Barry: Blame the Bad Jobs Market on ATM's and Airport Kiosks!

[mrplunkey]

So let's assume he followed it up with a brilliantly insightful comment on education.

It's still remarkably dumb to chase the low-end jobs away before fixing education. All Barry has done in that regard is to pander to unions on educational issues.

 

[billfred]

So let's assume he followed it up with a brilliantly insightful comment on education.

It's still remarkably dumb to chase the low-end jobs away before fixing education. All Barry has done in that regard is to pander to unions on educational issues.

I think the economy and advancements chased away the low end jobs. School systems and those stupid for profit schools have just done a poor job still training welders instead of whateer.. not smart enough to figure that out.

BTW.. watch a gas pipeline being built the other day. They were just taking some chemical and fusing the shit together. It was nothing short of amazing.

Before you would of had a ditch full of 200 welders who thought they were the smartest people on earth because they were a select few who had enough skill to do a pipeline weld.

 

[PICK3]

The quote itself is pretty complete though. Barry just isn't that sharp when it comes to economics.

irregardless of his understanding of economics ... he knows how to kill illusive terrorist leaders real good




just sayin'

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

Seal team 6 ftw!

 

[mrplunkey]

I think the economy and advancements chased away the low end jobs. School systems and those stupid for profit schools have just done a poor job still training welders instead of whateer.. not smart enough to figure that out.

BTW.. watch a gas pipeline being built the other day. They were just taking some chemical and fusing the shit together. It was nothing short of amazing.

Before you would of had a ditch full of 200 welders who thought they were the smartest people on earth because they were a select few who had enough skill to do a pipeline weld.

I have mixed feelings over professional schools. What's more of a service to a kid -- flunking out of cooking school after two semesters or graduating a kid with a degree in Aboriginal Sociology after four years?

I'm all for productivity advancements and obviously that's our key to survival. But I have real problems with the government manipulating markets (i.e. minimum wage) or regulating entire industries out of US-based existence (i.e. US textile industry).

 

[PICK3]

I have mixed feelings over professional schools. What's more of a service to a kid -- flunking out of cooking school after two semesters or graduating a kid with a degree in Aboriginal Sociology after four years?

I'm all for productivity advancements and obviously that's our key to survival. But I have real problems with the government manipulating markets (i.e. minimum wage) or regulating entire industries out of US-based existence (i.e. US textile industry).

Some crafts have to be perfected OJT


just sayin'

 

[billfred]

I have mixed feelings over professional schools. What's more of a service to a kid -- flunking out of cooking school after two semesters or graduating a kid with a degree in Aboriginal Sociology after four years?

I'm all for productivity advancements and obviously that's our key to survival. But I have real problems with the government manipulating markets (i.e. minimum wage) or regulating entire industries out of US-based existence (i.e. US textile industry).

I had a hmmm step-brother-in-law who had filed for bankruptcy. Opened one of these trade schools, which I totally believe in, and was a millionair within a few years. 100% of his revenue came from the Gub. Last part being my issue.

 

[mrplunkey]

I had a hmmm step-brother-in-law who had filed for bankruptcy. Opened one of these trade schools, which I totally believe in, and was a millionair within a few years. 100% of his revenue came from the Gub. Last part being my issue.

Yup -- that's a huge problem.

We just don't do government right.

 

[UA_Iron]

It obviously eliminates clerk jobs, but it creates jobs for machine manufacturing and programming.

What makes our government's policies so cynical the combination of two things:

1) Make it economically impractical for companies to employ people in lower positions (i.e. clerk).

2) Make sure that the new jobs that are created (i.e. machine design and assembly) can't be done by US workers because they are too poorly educated thanks to our wonderful nationalized education system.

So we drive the jobs out of here then make sure we can't catch the new jobs.

In bold is a dumb statement. You have any statistics to back that up? Anything proving cause and effect?

 

[mrplunkey]

In bold is a dumb statement. You have any statistics to back that up? Anything proving cause and effect?

You want me to make an argument that US workers are more poorly educated on average than their non-US counterparts?

Let me do a little digging...