The post included a clip from "Real Time with Bill Maher" where "Dirty Jobs" Host Mike Rowe said:
“A trillion dollars in student loan debt right now. A trillion dollars. We are lending money that we don’t have to kids that will never be able to pay it back to educate them for jobs that no longer exist.”
We don’t have a lack of jobs available in this country. We have a workforce that lacks the technical skills it needs to fill the millions of vacant jobs that are currently being offered.
The Progressive Bill Maher seemed to agree. This last week, the Conservative Glenn Beck also seemed to agree in an interview he did with Mike Rowe. This is a bipartisan issue. It can easily have bipartisan solutions if we only realize the problem at hand, and figure out a way to change this conversation.
"If you want to be successful, you need to go to college," we are told. However, college graduates today are graduating with degrees expecting a job to be there waiting. Meanwhile, he explains, there are over three million jobs that are going unfilled because they require a vocational degree rather than a four-year degree.
He explains that the idea that "everyone needs to go to a four year university" is the result of a 70's PR Campaign that has sunk well into the minds of Americans today. Vocational school has become "alternative education" or something you only do if you can't handle a four-year college. This is an artificial image, and leads to a huge amount of unfilled jobs in the industry that can best grow our economy - production. These aren't bad jobs, these are good jobs that have been made to look bad by the artificial image produced around them.
It looks like there's at least one leader out there who's found a solution to this problem: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
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