I’ve seen Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame on Fox and Friends and on Glenn Beck talk about the importance of training our young people for jobs that are going begging. Today he mentioned Tulsa Welding School to which he offers scholarships—it has 800 jobs it could fill, if it had the students. He has a foundation to support scholarships and has published a book, Profoundly disconnected.
He said that at the height of the recession in 2008, he was filming at locations that had “help wanted” signs. There were not enough trained American workers to do the “dirty jobs.”
Meanwhile, Rowe is being attacked for making an ad for WalMart (he did the voice over) which talks about the value of hard work, and that Wal-Mart will be investing $250 billion in the American economy and American made products in the next decade. On his Rowe’s FB page Sean Murray says, “I thought you were good person. But I just saw your AD that WAL-MART paid for. Your a corporate suck, Rowe.” And that’s mild compared to some I read.
So those who griped that Wal-Mart had too many foreign made products and didn’t pay their workers enough, who picketed their construction sites, are now complaining that Wal-Mart is helping the U.S. economy. This means it was never about American jobs or American workers, but about trying to destroy a very successful business.
If you want to see hate in action from the ridiculously uninformed anti-capitalists, just read the comments submitted to these videos. You wonder if they even watched them, or only saw it was about Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart haters have their own Facebook page.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-wal-mart.html
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