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How Shortages in Five Professions Negatively Impact America’s Future
Townhall.com ^ | May 14, 2021 | Myra Kahn Adams

Posted on 05/14/2021 5:49:42 AM PDT by Kaslin

Edited on 05/15/2021 6:57:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Currently, there are 17 COVID-related shortages in major and minor consumer products and medical supplies but expected to be resolved, albeit with price increases. Included are new cars, chlorine, lumber, pet food, homes, chicken, and hotdogs, to name a few. Most formidable is a fuel shortage — already in play due to the lack of gas truck drivers (see more on that below) — but exacerbated by the oil pipeline cyberattack, on the verge of becoming a national security threat. Now, after paying ransom, the pipeline is slowly reopening, but supply vulnerabilities remain.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenadmin; careers; doctors; eduandschools; education; employment; nurses; police; profession; teachers; teaching; truckdrivers; trucking
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1 posted on 05/14/2021 5:49:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

how dare parents interfere with their child’s education.

teachers are crybabies. those who can’t do, teach.


2 posted on 05/14/2021 5:51:48 AM PDT by wny ( )
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To: Kaslin

An over abundance of lawyers doesn’t help.


3 posted on 05/14/2021 5:52:41 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

That is true. There are already to many around.


4 posted on 05/14/2021 5:56:20 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: wny
teachers are crybabies. those who can’t do, teach.

Adding to that is, those who can’t teach become journalists.

5 posted on 05/14/2021 5:56:43 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: wny

I am thinking that the way the police shortage will be addressed will come to look a bit like the final chapters of A Clockwork Orange.


6 posted on 05/14/2021 6:01:16 AM PDT by steve in DC
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To: wny

> how dare parents interfere with their child’s education <

It all depends what you mean by “interfere”. I taught at an urban high school for decades. I had parents who would want to know exactly what was going on with their child’s education, every step of the way. No problem! That was their right. And I was thrilled that they took an interest. 99% of my fellow teachers felt the same way.

But I also had parents who demanded that I not give homework on days when their kids had a sporting event scheduled. And parents who got upset when I sent their child to the principal because he would not stop using his cell phone in class. Yeah, that was a problem.


7 posted on 05/14/2021 6:02:56 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Kaslin

One of my kids is starting to see that. He’s a trucker. He normally drives flatbed semi’s for a lumberyard.

Lately, he’s been pulled out of the semi to drive other vehicles because they don’t have qualified drivers.

The other day he had to drive a smaller panel truck on a long run. He’s paid way more than the panel truck guys and he’s dependable.

In Biden’s America no one wants to work.


8 posted on 05/14/2021 6:04:32 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: wny

years ago (back in the 90s) I was travelling for work, returning from a job site. I stopped in a Wendy’s for lunch. Sitting nearby there was a group of 8 or 10 people sitting together. I was sitting within earshot and from their conversation it became apparent they were a group of teachers from a nearby high school that were proctoring exams or some such thing (it was early/mid-June).

They were complaining about the kids -— they don’t seem that smart, they don’t seem to get it, they don’t seem interested....yadda, yadda...

I finished up and was walking by just as one remarked how different it was when they were in school. I leaned in and said “perhaps you had better teachers”


9 posted on 05/14/2021 6:05:35 AM PDT by wny ( )
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To: Kaslin

Apparently, doctors are so important that they show up on this list twice. :-P


10 posted on 05/14/2021 6:06:35 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: wny

“teachers are crybabies. those who can’t do, teach.”

Teachers perform a thankless job in thankless conditions. How dare you insult them.

Sincerely yours,
Karen


11 posted on 05/14/2021 6:10:52 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: broken_clock
Adding to that is, those who can’t teach become journalists.

Or worse, politicians.

12 posted on 05/14/2021 6:11:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cyclotic

I doubt there will be any resurgence of any Wills, Sonnys, or BJ McKays. Robot trucks are coming in some form or fashion. I doubt they will take over totally.


13 posted on 05/14/2021 6:11:25 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: BobL

The sign of a declining society is a general disdain for all things related to public service. Look who has taken that over, who wants to work with a bunch of “woke” retards?


14 posted on 05/14/2021 6:13:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wally_bert

Long, long way off


15 posted on 05/14/2021 6:15:08 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: cyclotic

A dot on the horizon but out there.


16 posted on 05/14/2021 6:17:12 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: Kaslin

Doctors!

My kin that happen to be Physicians will tell you the day and year when the AMA made the big push for female Doctors.

The story is, females tend to work fewer hours and do not stay in the work forever.
Showing an increase in the total number of Physicians but hopefully avoid internal competition.


17 posted on 05/14/2021 6:18:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Kaslin
and mixing students in the same classroom with the widest range of abilities, including special needs, and non-English speakers.

Isn't that one of the pathways to "equity" that liberals want so much - use stabby Jamal and screaming kids with Tourette's to "equalize" the gifted kids. Now if we can just keep them from learning at home or in private tutoring.

18 posted on 05/14/2021 6:18:40 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: Kaslin

School board meetings are like going to a pep rally. The administration does all kinds of lively presentations about all the GREAT things happening and how good it all is. THEN, you discover that the poverty level is very high and kids are not learning real skills...which comes out in the paper, not at board pep rallies. It’s all to get maximum money and okay to do as they please.
I also agree that administration burdens teachers and teaching. Although, the ‘fluff’ days of playing for a school day of instruction is not the school’s to do.
PLUS, the teacher’s unions and schools have increased their control over evil by accepting and pushing for immigration. Yes, illegals fill our schools and taxpayers pay dearly in dollars and instruction and assistance for these passing thru many of them. Liberals are killing everything they touch!!


19 posted on 05/14/2021 6:22:11 AM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: Kaslin

WHO wants to bet me that among nthe ‘non-essential’ businesses that the Washington bureaucrats shut down there4 is LOGGING.

HOW close are loggers at a site? NOT very, according to what I have seen on TV.

NO logging==
No Mills open=
NO finishing mills open=

Price of ALL lumber is up over 800%.

$8 sheet of plywood now $64-—94—$100+++

Loggers and MILLS are still not working.


20 posted on 05/14/2021 6:22:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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