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| Friederike Schulte, Director of Freiburg's Carl-Schurz-Haus, introducing US Consul General James W. Boje Hermann. |
In the following discussion, the consul agreed that bringing 20,000 miners back into their jobs would not change the statistics. In addition, it is a fact that the industry does not want any coal.
POTUS, too must have realized that he cannot revive outdated jobs. So on June 15, he signed the executive order, as the Daily Mail reported, Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow, that aims to create a new channel of approval for apprenticeships. He is calling on Congress to commit $100 million in new money to the initiative and expand the allowable uses of student financial aid so students can use the support for "earn while you learn" programs.
In fact, workers in the States, with their high salaries, will never compete with those people in both Chinas making baseball caps.
If "old" jobs cannot be brought back, the US must create other, new, and "better" ones. Those new jobs are becoming available in more complex technologies where learning by doing is no longer sufficient.
Here Ivanka Trump has influenced her father positively. During Angela Merkel's spring visit to the States, she sat with our chancellor, discussing the German dual education system. This system is nearly as old as Red Baron, who recalls that following high school, he went to Berufsschule (vocational school) during a practical year in a shipbuilding firm in Bremen once a week to learn the "theoretical" background of his practical work. To make a long story short: later, as a physicist, I knew how to drill a hole into aluminum (not easy!) and could operate a turning lathe.
On the one hand, POTUS has adopted one of Obama's favorite projects on the quiet while he is trying hard to replace Obamacare. Here another look at Germany would have shown him that replacing an existing health system with a better and cheaper one is impossible.
In the history of the Federal Republic, we have had at least five major reforms to our public health system aimed at making it less costly and more efficient. We always failed, for, in the end, any reform resulted in more bureaucracy and higher costs.
The entropy law of health systems goes like this: As hard as you may try, any existing or modified health system will become less efficient and more expensive with time.
POTUS, too must have realized that he cannot revive outdated jobs. So on June 15, he signed the executive order, as the Daily Mail reported, Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow, that aims to create a new channel of approval for apprenticeships. He is calling on Congress to commit $100 million in new money to the initiative and expand the allowable uses of student financial aid so students can use the support for "earn while you learn" programs.
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| POTUS smiles, having signed the executive order Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow |
If "old" jobs cannot be brought back, the US must create other, new, and "better" ones. Those new jobs are becoming available in more complex technologies where learning by doing is no longer sufficient.
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| Ivanka and Angela at a round table in Washington (©AP) |
On the one hand, POTUS has adopted one of Obama's favorite projects on the quiet while he is trying hard to replace Obamacare. Here another look at Germany would have shown him that replacing an existing health system with a better and cheaper one is impossible.
In the history of the Federal Republic, we have had at least five major reforms to our public health system aimed at making it less costly and more efficient. We always failed, for, in the end, any reform resulted in more bureaucracy and higher costs.
The entropy law of health systems goes like this: As hard as you may try, any existing or modified health system will become less efficient and more expensive with time.
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