A Readers View
by Dan Pearson
The only place I see green technology being integrated right is in California. There are companies that take the inner city youth and train them in the fields of solar panel installation, retrofitting buildings, green rooftops, etc (link at bottom of page, one example.)
In the Midwest if your not an engineer your chances of getting your foot in the door are slim to none. I believe this creates a major gap between the educated and uneducated (which in this country we know is not accessible to everyone). We will never build a middle class in America with the declination of College Institutions being in the state their in. Life skills are not being taught.
America now ranks as one of the most undereducated countries in the world(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/13/national/main838207.shtml), yet most graduates find themselves 70 to 80k in debt in an economy that’s not hiring. This is a major problem. I know first hand.. I went to school and when I got out in the field, I was retrained in a more real life way. It only took about a week to find out I could have apprenticed my way up and that nobody gave a hoot about my little certificate piece of paper, or my accolades I obtained in school.. Still I was 24,000 dollars in debt to an institution that had no concern of my future but loved sending me my bill. It made me realize that our educational system in mimicking, banking system, and that system is mimicking our governmental system and then everything became clear. Most people in higher places have for along time understood, to put people in debt is the best way to (without sounding too harsh) really enslave us.
I think we need to start from our grass roots again; our brothers and sisters, neighbors and family need to help one another out and stop sending all of our hard earned money to these institutions and keep it in our communities and privately owned business. One of the people I look up to on issues like this is Catherine Austin Fittz you might want to check her out at solari.com . Truth of it is, America needs a whole new way of putting people back to work. The Teddy Roosevelt’s of yesteryear are gone.. you know, those people that understood how to put men and women to work and built the greatest country in the world. There is nothing equal to field training and/or apprenticeship, nothing! I’m sick and tired of this mythological green movement that is ever so elusive being the next comparative thing to the computer era or automotive era yet the only way to do it is become an engineer? I’m sorry, the basics of electricity are not that hard, then you can work with a mentor from that point on.. Every job posted I see is for an engineer! I’m getting too old (35) and I am too broke to go back to another school that’s going to suck another 20k out of me.
In a perfect world, there would be someone out there that understood this gap, someone that understood that the only way to really learn something is to mess it up enough times until you get it right. To have someone with you that had been there and had done it, to educate you along the way.
I write this not only because I’m just looking to make a paycheck. This new technology excites me, I want to be a part of something that’s positive in what seems to be such a negative time. Most of all I want to see our men and women working gain, and not just let the Chinese take and do everything for us. As patriots, we should be very weary of globalists and return more back to an isolationist view, I personally think. Thanks once again for your time, and I hope for brighter futures for us all.
Heres a good referance and story that simulates the innovations: needed.http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_green_gap
But really there’s hundreds more, just Google inner city youth back to work California.
Chicago’s mayor also is leaping ahead nicely.
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