Is ANYONE buying this "Apprentice" horseshit? ANYONE?

[Miles Archer]

Spin, spin, spin. Jesus.

[brucefan]

1. No

Wait, what?

[Miles Archer]

3. Trump's starting an "Apprentice" program...

...he's going to train and educate workers for high-paying jobs. Big jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Big.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Sounds a lot like cheap or even unpaid labor...

another corporate giveaway. Not buying anything Trump is selling.

[luvMIdog]

4. NO. Jerry Falwell is there to put the zealot theology on all things education - yippee :(

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. I dont want to know about it, what I know is half of this country

WANTED to destroy the country and they did.

Time to start over, problem with that is Putin is waiting in the wings to take your house and car.

Putin is hoping we have a civil war so he can come in and take everything.

We lose no matter what.

[anneboleyn]

6. Nope, so many problems. One of the reporters said "this sounds like indentured servitude"

[bdamomma]

7. he is such a con and his talk is cheap.

and has such low opinion of the American people

[golfguru]

8. Seems to work great in Germany

and many other European countries.
I have not studied United States situation to post a meaningful opinion.

[Blue_Roses]

11. So why post this then?

Nt

[golfguru]

17. My golden rule----

Always learn from what actually works in practice.
In my 37 years in design and manufacture of heavy machinery, I learned to pay more attention to what actually works, and less attention to theoretical analysis which decried against it.

Apprenticeship practice has been working in Germany going back to WWII. German economy is the strongest in Europe, with much less foreign trade deficits than United States based on GDP. Therefore I do not wish to pooh pooh apprenticeship initiatives with a knee jerk reaction, simply because the orange haired man is pushing it.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. If it's Trump

It must be awful. He doesn't give a shit about workers, so this must be to benefit his friends in the big corporations.

[WhiteTara]

10. Didn't most of the CEOs pull out of his little

round table?

[Miles Archer]

13. According to the press conference, they are all REALLY EXCITED to start

The ONLY thing that's going to "excite" CEOs is free labor. After that, not so much.

[Atman]

12. His ass-licking supporters.

And the Richy-Riches who want him to stay in office long enough to give them another massive tax break.

[haele]

14. Probably a program similar to the training wage subsidy scam industry and corporations use...

...to hire GED students and retrained unemployed people for six months to a year as a first job in a particular field or skill. And then, the employees get dropped down to part time or laid off as soon as the government stops paying 50% of wages.

Living in an urban job desert (low income/minority-majority neighborhood), I've met more than a few people who have never worked job at a major retailer/fast food corporation for more than a year on "training wages" because of policies like that; and they've always either replaced or been replaced by another training wage employee.
True, these people I've met may have been on the lower end of the functional spectrum, but apparently to the corporate mind (and to the typical privileged prosperity gospel follower), there's way too many people that are similar enough looking for work to allow these not as competitive "go-getters" the dignity of full time job at a living wage.

Haele

[politicat]

15. It's a long-standing program.

It's nothing new. So it's all spin.

[BigmanPigman]

16. I wonder if his coal mining base will apply.