Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
I watched a Jobs show on Fox about jobs around the country that cannot be filled.

There is a company in Allentown, PA, that has 600 jobs available and have HAD those jobs for 18 months. These are not chump jobs either. 17-20 starting.

The owner got so desperate for workers, that he went to the local HS, and told them that he'd guarantee at least 50 jobs a year FOREVER, if the school would reinstate a building trades program.

Guess what.....the School did, and most of the seniors in that trades school are employees of his shop part time. They make more than their parents.

I have a HUGE issue with thinking that everyone needs a 4yr degree or a college education to be successful or have a great job. There will always been a need for people to fix the crap that breaks, or to build the projects that are designed by those "college educated" folks.

I would have NO problem with the Obamunists spending a few billion dollars on creating a building trades program again. Imagine if 1 or 2 billion of those dollars spent bailing out banks a few years ago had been used to educate some folks on basic skills.

Later,

Geo
Geo this is why I hate paying taxes first they take .70 out of every dollar just to collect it and spend it then the .30 that is left they do not spend it on what I think is important. I hate to see my tax dollars wasted. I want a say where my tax dollars are spent. We need a much much smaller federal government and more money at the state level and more money at the local level, the closer to home the politician is; the better control you have over your tax money.