Should the U.S. pull out of Chicago?

Vanity

[MinuteGal]

"Land of Lincoln, where the governors make the license plates"

Four in all within my living memory. Add to Blago (D.) and Ryan (RINO) the names of Gov. Otto Kerner (D.) who was sentenced to 3 years in Club Fed.....and Gov. Dan Walker (D.) sentenced to 7 years in another Club Fed.

Not a conservative amongst them!

Leni

[MarkL]

The problem consists of having too many bad people.

But those aren't bad people, with bad values. They just have "the wrong values." I know this, because Rahm Emmanuel said so, while begging the gang bangers to go somewhere else while they murder each other.

Mark

[Carthego delenda est]

“Chicago sits astride the traderoutes of the continent and it continues to be a great manufacturing center.”

Cringing Negativism Network would like that statement.

“The problem consists of having too many bad people”

Well maybe just the wrong people.

Snip:
“After years of declining employment in manufacturing due to off-shoring of jobs, good positions are actually going unfilled due to an insufficient supply of skilled workers,” said Randy Blankenhorn, CMAP executive director. “The shift to technology-intensive advanced manufacturing is creating new opportunities for businesses and workers here in metropolitan Chicago. Our report shows that today’s factory jobs often require not only math, reading, and critical thinking, but increasingly also call for workers to understand materials, physics, chemistry, engineering, or computer programming. As a region, we must bring community colleges and other training providers together with employers to train workers to fill these demanding — and rewarding — positions.”

http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/press-release-2-26-13/

Let me rephrase my original statement: “NO BLOOD FOR MANUFACTURING!”

[COBOL2Java]

Should the U.S. pull out of Chicago?

After 2016, the US will BE Chicago.

[muawiyah]

hmm ~ did you realize that if you recruit among BFA degree holders with majors in painting or sculpture (lot of overlap in course content) you will get young people trained in all of that ~ plus the computers, plus the graphic control programs, plus welding, plus steel casting, bronze casting, silver castsing, plus ~ they can read color coded wires and that's just about the only thing you need to add to what they already know.

Leonardo d'Vinci was, of course, a painter, a sculpter, and an engineer ~ he invented the nut and bolt!

Too many inartistic people imagine the visual arts to be just a matter of knowing how to use photoshop ~ which is why they have no idea where to find the talent for those jobs.

[Carthego delenda est]

Well, they should have plenty of prospects to choose from in the not to distant future.

“Governor Quinn announces $54 million for new Fine Arts Complex”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2990672/posts

The problem I see down here in southern NM with the copper mines is that to be hired they want 10yrs documentation of job history with absolutely no voids in said history. Doesn’t matter if a person has been welding all his life or grew up driving heavy machinery, if a person doesn’t meet strict criteria, much of which is not even job related, they will not get hired. I agree that a fine arts degree does have much overlap in various skill sets but it does appear that employers, no matter how desperate for workers, will not hire qualified individuals due to policy. I’d imagine in a heavily unionized city such as Chicago those criteria are even more strict unless of course a person knows the right people.

I don’t know what skill sets the gang members have other than maybe some business sense. They certainly don’t know how to shoot well.