Cheetoman coming to Milwaukee to campaign for Governor Doofus on Tuesday

[milestogo]

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will visit Waukesha County Technical College on Tuesday as part of his push to expand the nation’s use of apprenticeships to fill unmet labor needs, White House officials said.

Trump will tour the school with his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta and Gov. Scott Walker. The president will headline a political fundraiser afterward for Walker, who is up for re-election next year. The White House is using its visit to the school to publicize its goal to vastly “scale up” the use of apprenticeship programs to close a skills gap that is making it hard to fill many jobs in manufacturing and other sectors.

A four-year college degree “is not the right path for everyone,” said Ivanka Trump, who has visited and hailed Germany’s famed apprenticeship system as a model for the U.S. She said apprenticeships were a key to making sure “the next generation of the American worker is trained in the skills of the future.” White House aide Reed Cordish said the visit to WCTC would highlight the “marriage” between businesses and community colleges and technical schools when it comes to training workers to fill jobs that are locally available and in demand.

Wisconsin is an example of a blue-collar state with a relatively strong tradition, by U.S. standards, of apprenticeships.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/10/wisconsin-visit-tuesday-donald-trump-tout-apprenticeships-close-skills-gap/386499001/

Get ready to protest.

[luvMIdog]

1. too bad everyone can't 'rump' him like the British without getting arrested

[riversedge]

2. faculty union leaders at Milwaukee Area Technical College blasted Trumps budget proposals and said

Yet trumpbudget proposes cuts in education


........Last month, faculty union leaders at Milwaukee Area Technical College blasted Trump’s budget proposals and said they would undermine “the nation’s efforts to build a high-wage, knowledge-based economy by slashing support for career and technical education.”

[nevergiveup]

3. It will be nice to have fresh new pictures

of Walker and Trump together. They will come in handy in 2018.

[sandensea]

4. Quick: What do Walker and Melania have in common?

One sucks Koch for money; the other - well, you get the picture.

[ladym55]

5. A gathering of rocket scientists, that one

And I do greatly appreciate Ivanka telling the little people about the importance of apprenticeships.