Subsidized Apprenticeship.

[WingDinger]

Had a thought. Not that the pols are ready to go beyond the bare minimum, but, we should subsidize apprenticeship in fields that are difficult to fill, or take years to master, require H1B's or outsourcing. Special tax breaks for those that start businesses in traditionally, at least lately, outsourced fields. Raise some protectionist walls to allow those confidence of customer base. Sort of an updated WPA. When this gets going in earnest, our economy would respond. Those businesses bouyed, could risk innovation.

Otherwise, we are seemingly dead in the water. Tax more heavily the fortunes laying fallow. Play or pay. Skew the playing field.

I'm getting tired of talking about what bribery and austere capitulations it is going to take to spur those given all the countries wealth for thirty years into business investment.

Sure, the Rethugs will squeal about issuing a stick with those carrots. SCREW THEM, and the trojan horse they rode in on.

[WingDinger]

1. By the way, this is not totally novel.

my last minute fillin teacher years ago was the man who testified to congress about this need. Congress responded with investment in machine trades training, for the vitality and national defense of our nation. Resulting in the training programs of the NTMA.

[MikeFoxtroters]

2. higher education push

there is way too much invested in pushing everyone toward higher education. This would contradict that and even though it would probably be very popular wouldn't actually go very far in becoming law because of the contradiction. Politics is awesome. :(

[WingDinger]

4. It could be sold with dire warnings of needing Chinese missile parts.

[NNN0LHI]

3. UAW once had a thriving apprenticeship program. I was one

We gave it all away.

Don

[WingDinger]

5. Add to this that schools teach only 3r's, and the need is critical.