Posted on 04/23/2012 3:27:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
GM management, as usual, destroyed GM.
This comnmentary is by Michael Barone, not Michael Savage.
The only reasons the academic white towers offered this garbage is because it was easy for the lazy to matriculate, they received billions of dollars in tuition (most of it loans from students who could not afford them), and the curriculum was decidedly anti-Judeo-Christian and Western.
And here she is, a San Diego Mesa College graduate with a BS in "Black Studies."
What does the marketplace need with these graduates? Their only hope is a government grant job or an affirmative action hiring for a job they are totally unqualified for.
Oops, thanks. Before posting the article I read a thread title that someone posted about Michael Savage. (My cup of coffee hadn’t worked yet)
Whew! Am I ever so glad we’ve grown beyond boring and repetitive jobs that promised a comfortable retirement. Nothing but excitement now. Whee.
Barone, not Savage.
IT-based productivity tools, on the other hand, are designed to help people to work more efficiently and productively at jobs that create something, or that provide a valuable service. In an America that doesn't promote the creation of new industry and small business, or at least the sustainability of existing industry and small business, there won't be an expanding market for IT-based productivity tools. Just my take.
Back in the early ‘70’s (I think) the Detroit News or Free Press ran a week-long feature on boredom on the assembly lines. They interviewed workers and described in detail the down sides of having a job like that.
See post#7
“IT-based productivity tools, on the other hand, are designed to help people to work more efficiently and productively at jobs that create something, or that provide a valuable service.”
Microsoft Project might be a good example of that.
Admin moderator: Author should be Michael Barone
I’ve pointed out for some time that real employers should run screaming from job candidates with these degrees. They have been trained to be anti-business nightmares, ready to sue at the drop of a hat. A high school graduate is a better bet. They haven’t gotten all the nasty indoctrination from our modern academics.
>> In an America that doesn’t promote the creation of new industry and small business, or at least the sustainability of existing industry and small business, there won’t be an expanding market for IT-based productivity tools. <<
You seem to be operating — perhaps unconciously — under the Progressive-Utopian assumption that good things will happen if only “an America” (that is, an “enlightened” American government) will “promote” some specific plan to sustain existing businesses and industries.
But that’s not how free-market capitalism works. America and her capitalist system have thrived for 200+ years precisely because there has been no overarching national “plan” and because the market has been allowed to engage continuously in “creative destruction.”
Moreover, in those thankfully-rare instances where government has sought massively to promote a specific sector, like the effort during the 1990’s and early 2000’s to grow home-ownership among the minority population, and like Obama’s recent love affair with solar panels, the results have generally been failures if not outright disasters.
So except for a few sectors that clearly are “natural monopolies” — like perhaps the Interstate Highway System —let’s keep “an America” (that is, her government) out of wht you call “new industry and small business” and out of promoting “the sustainability of existing industry.” If our fed and local governments will simply reduce regulation to the bare required minimum, reduce government spending, hold the line on taxes, and maintain a steady money supply, then the high-tech sector will do just fine — as will the rest of the American economy.
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