Damn straight Dan! We might have lost most of our industrial base and the Indian subcontinent might be taking away our IT market but by God when it comes to making a
hamburger or selling socks and underwear you got to draw the line
someplace, in this we're still number one! This administration intends
to hold on to that vaunted position by spending two billion dollars in
competitive grants to community colleges over the next four years to
augment skills-training. These mall jobs belong to Americans and there
will be no French fry, swim suit or condiment gap on this
administration's watch.
When you can't come up with a good idea you come up with a bad idea and make it sound good. This program gives government assistance to train students to work at the mall. The
programs offered by United Technologies, the maker of Pratt &
Whitney jet engines and Otis elevators, will offer apprenticeship
programs in advanced manufacturing. Apprenticeship programs have long
been the domain of a union workplace. Union apprenticeship programs
don't require the apprentice to pay the entire cost for his or her own
training.
My son's former girl friend recently graduated from a community college as a dental technician. In her last semester she split her time as an intern for various local dentists. She graduated
at the top of her class with high recommendations. She was proud to be
a college graduate and it helped her to land a job as a nanny. You see,
with numerous local community college programs all churning out interns
there is little need for a dentist to actually hire one.
This is a program that shifts worker training costs from corporations to
government and the students themselves. Many if not most of these jobs
will not pay a living wage. There is little growth potential or career
potential, its not likely that Pratt & Whitney or Otis Elevator
will double their market share in the coming years requiring thousands
more workers. The program will quickly saturate the market for elevator
technicians or jet engine assembly and then the wages for those jobs
will fall down. They are treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease
because whenever you export jobs you import poverty.
Rather than addressing the problem they pretend to address the problem. They hold
up mall jobs and hamburger flipping in a shining light saying, "Someday
maybe this could be you kid, if you play your cards right." The jobs
that not too long ago young people worked at until they got out of
college they now must go to college to just get in to.
So then Bob asked me my major, "I was performing arts all the way," I answered.
I wrote my senior paper on the cultural influence of the San Diego
chicken. I've performed in all the classics, Mayor McCheese, the
Hamburgler, but I never could land that big job as Ronald! But I've done
well, I went to the Super Bowl last year as a Chic fil-a cow and I've
got a line on a job at the local community college teaching arrow
spinning 101. Sure, its only teaching Freshman but you've got to catch
them young to teach them the craft of restaurant and roadside mascots."
Then our boss, Mr. Neidermier, came out of his office and yelled at me and
told me to clock in and get into my Chucky Cheese costume and told Bob
to get back to work constructing pizza's. "Damn college boy! He thinks
he's a big shot just because he wears the red polyester shirt."
hamburger or selling socks and underwear you got to draw the line
someplace, in this we're still number one! This administration intends
to hold on to that vaunted position by spending two billion dollars in
competitive grants to community colleges over the next four years to
augment skills-training. These mall jobs belong to Americans and there
will be no French fry, swim suit or condiment gap on this
administration's watch.
When you can't come up with a good idea you come up with a bad idea and make it sound good. This program gives government assistance to train students to work at the mall. The
programs offered by United Technologies, the maker of Pratt &
Whitney jet engines and Otis elevators, will offer apprenticeship
programs in advanced manufacturing. Apprenticeship programs have long
been the domain of a union workplace. Union apprenticeship programs
don't require the apprentice to pay the entire cost for his or her own
training.
My son's former girl friend recently graduated from a community college as a dental technician. In her last semester she split her time as an intern for various local dentists. She graduated
at the top of her class with high recommendations. She was proud to be
a college graduate and it helped her to land a job as a nanny. You see,
with numerous local community college programs all churning out interns
there is little need for a dentist to actually hire one.
This is a program that shifts worker training costs from corporations to
government and the students themselves. Many if not most of these jobs
will not pay a living wage. There is little growth potential or career
potential, its not likely that Pratt & Whitney or Otis Elevator
will double their market share in the coming years requiring thousands
more workers. The program will quickly saturate the market for elevator
technicians or jet engine assembly and then the wages for those jobs
will fall down. They are treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease
because whenever you export jobs you import poverty.
up mall jobs and hamburger flipping in a shining light saying, "Someday
maybe this could be you kid, if you play your cards right." The jobs
that not too long ago young people worked at until they got out of
college they now must go to college to just get in to.
So then Bob asked me my major, "I was performing arts all the way," I answered.
I wrote my senior paper on the cultural influence of the San Diego
chicken. I've performed in all the classics, Mayor McCheese, the
Hamburgler, but I never could land that big job as Ronald! But I've done
well, I went to the Super Bowl last year as a Chic fil-a cow and I've
got a line on a job at the local community college teaching arrow
spinning 101. Sure, its only teaching Freshman but you've got to catch
them young to teach them the craft of restaurant and roadside mascots."
Then our boss, Mr. Neidermier, came out of his office and yelled at me and
told me to clock in and get into my Chucky Cheese costume and told Bob
to get back to work constructing pizza's. "Damn college boy! He thinks
he's a big shot just because he wears the red polyester shirt."
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