RE: Alabama gets $1.6 billion auto plant
January 12, 2018 at 8:36 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2018 at 9:05 am by Brian37.)
(January 12, 2018 at 8:32 am)alpha male Wrote:(January 11, 2018 at 5:51 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Oh, yes. The future of American greatness clearly rests with technical college education and blue collar manufacturing jobs.
Those certainly could be a part of a vibrant economy. Your attitude is part of what's preventing that.
In my area, a journeyman steamfitter makes $60,000 - $80,000 per year. The local union was looking for 70 apprentices this year and they're not going to reach it. That number is unprecedented. It used to be that you needed to know someone in the union to become an apprentice. Now there just isn't enough interest to fill all the slots. Everyone's told to get a college degree and the associated debt, when there are good alternatives. Don't look down your nose at a technical education. A good welder makes more than a lot of college grads.
No, gullible people like you are why we have had bubbles and will have another future bubble.
The TOP are the ones driving up prices, not those seeking a trade education or college education.
Pull your head out of your butt!
(January 11, 2018 at 10:10 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: What I truly hate is the touting of jobs gained or lost in single instances as if they affirm one policy or another.
People getting employed is a good thing. People getting laid off sucks. But both are a natural part of any economy. Lots of plants opened during Obama's presidency. Lots of jobs were shipped overseas.
The employment numbers increased the whole way. I hope the same happens with Trump. But it looks like a bubble, and smells like a bubble. I hope it's not a bubble.
Nobody is claiming gains and losses are not part of it. Long term you will have both under both parties.
But policy does matter, and long term it should not be a race to the bottom which the GOP policies do. There should be no poverty in America with the GDP it has. But long term it is becoming harder for even the middle class to make ends meet.
As an aside, two other things news harps on which is a distraction and misses the point, are gas prices and stock market highs. It is the same bullshit distraction focusing on the daily when what is far more important are long term trends. This is the same short term focus that has idiots go "It's cold today so therefore climate change is a hoax."
Long term stability requires long term policy. Of course there will be dips but the stability is creating policy that makes those dips minimal and subject to quicker recovery.
