JHZR2
Staff member
back in the very old days... when people didnt have a choice but to fend for themselves or likely die in the winter, people who didnt live all the way in the boonies, and who were half lucky, went for apprenticeships. Sure schooling wasnt what it is today, but people learned a trade and eventually created value.
Now people go to school and a HS diploma (and even a bachelors) is barely worth the paper its written upon - far too commonplace. Yet any expect to make large amounts of money, and are disapointed and take it out on the family... or are too lazy to properly execute their work, and have issues. This, combined with distractions from cellphones, internet, less than optimal friends, girls, drigs, etc. combine and cause dropouts.
U.S. companies would never go for this. They cn train 10 Chinese Ph.D students in China for the proce of one Ph.D student in the US. They could probably train 50 workers in China for the price of one worker here. U.S. companies dont really care about U.S. workers, as much as they like to spin things... why else has a HUGE amount if U.S. R&D and manufacturing gone to China and India? Why have so many call centers for U.S. companies gone to India? They just dont care... and if they did, the shareholders would make a bigger stink.
I guess thats one benefit of the union influenced companies... they have some leverage to keep a least some of the amnufacturing base in the hemisphere.
Anyway, my suggestion is this: Repeal the all-encompasing minimum wage law. To be elligible for minimum wage, you must (a) be a U.S. citizen or legally here, (b) have grduated from high school or be actively enrolled as a student (summer break is OK). This way, dropouts and illegal aliens can do all these jobs that GWB claims exist and that Americans wont do (likely because many get paid more on elfare than they would for the jobs), and let them get paid $1/hour and compete with Mexicans or whatnot.
The problem is that we need welfare and some of these social programs to keep the dregs of society from robbing those of us blessed enough or hard-working enough to have something worthwhile. Thus my solution is more of a rant, because mark my words, if a lot of these social programs went away, those people wouldnt starve, they wouldnt go to work, they would rob you and I. Our society is based upon instant gratification... thus everyone needing no less than a V-6 engine, teenage pregnancy, the dominance of wal-mart, overstretched credit, etc. If companies actually cared about the country that made them into what they are, they might support programs like this, and give kids who arent necessarily on the college or any other sort of path, something to do where they could combine instant gratification in terms of $$$, with employment out of school, and with an incentive to stay in school, because unless they start selling drugs, they probably wont make that much $$$ as a highschool senior.
JMH
Now people go to school and a HS diploma (and even a bachelors) is barely worth the paper its written upon - far too commonplace. Yet any expect to make large amounts of money, and are disapointed and take it out on the family... or are too lazy to properly execute their work, and have issues. This, combined with distractions from cellphones, internet, less than optimal friends, girls, drigs, etc. combine and cause dropouts.
U.S. companies would never go for this. They cn train 10 Chinese Ph.D students in China for the proce of one Ph.D student in the US. They could probably train 50 workers in China for the price of one worker here. U.S. companies dont really care about U.S. workers, as much as they like to spin things... why else has a HUGE amount if U.S. R&D and manufacturing gone to China and India? Why have so many call centers for U.S. companies gone to India? They just dont care... and if they did, the shareholders would make a bigger stink.
I guess thats one benefit of the union influenced companies... they have some leverage to keep a least some of the amnufacturing base in the hemisphere.
Anyway, my suggestion is this: Repeal the all-encompasing minimum wage law. To be elligible for minimum wage, you must (a) be a U.S. citizen or legally here, (b) have grduated from high school or be actively enrolled as a student (summer break is OK). This way, dropouts and illegal aliens can do all these jobs that GWB claims exist and that Americans wont do (likely because many get paid more on elfare than they would for the jobs), and let them get paid $1/hour and compete with Mexicans or whatnot.
The problem is that we need welfare and some of these social programs to keep the dregs of society from robbing those of us blessed enough or hard-working enough to have something worthwhile. Thus my solution is more of a rant, because mark my words, if a lot of these social programs went away, those people wouldnt starve, they wouldnt go to work, they would rob you and I. Our society is based upon instant gratification... thus everyone needing no less than a V-6 engine, teenage pregnancy, the dominance of wal-mart, overstretched credit, etc. If companies actually cared about the country that made them into what they are, they might support programs like this, and give kids who arent necessarily on the college or any other sort of path, something to do where they could combine instant gratification in terms of $$$, with employment out of school, and with an incentive to stay in school, because unless they start selling drugs, they probably wont make that much $$$ as a highschool senior.
JMH
