According to Linda Brady, chancellor of UNCG:
"In 2011, an estimated 1,800 jobs went unfilled in Greensboro and High Point due to a lack of qualified applicants, according to a recent study led by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Greensboro. In an area with such a vast reservoir of intellectual capital, this is simply unacceptable."
If that were entirely true then the positions were most likely unnecessary in the first place. You see, having spent my life in the private work force I'm well aware that companies learn to make do with what they have until something better comes along. To make the claim that a job went unfilled would imply that the work never got done. And if the work didn't get done the companies wouldn't still be around to tell you they were unable to find qualified applicants. In other words, the Chamber of Commerce got played.
So what is really going on? While Chancellor Brady would have you believe it's about more of the kinds of programs offered at UNCG, companies really want more public investment in things like the Koury Hospitality Careers Center which lures young people in with the promise of fulfilling jobs in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Problem is: Greensboro and the surrounding area will never have enough hotels and restaurants to hire all these young managers. So the best and the brightest go off to other cities and states (the opposite effect of what our tax dollars were intended to do) while the rest settle for waiting tables, cleaning toilets and changing sheets while they wait for some manager to die off.
Training indian chiefs is okay, we need good chiefs to run the tribes. But we also must feed the indians and nothing Chancellor Brady or the rest of Greensboro's elite have proposed has ever addressed feeding the starving indians. And like it or not, if the tribes go hungry long enough, someday an angry young brave will rise up to beat the drums of war, unite the tribes and overthrow the fat and happy chiefs and their elite friends in high places. Don't believe me, Chancellor Brady? Check with the UNCG history department. It won't be the first time.
Will Linda Brady and I live long enough to witness the rising of that young brave? I don't know but I won't be one of his targets.
So how do you build a strong local economy and provide good jobs? It's proven to work, it creates more money for government, that was the link, click it.
"In 2011, an estimated 1,800 jobs went unfilled in Greensboro and High Point due to a lack of qualified applicants, according to a recent study led by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Greensboro. In an area with such a vast reservoir of intellectual capital, this is simply unacceptable."
If that were entirely true then the positions were most likely unnecessary in the first place. You see, having spent my life in the private work force I'm well aware that companies learn to make do with what they have until something better comes along. To make the claim that a job went unfilled would imply that the work never got done. And if the work didn't get done the companies wouldn't still be around to tell you they were unable to find qualified applicants. In other words, the Chamber of Commerce got played.
So what is really going on? While Chancellor Brady would have you believe it's about more of the kinds of programs offered at UNCG, companies really want more public investment in things like the Koury Hospitality Careers Center which lures young people in with the promise of fulfilling jobs in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Problem is: Greensboro and the surrounding area will never have enough hotels and restaurants to hire all these young managers. So the best and the brightest go off to other cities and states (the opposite effect of what our tax dollars were intended to do) while the rest settle for waiting tables, cleaning toilets and changing sheets while they wait for some manager to die off.
Training indian chiefs is okay, we need good chiefs to run the tribes. But we also must feed the indians and nothing Chancellor Brady or the rest of Greensboro's elite have proposed has ever addressed feeding the starving indians. And like it or not, if the tribes go hungry long enough, someday an angry young brave will rise up to beat the drums of war, unite the tribes and overthrow the fat and happy chiefs and their elite friends in high places. Don't believe me, Chancellor Brady? Check with the UNCG history department. It won't be the first time.
Will Linda Brady and I live long enough to witness the rising of that young brave? I don't know but I won't be one of his targets.
So how do you build a strong local economy and provide good jobs? It's proven to work, it creates more money for government, that was the link, click it.
