Navy warship production hits 25-year low, falls behind China: report
Submitted 3 months ago by wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee to conservative@lemm.ee
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/navy-warship-production-hits-25-year-low-falls-behind-china-report
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I agree with this part so much. Instead of free college, we need free trade and technical schools. Good paying jobs, typically union with pensions and we have a huge shortage.
cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To reach across the divide for a handshake:
This is something Biden and many progressives have been pushing for,
Free community college/trade schools: whitehouse.gov/…/readout-of-white-house-meeting-o…
Advanced manufacturing training and jobs in the US: whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administ…
And even pushing paid apprenticeships: whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs…
And specifically in shipbuilding and getting the workforce where it needs, both in private ships and the military, the admin is moving in the right direction, opening new shipbuilding yards, getting people to train up, and putting in ship orders whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-white-house-announces…
Getting more manufacturing back in the US, becoming more self sufficient, and having dignified employment are all my goals as a progressive too, and I’m really happy there’s movement from the current administration in their areas (despite complaints in other areas)
(I used all Whitehouse links as a from-the-horses mouth source, but there are plenty of articles about each)
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
In the old days, companies used to provide all of these as benefits.
IBM used to take high school graduates, let them work for a few years, and then pay them to go to college and pay for their tuition.
IBM was not unique, my friend did something similar for Honeywell. They paid him to get his master’s degree and paid for the degree.
Companies wonder why employees don’t have loyalty and the answer is simple, they are not the same companies they used to be.
JD Vance has said we need to focus more on fighting companies. I wish they would focus more on his views and the voting base would agree with them.
time.com/…/jd-vance-trump-business-community-sepa…
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 months ago
What’s wrong with an educated population?
randompasta@lemmy.today 3 months ago
An educated population is the only way we can compete on the world stage.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 3 months ago
They don’t vote against their best interests.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you think high skill trades aren’t an education? I don’t think they are saying anything against a traditional university education, but more supporting skilled trades as well.
hohoho@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why shouldn’t we have both?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
If we made college free, we would restrict college to only the best and brightest. That is how the rest of the world does it.
I prefer our current system where it is available to anyone.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 months ago
While I am not a conservative, I may agree with you strongly on education. College degrees are massively overinflated in value and propped up by government-backed student debt. We need to get away from this idea that everyone needs to go to college to secure their best life because we critically need these trade skills in the economy, in conjunction with policies that support these workers.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I know people with master’s degrees who work in construction. They could have saved a lot of time and money by entering construction from the start.
There is nothing wrong with a trade. Most of my family works in a trade.
I think the problem is people have focused on college degrees as being magical, and people rush to get them without thinking how they will benefit them or make them employable.
Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters all make good money.
If we every want to grow out middle class, that is how we do it.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Personally I’d prefer if we didn’t have to hyperfocus on one specific skill, where demand could suddenly dry up at any moment for any number of reasons, to have to support ourselves.
A huge factor in our stagnation is that we promise people stability if they do this one thing… then we have to cater to that one thing for the next fifty years because they now have no other way to support themselves. So we keep pandering to coal miners and corn growers and whatever else.
Education should not be tied this closely with economy. It should be about growing and expanding our horizons, our ability to better understand the world around us and the people around us. Not about how best to be stuck in the same career for the next 50+ years.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Most agree. Corn is a little different as are most food crops. They’re fairly versatile in what they can be used for but otherwise I agree
I’ve done many things in my life by my core education for the most part was the binding factor.
My core education allowed me to explore many things while still being tied. Now liberals mock me because I’ve explored many things but doesn’t that make life fun?