employers like their parents. If they have a problem with someone, then they should be able to CAN HIM, without fearing a lawsuit. If they’re dumb enough to do that to good workers, they’ll be Chapter 7. The second step is to END laws that protect workers - first off, get rid of unions, then minimum wage. If a worker is underpaid, then he can LEAVE for greener pastures. The third step is to cut way, way, back on regulations.
As to education, I agree that helps, and needs to be broken up (and the best way is to follow the three steps above)...but education is the longer term solution...right now we need to clean up the mess we’re in now.