The Monstrous Elephant in the Room

For decades our public education system has pushed the mantra, "Every child ready for college". As a former educator I often wondered why this was the focus and just how well this would pan out down the road for our country.

Now, with the new conservative administration pushing a policy of providing jobs for the middle-class American who's unemployed, there seems to be a problem. There is currently a huge disconnect between unfilled jobs in the nation and unemployed as is pointed out in the recent interview on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd and Mike Rowe.

At about the 3:45 minute mark in the discussion, Chuck Todd asks:

“Why can’t we connect, because there are about I think 7 million unemployed – for the 6.2 million unfilled jobs?” Todd asked as Rowe laughed. “Is this an issue – I’ve had a theory that one of the problems we’ve had over the last generation is we’ve lacked domestic migration.”

 My immediate reaction, which I almost wanted to shout out at my computer screen was, "Because your president encouraged people to get onto to food stamps and SSI subsistence instead of re-educating, or retraining themselves, and leech off the government, you dumb ass!" DUH!!!

Watching this video will be edifying, to say the least, about the condition our nation is in when it comes to skilled labor. I've heard more than once, that, if our nation were put in a situation similar to the post Pearl Harbor today, our ability to gear up and shift the workforce into production of the needed materials to win a war, we would fail badly because the poor work ethic alone would not provide the necessary output.