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One of the truest testimonies ever given. I could not agree with every statement any more. I've been preaching this for years. deadhorse

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I disagree with some of what he says, but my post was turning into a rant. Smiler


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I disagree with some of what he says, but my post was turning into a rant. Smiler
I'd love to hear your rant on this Bill. Smiler

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I believe we need a national PR Campaign for Skilled Labor. A big one. Something that addresses the widening skills gap head on, and reconnects the country with the most important part of our workforce.

Right now, American manufacturing is struggling to fill 200,000 vacant positions. There are 450,000 openings in trades, transportation and utilities. The skills gap is real, and it's getting wider. In Alabama, a third of all skilled tradesmen are over 55. They're retiring fast, and no one is there to replace them.

Alabama's not alone. A few months ago in Atlanta I ran into Tom Vilsack, our Secretary of Agriculture. Tom told me about a governor who was unable to move forward on the construction of a power plant. The reason was telling. It wasn't a lack of funds. It wasn't a lack of support. It was a lack of qualified welders.

In general, we're surprised that high unemployment can exist at the same time as a skilled labor shortage. We shouldn't be. We've pretty much guaranteed it.

In high schools, the vocational arts have all but vanished. We've elevated the importance of "higher education" to such a lofty perch that all other forms of knowledge are now labeled "alternative." Millions of parents and kids see apprenticeships and on-the-job-training opportunities as "vocational consolation prizes," best suited for those not cut out for a four-year degree. And still, we talk about millions of "shovel ready" jobs for a society that doesn't encourage people to pick up a shovel.

In a hundred different ways, we have slowly marginalized an entire category of critical professions, reshaping our expectations of a "good job" into something that no longer looks like work. A few years from now, an hour with a good plumber, if you can find one, is going to cost more than an hour with a good psychiatrist. At which point we'll all be in need of both.


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Either get a degree or work at Mcdonalds.
........or the dole
Skilled labor is at a premium.
I hope they were listening and get the ball rolling to solve this problem.





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...I hope they were listening and get the ball rolling to solve this problem.
I don't know if I want the Gov. to "solve this problem"

If it's anything like how they're fixing the housing crisis... it'll cost a million a job to "not fix it". deadhorse


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You've got a very good point. The gummint just throws money at a problem without any valid guidance.





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Well,it's sort of like longing for the 'good old days'. Our society now glorifies super athletes, rock stars, hedge fund managers, and anybody else that makes a 7 figure income. In other words, our god is now money. A close friend travels extensively, has taught in China, India, Russia as well as the U.S. and spent over 30 years in foreign countries. He tells me that the rest of the world now sees the U.S. for what it has become. The Kingdom of Greed. It's not Obama's fault any more than any body else's. We all share a collective guilt because somewhere along the line, instead of seeing guys and gals like most of you, who can do many things well, as our heroes, we've taught our kids to see plumbers and electricians, and carpenters and welders as grunts, taken advantage of by an elitist group of oligarchs. Not to worry, we'll eventually implode and reinvent ourselves because honest hardworking people are still in the majority.
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It's not Obama's fault any more than any body else's. We all share a collective guilt because somewhere along the line, instead of seeing guys and gals like most of you, who can do many things well, as our heroes, we've taught our kids to see plumbers and electricians, and carpenters and welders as grunts, taken advantage of by an elitist group of oligarchs. Not to worry, we'll eventually implode and reinvent ourselves because honest hardworking people are still in the majority.

I don't always agree with Jim and Tere, but I sure do here.


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Disclaimer: Jim is the writer of the editorials. I choose to remain silent. No offense meant here, this "stuff" is not my thing. When Jim starts these kind of conversations my eyes glaze over & my mind starts to drift to what we will have for dinner or did I turn the coffee pot off, or feed the dogs....

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I can see by the amount of people trying to get "out" of the US right now how right the Chinese, Russians, and Indians nono hmm are java hmm


Bush was WAyyyyyy ahead of the curve putting up that fence between Mexico and us. It's actually to keep people "in" ROTFLMAO right...............




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I wouldn't be too hard on today's kids. Look who raised them. The vast majority of adult Americans never actually raised their kids. They let the television do that for them. I remember when my kids were young I always went to parents' night. Often I was the only man there. I never saw more than 10 adults in a class of 30 or so kids. Most of the kids had mothers that worked so they could drive a Lexus ar Benz. That was more important than kid time. When I coached Little League most of the parents would just drop their kids off and leave. They would show up an hour after practice was over and expect us coaches to be there babysitting their kids for them. The way these kids were raised it's a wonder any of them are normal. I am saying this strictly from experience.



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Yes! Doug, how right you are.





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Jim, Doug, I could not have said it any better. I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU GUYS SAID.
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I find it particularly amusing that a professional actor, who graduated from college with a Communications Degree, who was by all accounts a starving middle aged actor until he landed a gig with the shopping network QVC, is representing American Trade workers hmm To me, this is akin to getting my political advice from Madonna and Brad Pitt or my parenting advice from the Octomom nono
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