Larry Gude
Strung Out
If you're gonna be in a number of trades, in some places you have to be in the union, have qualifications, membership and it's rules.
If you're gonna be a doctor, nurse or dentist you have to be qualified. Perhaps even more so to be a vet.
Accountant, same thing.
Auto mechanics have all sorts of qualifications.
If you're going to be a contractor, you need to have all sorts of papers proving any number of qualifications.
Teachers, certified.
There is training and testing galore for all sorts of jobs including in ag where GAP, Good Agricultural Practices, teaches people from other cultures to NOT #### in the mum, or spinach, field.
When the plumber comes, even from a non union company, he may not have his card but you can be sure there is at least one master plumber in the company.
Military is one qualification after another. Computer people have certifications up the wazoo and ongoing training. Engineers. Scientists.
Now, as we enter September, it seems to me there are two areas that are pretty much totally free market and very much on our minds these days. One is the requirements to be a professional football player. A Ray Rice. A Colin Kaepernick. A Mike Vick. A Johnny Football. The other area where all you gotta do is be persistent and keep simply getting people to say "OK' with zero certification, not even the drug testing of football, is to be...
...one of the leading candidates for President of the United States of America.
Now, you can harrumph and try to polish this turd all you like but there is no requirement to be Sec State or a Senator or an MBA or a BA or even an associates or run a business, successful or up for debate, or even have a drivers license to show you've accomplished SOMETHING.
No. The total, free market gives us what we have and you'd not accept that in pretty much any other area of your life. Would you?
So, here we are.
If you're gonna be a doctor, nurse or dentist you have to be qualified. Perhaps even more so to be a vet.
Accountant, same thing.
Auto mechanics have all sorts of qualifications.
If you're going to be a contractor, you need to have all sorts of papers proving any number of qualifications.
Teachers, certified.
There is training and testing galore for all sorts of jobs including in ag where GAP, Good Agricultural Practices, teaches people from other cultures to NOT #### in the mum, or spinach, field.
When the plumber comes, even from a non union company, he may not have his card but you can be sure there is at least one master plumber in the company.
Military is one qualification after another. Computer people have certifications up the wazoo and ongoing training. Engineers. Scientists.
Now, as we enter September, it seems to me there are two areas that are pretty much totally free market and very much on our minds these days. One is the requirements to be a professional football player. A Ray Rice. A Colin Kaepernick. A Mike Vick. A Johnny Football. The other area where all you gotta do is be persistent and keep simply getting people to say "OK' with zero certification, not even the drug testing of football, is to be...
...one of the leading candidates for President of the United States of America.
Now, you can harrumph and try to polish this turd all you like but there is no requirement to be Sec State or a Senator or an MBA or a BA or even an associates or run a business, successful or up for debate, or even have a drivers license to show you've accomplished SOMETHING.
No. The total, free market gives us what we have and you'd not accept that in pretty much any other area of your life. Would you?
So, here we are.