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Will NPR Snobs View Trade School Graduates As Cultural Equals?
Students should be encouraged to consider these occupations if they are naturally imbued with mechanical aptitude.
However, the sorts of leftwing elites that gravitate towards NPR need also be asked a question or two regarding their own promotion of this alternative career path.
Should students pursue a trade school rather than the academic route, will the biases of technocrats result in a sort of caste system where those not credentialed in the liberal arts or higher science backgrounds NPR types prefer as their equals be excluded from weighing in on cultural concerns?
Punitive sanction might be imposed upon any daring to raise a voice beyond the narrow concerns of their servile guild craft.
In the olden days, this used to be looked down upon as articulating opinions above or harboring aspirations beyond one’s station.
Already teachers look down upon parents that raise concerns seen as infringing upon a profession that the parents have themselves not been schooled in.
It must also be noted that many of these trade jobs are highly paid because they are quite frankly labor intensive and often downright dangerous.
So what will be done with those pushing into their late 40’s and early 50’s whose bodies are worn out by that point but who do not have the academic qualifications to move on into work considered more white collar in nature?
Sure the pay is good when one is able to bust one’s back.
But soon as the back is busted, some of these employers are ready to toss aside workers that barely missed a day the previous twenty years if the employee is unable to return to the job full steam ahead a month after surgery to repair injuries aggravated by these glories of proletarian labor advocated by this vanguard that hasn’t lifted a finger at all.
By Frederick Meekins
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Municipalities Take Aim At Basic Liberties
The town of Deerfield, Illinois has enacted a regulation banning assault weapons.
Those violating the ban could face fines of up to $1000 per day.Will progressives that tossed a fit over Sheriff Joe Arpaio taking it upon himself to enforce the national immigration laws that the federal government refused to get as worked up over mere town ordinances contradicting what might be allowed under state and federal law?
What other products otherwise perfectly legal in a state might municipal aldermen take upon themselves to ban?
For motorist safety, what if a town decided to forbid residents from owning compact automobiles that rolled off the assembly line after a given year since in traffic accidents such vehicles often have about as much structural integrity as the average soda can?
What, if in order to protect pedestrians, a town passed legislation insisting that smartphones present such a threat of distraction that it is not enough to restrict when these devices can be used but that these gadgets must be banned altogether within the boundaries of a specified jurisdiction?
While we are at it, if local authorities possess the power to ban products deemed legal by the state granting the municipality the right to exist in the first place, why not certain behaviors or even relationships?
For example, if the representatives of Deefield, Illinois insist that if those electing them to office want to live in a town without firearms it is their right to do so irrespective of how neighboring jurisdictions might decide to order their own affairs, on what grounds then should some backwoods enclave be forbidden from retaining laws against sodomy or promulgating a decree refusing to accept the validity of gay marriage?
By Frederick Meekins
