Mike Rowe

[gcode]

https://x.com/mikeroweworks/status/1818766720313733131

A sad and interesting article on X

[Jeff]

It's by design IMO.
More people living off the gov't the better for them, and China.
It's all about controlling the population.

Give the younger crowd a massive scamdemic and have them grow up deathly afraid of every headline they read on social media. Flood social media with anti-democracy propaganda, anti-white, anti-jewish etc.. and they will believe it wholeheartedly until the day they die because it's all they've known.
Most people 50+ don't realize just how rampant this shit is online. It's fucking everywhere.

Brainwashing.

[Jim at Gentex]

https://x.com/mikeroweworks/status/1818766720313733131

A sad and interesting article on X

I have a ton of respect for Mike Rowe, and he is certainly preaching to the choir here! 

I have been saying for years that our trade is dying, and I have seen a direct correlation to the closing of Vo-Tech schools in our area, or if not closing them, just removing the so-called 'blue-collar' trades like Carpentry, Welding, Plumbing, and of course, Machine Shop.

Those courses have been mostly displaced by service-indusrty courses like Cosmetology, Horticulture, and Food Service, at least where I live here in PA.

So now we have a bunch of kids who graduate high school every year who can work in a beauty salon, flower shop, or restaurant, but ZERO of them can fix a toilet, or have ever even heard of a lathe or milling machine.

Good for Mike Rowe for encouraging young people toward the trades, because without Carpenters, Plumbers, Welders, Machinists, etc., our infrastructure will deteriorate and eventually collapse.

[Leehound]

A sad state our country has become.    Keep preaching Mike!

[Rstewart]

Every functioning adult (contributes to society) usually has something in common - Purpose.  When you have no need to get outta bed in the morning cause daddy Gov has your back - you lose purpose

All the old folks I know that are above ground, have that same thing in common

[neurosis]

I was wondering where he got his statistics or what article he was quoting. 

Found it. 


https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-labor-shortage

[CNCAppsJames]

Mike Rowe is a national treasure. 

No flash, no boom, just good old fashioned hard work. 

[gcode]

I blame the teachers unions too
I spent 6 months as a senior in a high school in Colorado.
They drug me into see the career counselor about once a month trying to get me to start applying to colleges
They were always banging on me that I'd never amount to anything if I didn't go to college.

[gcode]

Mike Rowe is a national treasure. 

One of the comments in that twitter feed said Mike would make an excellent Secretary of Education.
I think that poster was correct.

[JParis]

I think that poster was correct.

Can't be.

Department of Education should not exist.

[beej]

From the US Chamber article:

Additionally, women are participating in the labor force at the lowest rates since entering the labor force in meaningful numbers in the 1970s. In the spring of 2020, 3.5 million mothers left their jobs, driving the labor force participation rate for working moms from around 70% to 55%.

Even though there are more women working now than in February 2020, women's labor force participation rate has not yet fully recovered to its pre-pandemic rate or to when it was at an all-time high of 60.2% in early 2001.

In the Chamber's survey of unemployed workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic, 27% indicated that the need to be home and care for children or other family members has made the return to work difficult or impossible.

 
I actually think this trend is a healthy trend for the US. Not that I don't want women in the workforce, but if married women can afford to stay home and take care of their children, for one, it's a positive sign that the husband's income is covering the bills, and two, it's generally healthy for the children to be raised by their mother rather than daycare.

[JakeL]

I blame the teachers unions too
I spent 6 months as a senior in a high school in Colorado.
They drug me into see the career counselor about once a month trying to get me to start applying to colleges
They were always banging on me that I'd never amount to anything if I didn't go to college.

In case anyone's wondering, same thing happens now-a-days. My school counselors (and almost all my teachers) pushed me so hard to go to college.

[RobertELee]

Did anyone else read that with Mike Rowes voice in your head? Or was it just me?

[Brian]

I blame the teachers unions too
I spent 6 months as a senior in a high school in Colorado.
They drug me into see the career counselor about once a month trying to get me to start applying to colleges
They were always banging on me that I'd never amount to anything if I didn't go to college.

I was one of two kids at a hardcore college prep HS that *didn't* go to college, so yeah-I get it! It was a great school, and I'm very grateful for the education I got there, but nobody had any idea that there was anything good to be said for what I was going to do. During a meeting with the college counselor my mom totally reamed this woman-I don't think she was expecting this!

On occasion I wonder what would have unfolded if I'd gone off to study mechanical engineering, but on balance it's been a great adventure!

Sadly, most of the rest of our society looks down on what we do (if they even know what we do-LOL), but the older I get the less I care!

[mowens]

Nobody talked to me about going to college.

I remember we had a big assembly in the auditorium one time. The oil lamps on the wall smoked a lot so it was hard to see the stage. I was shocked when they came around and took away our clay tablets and sharpened sticks and started to talk about something called a "pencil". They said it was necessary because we were no longer going to be taught cuneiform. Instead, it was going to be something called "cursive". They said it was going to be the future.

Ha. Jokes on them.