What an Americans First week on both the domestic and international fronts. Trump-Rodmam-Kim “basketball diplomacy,” Trump’s Cuban cigar cut, echoes of former FBI Director Comey’s testimony, Attorney General Sessions testimony, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s expanding investigation, Republican Congressmen practicing baseball being shot at by a disgruntled American, the usual, or is it unusual, presidential tweets, and the Ivanka Trump led initiative to smarten up America instead of continuing to dumb it down. I started a blog on all of these Americans who put America first, hence the delay in getting this week’s blog out on time.
I decided to go with the smartening America’s Human Capital First. The President and his daughter Ivanka are to be applauded for their focus and advocacy of “workforce development week.” The Trump administration’s initiatives on vocational training, apprenticeships and legislative priorities, like college affordability, all topics I discuss at length in my book Custom Maid Knowledge for New World Disorder, is what America – Congress, state legislatures in all 50 states, and We the Maids — should be focused on sweeping in, as we sweep out all the political bipartisan warfare nonsense.
The first daughter and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta visited a Technical College in Waukesha County, Wisconsin advocating the development of student programs to determine early on one’s vocational aptitude and promoted the development of trade schools for those not suited to go to university. I went to such a high school in Israel, not that I agree with the placement I was judged suited for.
Ivanka told reporters she first took interest in apprenticeships and vocational training while meeting voters on the campaign trail. She also got to learn about the German apprenticeship model from meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German business leaders.
The German apprenticeship model is widely viewed as a success, with about a third of students enrolled in some type of vocational training. While visiting Berlin in April, the first daughter toured a Siemens apprenticeship training center.
“A skill-based education is an enormous priority” for the administration, she said during the visit. On Friday, she called vocational training a “bipartisan issue,” noting the administration has been working closely with business leaders, trade groups, congressional leaders, governors, educators, academics and students to put America’s human capital first!
The building industry, which the first family knows well, has deep ties to apprenticeship programs, partly because construction work requires certifications by trade groups. The administration is looking for ways to encourage other industries to do the same. About time!
Why aren’t our political representatives joining hands with the administration in a bipartisan drive to smarten America’s human capital now? Isn’t the time We do long overdue?