Re: Excellent column - I think he is right

You wrote:
"I do believe that even a Bush might be
sufficiently intelligent to understand that concept."

WOW! You *really* had to reach to get in that rude, ignorant cheap shot
regarding Bush. <shaking head>

CW

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From: "margareth" <mzebarth@sympatico.ca>
To: "PoliticalForum" <politicalforum@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 04:07
Subject: Re: Excellent column - I think he is right

The best thing that the government could do to stimulate the economy
would be to offer all who seek unemployment benefits or welfare a
training apprenticeship. That type of program would give the
applicant the tuition (as required) and the on the job instructions so
that they can begin to learn the skills they need to succeed with the
company that hires them. Any coproration that hires them would be able
to train workers to their own needs, as required. It might also be
useful if the same companies were denied the ability to hire outside
the country if they cannot show that they have tried to train the
locals. As this recession wears on, we are in even greater danger of
losing craft skills as the baby boomer generation ages and retires.
Now is that rocket science? I do believe that even a Bush might be
sufficiently intelligent to understand that concept.

On Jul 2, 9:21 pm, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Jobs No American /Can/ Do?
>
> Forget the jobs "Americans /won't/ do." There's a new class of vacant
> jobs in U.S. manufacturing.
> July 3, 2010 - by Scott Ott
> <http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/author/scottott/>
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>
> In the battle over immigration reform, some believe we need to grant
> amnesty to "undocumented workers" because they do the jobs "Americans
> won't do," as George W. Bush once said. But there's a new class of
> vacant jobs in U.S. manufacturing --- call them "the jobs Americans
> /can't/ do."
>
> According to a story in the /New York Times/, many jobs, even in this
> recessive economy, go unfilled because employers can't find applicants
> with the skills to perform them. Lest you think they're searching for
> assembly-line workers with PhD's, look at this excerpt from the /Times/
> piece
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/economy/02manufacturing.ht...>://
>
> All candidates at Ben Venue must pass a basic skills test showing
> they can read and understand math at a ninth-grade level. A
> significant portion of recent applicants failed,/ /and the company
> has been disappointed by the quality of graduates from local
> training programs.
>
> The company struggles to fill 100 positions.
>
> As technology advances, humans who interact with it also must, but many
> don't.
>
> Why? Try my thesis on for size:
>
> 1) Job compartmentalization by powerful unions discouraged
> cross-training and skills development in exchange for "security."
> 2) Teachers' unions continue to produce high school "graduates" whose
> mental capabilities make them unworthy of the title.
>
> In other words, the anti-competitive spirit of private- and
> public-sector unions conspires to dumb down its victims, making them
> into dependents --- first of the union and then of the state, when the
> employer lets them go, or goes under. Even workers in non-union jobs and
> plants have felt the impact of career compartmentalization as unions
> have bullied employers to transform the logistics of the factory to suit
> their members' alleged need for "security."
>
> In short, big union collectivism administers Novocaine to the brain,
> from the kindergarten classroom to the factory floor, thus slowing the
> economy.
>
> But the depressing effect of unions goes beyond the school and
> workplace. Our elected officials show symptoms of cranial anesthesia as
> a result of the fact that big unions fund and run their political
> campaigns.
>
> You can almost hear the dull hum of lethargic synapses in House Speaker
> Nancy Pelosi's numbed skull as she says that extending unemployment
> benefits is "the best way to stimulate the economy
> <http://www.house.gov/pelosi/prExtendingUnemploymentBenifits051403.htm>."
>
> That's right. Rep. Pelosi says the productive members of society should
> pay others to remain unemployed as a way to generate the juice that
> keeps our economy surging forward.
>
> What else could she say?
>
> Her campaign team --- the public- and private-sector unions --- have
> conspired to decimate the industries that were the driving force of U.S.
> prosperity. Union leaders and their favored politicians grow fat and
> mighty in the process.
>
> Now that public sector unions have overtaken their private-sector
> counterparts in total membership, this same open conspiracy brings the
> mind-numbing power of collectivism to every corner of government.
>
> Some conservatives believe that the Democrats want the United States to
> be a socialist nation.Whether that's true, her government has already
> become so, employing multiplying legions of union-dependents who are
> unfit for any craft or trade other than "government work."
>
> So as the number of private-sector jobs that Americans /can't /do
> swells, only one option remains for the people who have been doped and
> duped by collectivism: you can cash checks from the government ---
> either for doing nothing at home, or for actively hampering economic
> growth by working for the government.
>
> The solution: reintroduce liberty and its partner, uncertainty, into our
> schools, factories, and government.
>
> Collectivism produces a numbing of the nerve endings, a somnolence of
> the synapses, a deadness of the soul. The only remedy is freedom.
>
> Two hundred yards from where I sit is Dorney Park, an amusement company
> which charges customers $40 per day to repeatedly give them the
> sensation that they're about to die. Of course, they don't say it that
> way, but thousands of people daily flow through the Dorney turnstiles to
> experience uncertainty in all of its magnificent abandon. From my patio,
> I can hear the screams ... of delight.
>
> That's right ... the soul of man thrills to the threat of uncertainty.
>
> Our work lives use to pulsate with that sensation. Will the crop
> survive? Will the twister take the barn? Will I kill the game, and thus
> eat another day? Will my store generate enough revenue this hour to
> cover expenses? Will this craft, that I see as a physical manifestation
> of the passion of my soul, so bewitch another that he will part with the
> bread of his honest toil in order to take possession of my art?
>
> In negotiating away our freedom for security, we have done the sensible
> thing ... and smothered the inner man. We have heard the sweet song of
> the union bosses who have wooed us from uncertainty to stasis. But life,
> she will not permit stasis. Change happens anyway. And now millions who
> cashed in their passion for a paycheck have long lost both.
>
> Men are not machines. We make machines. We use machines to master our
> environment. And we must reject the schemes of those who would sap these
> fleeting days of their vitality. We must embrace the uncertainty, and
> live the freedom.
>
> //Scott Ott is co-host of Trifecta on PJTV.com
> <http://www.pjtv.com/page/Trifecta/182/>, editor of ScrappleFace.com
> <http://scrappleface.com/>, the world's leading family-friendly news
> satire source, and author of the book Laughing at Obama: Volume I
> <http://www.laughingatobama.com/>.//
>
> Email <http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/jobs-no-american-can-do/?email=1>

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