Posted on 07/27/2019 7:23:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
n Thursday, while the MSM continued its focus on trying to spin Robert Mueller’s testimony into something other than a disaster, an event of real significance was taking place at the White House that was largely ignored by the same MSM. President Trump and Ivanka Trump hosted a gathering to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Pledge to American Workers.
The Pledge, an initiative driven in large part by Ivanka, was created for the purpose of getting companies to commit to create opportunities for American workers through apprenticeships, education, and on-the-job training. It has been an incredible success with over 330 companies having made the pledge and committing to more than 12 million opportunities for American students and workers.
The companies that are participating vary in size and industry. They include names like Salesforce, The National Association of Manufacturers, Amazon, and Toyota. There are also many other companies that are not household names. Regardless of their size or their industry, each one of them is addressing a need that had been identified prior to the President taking office
CBS News covered the Pledge White House event Thursday with the following qualifier:
Those companies have pledged to offer new opportunities for American students and workers, but the administration can’t force them to follow through on that promise, and there are few mechanisms in place to ensure those opportunities come to fruition.
Anything market-based and not government-mandated will at best be received with skepticism from the MSM. Anything offered as an initiative by Ivanka and supported by this President will meet with outright ridicule.
I’m certain that American workers and businesses are please that Ivanka and the president are willing to ignore both of the above while continuing to pursue policies that make American workers great again.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Ivanka has done absolutely nothing other than continue to give terrible advice, I don’t care if she plans on running for president one day. She needs to go back to New York.
I work construction in Denver....
The “smart” white workers were sending there kids to college
The. “dumb” Mexicans were sending there kids to appreciate programs to become electricians and plumbers
Most of the Mexicans were cement finishers and laborers
Would love to know witch group did the best
Ivanka??
I could not disagree more with you
Apprenticeships are the correct path to a new career with an actual skill set that grows into higher levels as it was initially designed to do
Apprentice
Journeyman
Craftsman
I attended both a Vocational High School as well as the next level and I have been involved in training at that level for decades. I have helped many people to change their lives and move ahead and away from book learning into actual skills, how about you?
People in this model are offered a way off of the dead end road represented by the current “Education” system that focuses on seat shining and other mindless paths, a trade will always be with you and NO robot designed or contemplated can create and fix things like a Human Being.
I suspect your comment has another purpose as you choose to tells someone who is trying to help millions of others to go away, then what happens?
I am calling you out, please explain your contempt for someone working to help others, I really look forward to an intelligent response with some thought behind it, if you can...
“Ivanka has done absolutely nothing other than continue to give terrible advice, ”
Agreed. Like Ivanka personally, but don’t like Nepotism and she is too leftie. No more dynasties ever, even for Trump.
I’ll answer your call the program that has been designed by Invaka Trump, is very croinie capitalist and socialistic.
Not to mention very unconstitutional
But the FR Trump Brigade has no problem with socialism or anything unconstitutional as long as its their guy who’s doing it.
Charlie Kirkland is such a little Communist piss ant He decries against socialism but uses socialist terminology like “Middle Class”, then carries the water for Trump’s socialist policies.
You sound like a socialist statist with your moaning about college.
College is very much beneficial and useful not just for engineering and medical but for tons of stuff American Conservatives have become such snowflakes with their communist envy class warfare nonsense.
Thanks for the humor break
So getting companies to sign up and commit to hiring American workers and put them into apprentice based programs versus H1B or other means in Socialist...
Having spent decades in training from their point of view with a focus on competence and providing a new path forward to other positions in the company or elsewhere with others is, what did you say, Socialistic?
In our country a fundamental right is Freedom of choice, and having skills that are transportable is a foundation stone in that
Socialism or it’s first cousin Communism is the opposite, Freedom from choice, you do what we allow and nothing more and you will like it or else
Colleges and Universities teach no trades, no equivalent skills training exists except in the Military. So if someone has put together an meeting where American companies offer a path forward in learning a trade you have a problem with it
By Your Words shall You be known says all I need to in response
But allowing for other possibilities beyond being stuck with nothing more than a degree from a “Higher Learning” institution, how about your plan to re-train people whom technology and other changes has left by the side of the road.
Game on
PS - We are an Army, not a Brigade, and Yes I know the difference
Sic Semper Tyrranis!
The MSM sucks.
I don’t recall seeing HER name on the 2016 ballot.
Anyone here see it?
And yet HOW many work visas are handed out to $cheap$ Asian/Indian IT people? 100,000 each year?
The foreigners are getting to the point of controlling the databases of all our information and Ivanka thinks Americans are good for only labor?
The porous border is one big disappointment, these work visas are another.
Sorry, but I don’t like Ivanka in the White House as an official (or her husband). I understand POTUS has few people he can trust in DC but these 2 lefties running anything is really galling.
What Federal office does Ivanka Trump hold?
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