Posted on 01/31/2017 4:49:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The administration of President Donald Trump wants manufacturing jobs to make up about a fifth of the American workforce, said Peter Navarro, tapped by Trump to lead the newly created National Trade Council.
Navarro told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday that part of his job at the National Trade Council is matching the needs of industry with the skills of U.S. workers.
"We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing," he said. "And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room."
"We're talking about high technology across the board, whether it's computer chips or cars or anything in between," said Navarro, a Trump campaign policy advisor and formerly a business professor at the University of California, Irvine....
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I used to think its weakness was the rigidity and lack of choice.
Then I met a Stanford Engineering professor who had started out on the vocational track in Germany. He worked as an aircraft mechanic for a while and decided he wanted to be an Engineer. So he re-took the qual tests and ended up at Göttingen and did his BS/PhD there.
Normally that's not possible - IF you want to go for free. But the system does allow you to pick and choose if you pay for it.
IOW the basic track is state sponsored, but they do have a discretionary track that simply means you pay your own way.
To me it made the whole system make sense.
Yep. We need to stop subsidizing liberals at colleges and universities handing out worthless degrees to people who don’t belong there in the first place.
“To me it made the whole system make sense.”
I’m sure it does, but I prefer our freewheeling system. Or maybe I should say the system as it was when I was in school.
“Normally that’s not possible”
That’s the main weakness, I think: not enough leeway for the late bloomer.
So we’re going to try being white as Wonder bread, returning women to their God-given vocation, clobbering anyone who attacks us and making life very uncomfortable and short for traitors?
Sounds like a plan to me. Germany did very well with that formula.
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