Trades and the Radical Universities

Timothy Birdnow

In an article in NPR about the benefits of going into the trades rather than wasting time and (LOTS of) money on a four year bachelor's degree from Egghead U., the (no doubt liberal) authors of the piece hit on a point that might be overlooked.

From the article:

Construction, along with health care and personal care, will account for one-third of all new jobs through 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There will also be a need for new plumbers and new electricians. And, as politicians debate a massive overhaul of the nation's roads, bridges and airports, the U.S. Department of Education reportsthat there will be 68 percent more job openings in infrastructure-related fields in the next five years than there are people training to fill them.

"The economy is definitely pushing this issue to the forefront," said Amy Morrison Goings, president of the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, which educates students in these fields. "There isn't a day that goes by that a business doesn't contact the college and ask the faculty who's ready to go to work."

Well, isn't that special!

Just three years ago we were told that stagnant economic growth was the new norm and we should get used to it. But a nation that is building, as America obviously is, is not stagnant or in decline. Rather, it is a growing country! This dearth of trades people shows  that America's capitalist system is vibrant, and can only be killed by some insane governmental policy (like Barack Obama imposed during his tenure of office.)

This article makes other important points:

In a new report, the Washington State Auditor found that good jobs in the skilled trades are going begging because students are being almost universally steered to bachelor's degrees.

Among other things, the Washington auditor recommended that career guidance — including choices that require less than four years in college — start as early as the seventh grade.

"There is an emphasis on the four-year university track" in high schools, said Chris Cortines, who co-authored the report. Yet, nationwide, three out of 10 high school grads who go to four-year public universities haven't earned degrees within six years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. At four-year private colleges, that number is more than 1 in 5.

Now, why is that?

Well, for starters, it illustrates the power of Big Teach. Every teacher in school and every counselor has been educated in a college program and forced to take education courses. They are being taught to believe college is absolutely necessary. Who is teaching them? University professors, who have a vested interest in more college students - and more tuition money.

Colleges have become nothing but a shakedown of parents and a brainwashing exercise. Very little actual education occurs - especially at the pre-grad level. But the universities control the levers of power and they can compel young people to attend with the threat of poverty.  But there is a perfectly viable option, as this article points out.

Another point; if the trades are going unfilled then who is going to do the work?  Answer: aliens.  This is a vehicle for promoting immigration, both legal and illegal. I rather suspect the college stuffed shirts know this, too, and that is why they promote universal college at the expense of the trades. They WANT lots of immigration. They want it to expand their beloved Democratic Party. They want it to "right the wrongs" of America's lilly white founding. They want it to punish those hayseeds in Middle America who dare challenge their divine right to rule.

So how do you do it? Use your influence to cause a massive labor shortage and then bring a new populace into the country.

Eventually they'll make it obligatory to get a bachelor's degree just to do these jobs, to be iron workers or sheet rockers or whatnot. I promise you that is where they will go if more kids start moving into the trades.

I have a friend who has been an RN for thirty years. He got a bachelors in business, decided he didn't want to do that, so went and got an associates degree in nursing. During the Obama years the government mandated that an associates was not acceptable, and he had to go back and get a whole new degree in nursing, despite the fact the man has been a nurse for decades. It was a sop to Big Ed. It was not necessary. At a time when health care costs keep rising the last thing you want to do is make it more expensive to hire people, which is exactly what this did. Someone starting out with an associates degree would work for less and do as good a job. There is nothing more a classroom can teach. But the government decreed it anyway. See, it's not about what is good for the People or the economy. It's what is good for those in power.

Right now a labor dearth is good for those in power.

Eventually that will change. U.N. Agenda 21/30 advocates more "worker drone" education, meaning they want people trained to do manual labor and leave the thinking to the Big Brains. America will indeed comply; we've complied with much of what the U.N. was selling in this anyway. But they can't afford to do this until they pay off the universities, which is the citadel of Satan, the core from which all Progressive ideas generate. Colleges are the key to societal devolution. The left cannot afford to let this wonderful tool fade away. But they need to promote worker drones as well.

Obviously they'll make it necessary to get a degree in tradesmanship.

Doubt that? Again, from the article:


No doubt.

In all fairness, a big part of why American kids aren't going into the trades is that they are lazy. Manual labor doesn't suit them. They would rather be playing on a computer than working outside on a cold day, installing pipe or whatnot.

So college is the solution. It allows them to not make any decisions on their lives and at the same time to loaf about. They hope they will stumble into some very high paying job that requires little of them. It is unrealistic, but it's what they've been taught over the years.

Of course, that plays right into the hands of the immigrationists, who then can point to bad work ethic to demand allowing "hard working immigrants" to take "jobs Americans just won't do". And with the slothful nature of the Millenials, it is not a hard argument to make.

That's why American kids used to get jobs when they were teenagers. Now they don't, because the "living wage" means adults take those jobs and so do illegal aliens. Kids no longer have after school jobs and never learn a good work ethic. The end result is they are woefully unprepared for the labor force, but perfect for colleges, where they will stay for six years or so trying to "find themselves" all the while running up massive debt and owing Uncle Sam. And the builders and maintenance companies STILL need more people than they can find, so they look south of the border.

It's a machine, a self-reinforcing system that generates losers and brings in money to the colleges and aliens to supplant the lazy Americans.

At the heart of all this are the universities, especially the Ivy League. Until we circumvent these radical institutions America will continue to decline.

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