Some of the questions that I get are “How come with all the people out of work the government isn’t putting them on their payroll for some of the infrastructure projects?”
That is a great question and I have a partial answer. Unlike the Great Depression, there are a lot of jobs that need specialization or certain skills to get done. Sure, you can always use a strong back with a pick and a shovel but you do require some skillsets to build a hydroelectric dam or to insure that freeways are built to withstand thousands of tons worth of pressure day in and day out.
Back in the Great Depression you still had room for more manual labor and I think that machines have replaced a lot of the grunt work that people use to do for better or worse. Do we really need men standing around mixing cement when a machine can do it faster? Well, China might think so since they go out of their way to employee people to keep them working.
Can we do something similar here in the United States? Possibly. There have to be programs to get grants and funding to businesses that will be employing people and doing manufacturing. There has to be more of a commitment to developing and supporting U.S. citizens in terms of business and generating income. Other nations do it with their population. We need to stop shooting ourselves in our collective feet and start getting business moving faster here in the United States.
Like millions of other Americans and even people around the world, I am sick of hearing the words “It will get worse before it will get better”. Okay, but why? Because our leaders have mismanaged things for the last several decades? How about we start doing something practical like getting business going at the city, county and state level.
Business should support any kind of domestic training and/or on-the-job training for special skills. It would work naturally because people can be loyal if management takes the time and shows them what a good deal they have working for them. There can be work-training contracts similar to other industries where you commit to working two years after you are trained otherwise you need to reimburse the employer for training costs (if you are fired, that doesn’t count). Several police agencies do that already for their police academy programs in order to protect themselves from having their highly trained graduates snagged to go work for neighboring cities or states (though that happens in Los Angeles from what I understand fairly regularly).
There are no shortage of great ideas and the samples that have been proposed should be ample if they are fleshed out. Yes, there is always potential for fraud and waste but that is a smaller issue than getting people working again. Our country needs it and the world needs it if we are to continue on as world leaders or even as global participants in the workings for the future.
What do you guys and girls think?
May 28 2009
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Kim Isaac Greenblatt
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