Germany's New Export: Jobs Training

[rdean]

Germany s New Export Jobs Training - WSJ

These worker training programs are winning U.S. adherents as manufacturers grapple with a paradox: Though unemployment remains stuck above 8%, companies can't find enough machinists, robotics specialists and other highly skilled workers to maintain their factory floors. An estimated 600,000 skilled, middle-class manufacturing jobs remain unfilled nationwide, even as millions of Americans search for work.

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While here, Republicans slash funding for education. Perhaps they see education as something frivolous and unneeded?

 

[Steven_R]

It's not a question of anyone slashing budgets. It's because since the 70s we've had the attitude that everyone should go to college and that trade jobs are for losers and dumb kids.

 

[Hossfly]

Germany s New Export Jobs Training - WSJ

These worker training programs are winning U.S. adherents as manufacturers grapple with a paradox: Though unemployment remains stuck above 8%, companies can't find enough machinists, robotics specialists and other highly skilled workers to maintain their factory floors. An estimated 600,000 skilled, middle-class manufacturing jobs remain unfilled nationwide, even as millions of Americans search for work.

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While here, Republicans slash funding for education. Perhaps they see education as something frivolous and unneeded?

People in my generation were are the ones who built this country up and then the Liberals from the Sixties have drug it through the mud. We were taught by teachers who used a math book, English grammar book, historybook and a few other necessary books and an 18 inch ruler for discipline. Under the States, we got an education and proceeded to build the country. Then the government stepped in during the early Sixties and there ya go. Everyone climbed onto the back of the tiger.

 

[Sonny Clark]

Germany s New Export Jobs Training - WSJ

These worker training programs are winning U.S. adherents as manufacturers grapple with a paradox: Though unemployment remains stuck above 8%, companies can't find enough machinists, robotics specialists and other highly skilled workers to maintain their factory floors. An estimated 600,000 skilled, middle-class manufacturing jobs remain unfilled nationwide, even as millions of Americans search for work.

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While here, Republicans slash funding for education. Perhaps they see education as something frivolous and unneeded?

Skills that were once handed down through many generations were lost when we closed our plants and factories in favor of cheap foreign imports. We closed our steel mills, textile mills, tool shops, toy factories, furniture factories, appliance factories, automotive parts plants, electronics plants, housewares plants, farm equipment plants, and started the flood and influx of cheap goods made in sweat shops that uses child labor. We've become import dependent, and as a result, sacrificed our own economic well-being in favor of supporting foreign economies. Through our unfair, unjust, and one-sided foreign trade agreements and policies, we've created a poor and dependent citizenry, dependent on government assistance programs and unemployment checks for their survival.

The many lost industries, closed plants and factories, once provided living wages and self-supporting opportunities that covered all education and skill levels. And now, we no longer produce what we use and consume. In addition, we off-shore out-source jobs, import labor, and have millions of illegal immigrants living and working in this country.The majority of jobs available now are low-wage, part-time, and temporary employment. College grads are living with parents and working at McDonalds. Employers are now producing more with less employees, and technology, automation, and innovation has replaced many workers. Also, we have engineers, programmers, and other highly skilled workers being replaced with cheaper foreign labor, imported by corporations looking to increase profits.

Meanwhile, as our population rapidly increases, so does the number in our work force. As we increase the population and our work force, the number of available jobs decrease. It doesn't take an MIT graduate, nor a Philadelphia lawyer to see and understand the problem. We've been sold out by our government and by corporate America. The term "Global Economy" basically means "equalization to the lowest level", and we're seeing it unfold with each passing day. This economically devastating process will not stop until we once again allow America to produce what America uses and consumes. Otherwise, we're headed straight for third world status, with increased poverty and low-wage employment as the norm.

We've already lost the Middle Class, and soon the poor will become poorer. Government debt can not keep us afloat forever. Lost tax revenue, strain on government assistance programs, and unemployment will eventually catch up with all of us. Corporate greed and the government catering to corporate America will be our economic downfall within a few more years. We already have less home ownership, troubled pension funds, cities going bankrupt, and malls becoming ghost buildings. The construction industry has never recovered, and those workers 50 and older can't find jobs. Employers are offering less company paid benefits, placing an addition burden on workers' income. Workers do not have enough spendable income in their pockets to support the retail market, and we're seeing food, rent, utilities, health care, and higher education costing more.

What we're seeing and experiencing now is as good as it's going to get until the American voters wake up and smells the coffee. If we don't realize the root cause of our problems and address them soon, it'll be too late to repair the damage. The chickens have finally come home to roost.

 

[Hossfly]

Great post, Sonny Clark

 

[Sonny Clark]

Great post, Sonny Clark

Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words.