Guess who I just got a fundraising email from? (Hint: the last name will remind you of a card game.) And interesting couple of paragraphs: The latest nasty lie from Hillary? That she is crushing me in fundraising.
This claim is laughable. I can write my campaign a check at any time (and have).
So it sounds like DT hasn't totally eschewed self-funding, although we goes on to boast how much his previous fundraising email raised.
You know, I think even Bernie is putting too much emphasis on college. I think we should be talking an equal amount about trades. You know, plumbers, electricians, welders, mechanics and so on. Not everyone is inclined to college and if everybody gets an education that puts them in a cubicle or an office who is going to keep the lights on?
Most of the trades you've mentioned are learned through apprenticeships. Hopefully, union apprenticeships. And the impression I get is that the number of people seeking those apprenticeships considerably exceeds the number of openings available. Which are largely determined by the unions' estimates of future demand.
I was reading a story today about how the ten million or so missing people in the labor force are mostly young men without college educations, who would typically be in the construction trades--but there isn't enough construction underway to employ them. The writer suggested a massive infrastructure and housing construction program. Sounds good to me.
There are certainly trad schools. But the trades they teach are not the high-paying unionized trades that Susan was enumerating.
And while I'm not sure how many new houses we need (speaking as someone very happy in a house built almost 130 years ago), I think we would all benefit from new infrastructure. Shall we start with high-speed rail?
Oh, and I am now reminded that the story I read pointed out that most of those young men absent from the workforce are living in the South, where the jobs are not. So another part of the suggested program was to help these mostly unattached young men not only learn how to do the work, but help them move to where the jobs are.
listener and her squeeze are first today!
ReplyDeleteMoved, seconded and carried! Forty-two years IS a very good start. Have a happy you two, and many more.
DeleteAlan
Happy Anniversary!
DeleteGood timing too. My parents' forty-fifth was yesterday.
Guess who I just got a fundraising email from? (Hint: the last name will remind you of a card game.) And interesting couple of paragraphs:
ReplyDeleteThe latest nasty lie from Hillary? That she is crushing me in fundraising.
This claim is laughable. I can write my campaign a check at any time (and have).
So it sounds like DT hasn't totally eschewed self-funding, although we goes on to boast how much his previous fundraising email raised.
You know, I think even Bernie is putting too much emphasis on college. I think we should be talking an equal amount about trades. You know, plumbers, electricians, welders, mechanics and so on. Not everyone is inclined to college and if everybody gets an education that puts them in a cubicle or an office who is going to keep the lights on?
ReplyDeleteMost of the trades you've mentioned are learned through apprenticeships. Hopefully, union apprenticeships. And the impression I get is that the number of people seeking those apprenticeships considerably exceeds the number of openings available. Which are largely determined by the unions' estimates of future demand.
DeleteI was reading a story today about how the ten million or so missing people in the labor force are mostly young men without college educations, who would typically be in the construction trades--but there isn't enough construction underway to employ them. The writer suggested a massive infrastructure and housing construction program. Sounds good to me.
DeleteAlan
There aren't trade schools? Hmmm.
DeleteThere are certainly trad schools. But the trades they teach are not the high-paying unionized trades that Susan was enumerating.
DeleteAnd while I'm not sure how many new houses we need (speaking as someone very happy in a house built almost 130 years ago), I think we would all benefit from new infrastructure. Shall we start with high-speed rail?
Oh, and I am now reminded that the story I read pointed out that most of those young men absent from the workforce are living in the South, where the jobs are not. So another part of the suggested program was to help these mostly unattached young men not only learn how to do the work, but help them move to where the jobs are.
DeleteAlan
Don't know if others have heard, but an email from DFA just informed me that Zephyr Techout won her New York Congressional primary.
ReplyDeleteWOOT! Thanks for sharing, Bill.
DeleteAlan
Go, Zephyhr!
DeleteThe title reminds me: Alan, did you notice that on Jill Stein's contributions page one of the set amounts is $42?
ReplyDeleteCan't say as I did--but 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...
DeleteAlan
It certainly is, you hoopy frood, you. 8)
DeleteVia Facebook:
ReplyDeleteAndrew C. White
2 hrs ago·
In NY-19... with 393 of 509 election districts reporting:
Zephyr Teachout: 11,090 - 74.82%
Will Yandik: 3,691 - 24.90%
In Stephentown it was:
Zephyr - 67
Yandik - 2
Thank you Stephentown and Thank you NY-19!
Congratulations Zephyr Teachout!
75:25? Well, I guess that will do. [chortle]
DeleteAlan
Yeah, not bad. *smirk*
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