Not sure where you get this idea from, but I can assure you that it is false. Personally I would dearly love to see trade schools funded as well as other schools, and the trades given the same recognition and respect that white-collar professionals get. As you pointed out, we need plumbers, mechanics, electricians, day care and food service workers, carpenters, roofers, etc. We need 'em a lot more than we need more lawyers or English majors.
Wouldn't a work-for-tuition scheme be great with our immigrants too? Rather than paying them crap wages under the table, let's set up some schools teaching needed skills for them. They can work to pay for their tuition, and we can require that if they bring a spouse he/she has to work too even if they aren't attending school.
Aimée (04-19-2019), christiefan915 (04-16-2019), JPF (04-16-2019), Phantasmal (04-23-2019)
christiefan915 (04-16-2019), Guno צְבִי (04-23-2019), Mason Michaels (04-17-2019)
Why? Because despite what your intellect may be, we have a lot of people being drug around by the nose, by a serial liar. Every time he fails to deliver it's still the same droned out nonsense. They buy into his uncultured, and unintelligible babble all the time. Just the fact, that such tactics is working, means the reptilian brain is being utilized more, and intelligence isn't.
Guno צְבִי (04-16-2019)
Very true. Yet they're still as effete and ineffectual as they were when they were born.
The anti-Trumper's new mantra:
“B-b-but muh White supremacy”
What? Are you trying to tell us the you’ve never sneered at someone just on the basis of whether or not they have a college degree? I know that I personally go places with my mortarboard on and my framed diploma and hold in the faces of construction workers, waiters, and most of all dog catchers!!!
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The OP doesn’t have this “idea”. This is a smear thread that you have resurrected with your very thoughtful post.
I differ with you on the approach however (I imagine). Here is what I’d do instead of “funding trade schools”, I would take the Social Security model and flip it. The actual proposal is very long but here it is in a nutshell. You get 60 hours of conventional college or the trade school equivalent paid for upfront by Uncle Sam. Over your work life, you pay it back through payroll deductions—plus a small set fee-- not to exceed $200 per month (or $100 per paycheck). The amount of payback would be based on a metric that takes into account your age and how much you spent getting your 60 hours of college or a vocational certificate. This would be open to all Americans. Those just out of HS get 2 years paid. Those in school right now, get 2 years paid (perhaps their final 2 years). Those in a career can get enhancements paid for (LVN can take courses to become an RN for example). Those who are looking to switch careers or are retirees can do so as well. There are caveats for each group which safeguard the program but the gist is that we will have more educated persons without the student debt ball-and-chain.
I really disagree with you on the immigration aspect. There is a system in place for immigrants to become citizens; millions have availed themselves of this system; I recommend the person making “crap wages….under the table” use it. Perhaps we could make it less strenuous and less prosecutorial but there is a system in place.
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