His post is located here: http://jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2012/07/corporatist-greed-causes-skilled-worker.html
Seriously though, I fell like putting my head in a vice every time I see stories about good paying manufacturing jobs going unfilled. We do have a problem with getting people into those fields, but solving it doesn't mean telling people in high school that "Universities and College aren't the answer" and it certainly doesn't mean talking up wages that are below $40,000 a year.If we are hanging our laurels on that as a nation about how "great" manufacturing jobs are... I gotta wonder.
Jake points out how Economics 101 pretty much can solve why we have the problems we have. Furthermore, as someone who presently is working in "manufacturing" I can tell you that the perception that it's low pay work is not that far off. I can also tell you that terms like "Mandatory Overtime" does nothing to promote people from getting into that line of work.
To hell with Herman Cain (remember him?) and his 9-9-9 plan. I want the 8-8-8 plan back. 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, 8 hours of rest. What happened to that plan? (Is the answer greed?)
Thanks for reading and thanks for the kind words! It's fairly obvious that this "shortage" is fallout from paying workers nothing, but for some reason, our media doesn't want to admit this fact.
ReplyDeleteProbably because it would make them ask tough questions about union-busting and free trade, and our media's corporate overlords aren't too keen on having that word get out.
Keep doing the right thing.
Thanks so much for the kind words yourself good sir! You're right, corporate media having to "expose" what it is party to probably wouldn't be on the top of their own lists of reporting.
DeleteI'm trying to keep doing the right thing :) Some days it's hard, but I keep on keeping on!