Suppose Trump Could Create 1.2 Million Good Jobs with a Pen Stroke

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Suppose Trump Could Create 1.2 Million Good Jobs with a Pen Stroke
 
By David North on December 23, 2019

Suppose the president could create 1.2 million good jobs — paying $50,000 to $100,000 and up each year for citizens and voters.

Suppose there would be no need to pass any laws or spend any of the taxpayers' money.

Suppose, right now, that the jobs would go to people in the fly-over states, like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, to people without college degrees, to unemployed coal miners, to soybean farmers, to small town merchants, and to evangelicals.

Or suppose, in the last administration, the jobs would have gone to big city minorities, Hispanics, gays, women, and to union members.

Don't you think, given the first set of beneficiaries that Trump would have done something about it, and given the second set, that Obama would have taken action? But the victims, as a group, do not match either of the descriptions above.

https://cis.org/North/Suppose-Trump-Could-Create-12-Million-Good-Jobs-Pen-Stroke

[PeteS in CA]

If one reads far enough into the article, one learns that the writer is railing against H1B visas and imagines such jobs are fungible commodities that anyone off the streets could do. In reality - and I am speaking from several decades' experience and observation - many/most are specialized, requiring specific specialized education and experience. IOW, magically ending H1B visas would not at the same magical time magically give 1.2M Americans those jobs. Do I need to dive into the decades-long scandal of American public education and derision of technical people? And do I need to say more about liberal arts degrees than just the words?