Expand trades, industrial arts programs
Special thanks to everyone helping us promote a good education for America and the expansion of the trades and industrial arts programs in America’s schools.
Just 30 years ago, junior high and high school students were offered reading, writing, math, history and a variety of trade classes like plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning, mechanics, carpentry, automotive as well as industrial arts classes like engineering, drafting, clothing design, manufacturing and welding that reflect skills needed by America’s businesses.
Closing down so many of the trade programs over the years continues to hurt America’s students and add to the skilled workers shortage in the United States.
With a new focus on the shortage of skilled workers in America, we look for America’s students to once again be exposed to many more aspects of education during their junior and high school years.
Additionally, every year there is a critical need to replace the skilled workers who are retiring. If America does not have enough young workers to fill jobs, businesses will continue to have reasons to outsource manufacturing around the world and downsize their domestic operations in the United States. We can’t allow this to continue, so it’s up to all of us to contact and urge national and local elected officials, local school boards, school superintendents and principals to expand the trades and industrial arts programs in every school possible.
When you call elected officials and school board representatives, ask them for a written reply for your records.
Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Email them to [email protected].
Michael Blichasz
Torresdale
Council embraces non-taxpayers
Kenyatta Johnson now wants to protect illegal immigrants from a “moral standpoint,” according to an Inquirer story. Here’s a man who wields councilperson’s prerogative like Gideon’s sword. Morals and City Council are words that should not be included in the same sentence. They are more concerned about non-taxpayers than they are about their constituents. Why don’t we all become non-taxpayers and not pay our real estate taxes on March 31. Maybe that will get their attention. Maybe they should do a cost assessment of the illegal population before they pass their grandstanding laws. Morals. You have got to be kidding me.
Richard Donofry
East Torresdale
Insanity
What is a woman?
That was the question asked to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing back in 2022. She famously stated that she couldn’t define “woman” because she wasn’t a “biologist.”
If she has a problem identifying what a woman is, I say look up Marilyn Monroe on Wikipedia, and then she’ll know what a woman is. I’m sure a million men who don’t have a biology degree have no trouble at all identifying Marilyn being a woman.
Throughout pop culture, from the start of the silver screen, audiences have been inundated by celluloid sex symbols from Jean Harlow to Marilyn Monroe to Raquel Welch to Brigitte Bardot.
The average adolescent male didn’t have any problem identifying what a woman is, especially when it came to the iconic pin-up girls who appeared in the 1940s to our soldiers during World War II with the famous Betty Grable poster, to the iconic Farrah Fawcett poster of the 1970s.
Furthermore, just recently at a Senate hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley repeatedly asked a board-certified OB/GYN doctor if “men can get pregnant and have babies.” The doctor refused to answer the question.
It’s from these insane individuals that they want us to believe that the image of what a woman is, is the image of drag queens Divine and RuPaul and to all the drag queens performing at elementary schools.
This is when the MeToo movement needs to step up if they really want to protect biological women from being eradicated in favor of transgenderism.
Thank God for Riley Gaines.
Al Ulus
Somerton
