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Today Chancellor Merkel met Pres. Trump. Part of her discussion with the President was about the training of qualified
people for the American Industry. She promoted the two tier system used in German education as a model for the American system. If you want more foreign investment in the US, than you have to provide the qualified workforce to staff those facilities. Pres.Trump seemed to agree. We are now at a point where many manufacturing companies willing to invest in the US are having a big problem finding qualified people. In order to produce a high quality product you need highly trained people. Not just someone who fumbled his way into it. So before anybody can open a manufacturing plant in the US (other than making brooms and such) they will have to train a lot of people to bring them up to the standards of training in Europe. Otherwise the product they produce here will be mostly inferior and these companies will not take a chance on having their reputation ruined. Now - if they spend years and millions on training people they do not want someone else to raid their workforce.
So what is the answer?
All this big talk about making America great again is nothing but a balloon full of hot air. We just don't have the people anymore to do the job. Period.
It will take nothing less than another "Manhattan Project" to bring America back to where it is competitive in manufacturing. Unfortunately we are fast running out of people who could be the teachers.
We may be able to school or import a lot of people to work in Silicon Valley and as such we may produce a lot of computer programs. However we will have nobody to convert those programs into a product. Unless we farm it out, and that bypasses the manufacturing part.
So good luck Mr. President. You don't have the slightest idea of what you are talking about when you talk about bringing jobs back to the US.
In the old days we had a steady stream of trained people from Europe entering the manufacturing industry in the US.
Now we have a wave of untrained people that know how to sell in 7-11 stores etc. and people that by tradition know how to operate a business by knowing every way possible of getting around paying taxes.
The IRS is having a hard time to break into this since all this is conducted by family members in different countries. Money transfers are made on a so called honor system and no paper trail is available. Getting around paying taxes is a sport in many of these countries and if caught - an honorable thing that went wrong. But may be that is what our new President admires and everybody else is just plain stupid.
Ps.: Pls excuse the typo: A challenge to America.
people for the American Industry. She promoted the two tier system used in German education as a model for the American system. If you want more foreign investment in the US, than you have to provide the qualified workforce to staff those facilities. Pres.Trump seemed to agree. We are now at a point where many manufacturing companies willing to invest in the US are having a big problem finding qualified people. In order to produce a high quality product you need highly trained people. Not just someone who fumbled his way into it. So before anybody can open a manufacturing plant in the US (other than making brooms and such) they will have to train a lot of people to bring them up to the standards of training in Europe. Otherwise the product they produce here will be mostly inferior and these companies will not take a chance on having their reputation ruined. Now - if they spend years and millions on training people they do not want someone else to raid their workforce.
So what is the answer?
All this big talk about making America great again is nothing but a balloon full of hot air. We just don't have the people anymore to do the job. Period.
It will take nothing less than another "Manhattan Project" to bring America back to where it is competitive in manufacturing. Unfortunately we are fast running out of people who could be the teachers.
We may be able to school or import a lot of people to work in Silicon Valley and as such we may produce a lot of computer programs. However we will have nobody to convert those programs into a product. Unless we farm it out, and that bypasses the manufacturing part.
So good luck Mr. President. You don't have the slightest idea of what you are talking about when you talk about bringing jobs back to the US.
In the old days we had a steady stream of trained people from Europe entering the manufacturing industry in the US.
Now we have a wave of untrained people that know how to sell in 7-11 stores etc. and people that by tradition know how to operate a business by knowing every way possible of getting around paying taxes.
The IRS is having a hard time to break into this since all this is conducted by family members in different countries. Money transfers are made on a so called honor system and no paper trail is available. Getting around paying taxes is a sport in many of these countries and if caught - an honorable thing that went wrong. But may be that is what our new President admires and everybody else is just plain stupid.
Ps.: Pls excuse the typo: A challenge to America.
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