Win!

Wheelerfreak said:
Back in the day it was. I tried the one that opened up again on the West side of ABQ a few years ago and it was meh. I was disappointed.
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The last one I knew of was on Lomas East of Wyoming. It's now a Los Quates.
Back Pizza Hut I remember when they built one in Kermit TX, up untill then if you wanted pizza you drove 60 miles to Odessa or bought a frozen one .
 
This sounds great, but I'm sceptical. At best your going to get a helper who
A. Gets there on time
B. Gets there on time
C Has a grounding in the vocabulary
D. GETS THERE ON TIME


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Help Is on the Way for Skilled Trades As Trump Adm. Rolls Out Pell Grant Program for High-Demand Jobs

Trump admin launches Pell Grant program for skilled trades, offering fast, affordable training for high-demand jobs.
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Help Is on the Way for Skilled Trades As Trump Adm. Rolls Out Pell Grant Program for High-Demand Jobs​

More often than not, America's young people are steered toward a four-year college degree as they go through high school and graduate. But as we have learned, either through our own or someone else's experience, college isn't for everyone. Sure, we need accountants and business majors, but we also need plumbers, pipefitters, and mechanics. The Trump administration is now recognizing the need to address the growing demand for skilled trade workers.



On Monday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced that the Trump administration would be introducing a first-of-its-kind Pell Grant program designed to get Americans into high-demand jobs more rapidly through short-term training and certification programs. McMahon went on to explain during an interview with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo that the program will allow students who qualify to use the grants for credentials and certifications that could lead to employment in as little as eight weeks.



In recent years, fields such as skilled trades, manufacturing, and healthcare have faced worker shortages. Professions included in the grant program include electricians, HVAC technicians, and carpenters. McMahon said of the program:

"We have to fill our workforce shortage. This is a new program – from eight to 15 weeks – where you can go in, get certifications and get into the workforce and get a job."
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The Pell Grant program for those wanting to enter skilled trades and other related fields is all part of more sweeping changes by the Trump administration of the federal student loan program. New annual caps on graduate professional school lending will be implemented. Those changes are designed to keep rising tuition costs down and push more students into what are now considered high-demand jobs in the workforce.



Workforce Pell helps students gain skills to graduate career-ready and fill in-demand jobs, sometimes in as little as 8 weeks.

I helped champion Workforce Pell in the Working Families @TaxCuts so that more young Americans can secure steady, good-paying jobs without taking on debt.
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Shortages in skilled trade professions are a serious issue. McMahon explained that for every five workers leaving a skilled trade profession, only two are replacing them. Fortunately, McMahon and President Trump have a lot of help getting young people interested in those skilled trade jobs. "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe, who has long been an advocate for skilled trades and related fields, started the "MikeRoweWorks" Foundation. The idea is to help those interested in these fields get trained for what Rowe calls "AI-proof six-figure jobs." Rowe also points out that training for these jobs doesn't leave trainees thousands of dollars in debt upon getting their certification. It's a message that GenZers are hearing loud and clear. So much so that it is earning them the nickname "the toolbelt generation."

Secretary McMahon went on to say that:


"If we don’t reinforce this (skilled trades) workforce, by 2030 we’d need about 2.1 million. As we are reshoring manufacturing and building anew in this country, we will have the workforce that we need. It’s vital that we do that."
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The Trump administration is doing an end run around traditional four-year colleges, which have become nothing more than unaffordable indoctrination centers, and giving young people who might have ended up there a much better option.
 
Sceep said:
I'm not seeing what the grants have to do with these 3 points? ^ :confused:
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First thing my instructor told us be on time. (Something my parents taught me) Hell I even had Union apprentices who showed up late. Some of them were smarter by book learning, than my on the job
SO BE ON TIME!
If you are on time and willing, I can teach you enough to do the job. I have even been known to explain in detail why including what bits of the science I know
 
Elwenil said:
Yes, if you are poor, then you will stay poor by getting free training for a low paying job.
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Plenty of people make an alright living out in the field doing **** with nothing more than a vocational school education.

And there's plenty of people with fancy degrees that are absolutely worthless.

It's almost like success isn't dependent on where you start in America.
 
87manche said:
Plenty of people make an alright living out in the field doing **** with nothing more than a vocational school education.

And there's plenty of people with fancy degrees that are absolutely worthless.

It's almost like success isn't dependent on where you start in America.
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Yeah, I get it, it's better than digging ditches. Pell grants are nothing new. A friend of mine got one to go to school years ago. He flunked out and had to pay a lot of it back. It just seems like it's a way to keep you in your lane. If you are low class, you get a low class job and stay low class.
 
Elwenil said:
Yes, if you are poor, then you will stay poor by getting free training for a low paying job.
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Total bull****. You can get a law degree for free if your grades are good enough and you are "low income". You can start working for a trade digging ditches and work your way up. You can do what ever you want in this country if you have the balls.
 
BDK said:
Total bull****. You can get a law degree for free if your grades are good enough and you are "low income". You can start working for a trade digging ditches and work your way up. You can do what ever you want in this country if you have the balls.
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"You could even be President, Little Timmy!"

Bull****. Yes, if you are smart, work hard and make good decisions, you can succeed , depending on what metric you measure "success" by, but if you have bad luck or the cards are stacked against you, you are just spinning your wheels.
 
BDK said:
Total bull****. You can get a law degree for free if your grades are good enough and you are "low income". You can start working for a trade digging ditches and work your way up. You can do what ever you want in this country if you have the balls.
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Women everywhere.....

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Elwenil said:
Yeah, I get it, it's better than digging ditches. Pell grants are nothing new. A friend of mine got one to go to school years ago. He flunked out and had to pay a lot of it back. It just seems like it's a way to keep you in your lane. If you are low class, you get a low class job and stay low class.
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So your buddy ****ed it away and had to pay it back, per the terms of the contract he signed when he got the free money, and that makes this bad?

Ideally we'd not subsidize anything, but at least this subsidizes useful learning and not gender studies degrees.
 
87manche said:
, and that makes this bad?
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What really makes this bad is when people who'd be screaming bloodey murder if they were the one losing money on the deal act like their buddy got swindled by having to hold up his end.

Pick a ****ing lane. Either contracts matter and ought to be fairly strictly enforceable or they don't.

There little no point in having rules and laws (and enforcing contracts with the law) if we're not all equal under them.

So much of the current **** is a direct or indirect result or, or aggravated by certain people's desire to have double standards under the law.
 
Elwenil said:
"You could even be President, Little Timmy!"

Bull****. Yes, if you are smart, work hard and make good decisions, you can succeed , depending on what metric you measure "success" by, but if you have bad luck or the cards are stacked against you, you are just spinning your wheels.
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season 8 episode 23 GIF
 
subybaja said:
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Why can't they spin the fancy mirror in circles and have the software and electronics be low latency enough that the aim point hasn't moved enough to matter by the time you do a follow up with the big laser?

Or spin it even faster and have it scan on one rev and fire on the next when it sees a mosquito sized object?
 
arse_sidewards said:
Why can't they spin the fancy mirror in circles and have the software and electronics be low latency enough that the aim point hasn't moved enough to matter by the time you do a follow up with the big laser?

Or spin it even faster and have it scan on one rev and fire on the next when it sees a mosquito sized object?
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And when it lands on your forehead? :laughing: :flipoff2:
 
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