In this case they donât. All theyâre examining is statute and the record not DJTâs speech. Scotus isnât part of a political debate; itâs job is to decide what the law allows - not what the President says or exaggerates.
And nothing DJT has said or is saying is a part of it since its not sworn under oath.
Truly fascinating because all the bragging that happens on this topic publicly - everywhere - all at once, isnât under oath.
Ultimately, he can simply say âWell I donât know anything about it; I was told.â
There are plenty of people who think the world is flat, vaccines and Tylenol cause autism, the moon landings are faked, wind turbines cause cancer, and if a woodchuck delineates seasons, but that does not mean they are given the same weight in civil discourse or rational thought among those capable of such.
One of the worst 20th century mind virusâ is equality of thought or lack thereof. The denial of evidence given the same platform, as the evidence itself is one of the worst tragedies of the age of the internet.
Proving there is ALWAYS a downside, the bill to reopen the Government includes this gem in what get funded currently --âand the operations of Congress.â
So they reached a deal to begin to undo the problem that they are actively implicit in. What an achievement.
I will also dig holes and then get paid to fill them in because who else is gonna fill the holes?
I mean, the holes shouldnât of been there in the first place. And they woulda never been there if I had the shovel 4 years ago.
I should be awarded a purple star. At least. You know, I got a ribbon once that was purple. It was beautiful - you never seen anything like it. So, I know what itâs like.
The sad thing to me is they closed agencies and cut jobs to put working people out of work. Those people have to apply for SNAP for the first time in their lives and are now called âlazy.â Next, they will lose SNAP unless they work. At what job? Will they give them back the job they were doing perfectly fine in?
I know a lot of new grads who canât find work because there is no work, because they are competing with people who have experience who lost their jobs because of DOGE. You canât work if there are not enough jobs.
Around here, the kids coming home from college* for a month arenât finding their seasonal jobs. Companies arenât hiring for themâneither stores, restaurants, nor various âplay zonesâ, etc. Not even the summer employers. And if someone is hiring, they are prioritizing (overqualified) applicants who have more experience in full-time positions.
Itâs only anecdotal, but itâs a difference this year from several previous years.
And Iâm not sure how college students who work during the summer and during the holidays are represented in unemployment data.
(*My own college kid kept their summer job, but they arenât hiring more help, and the fight for holiday overtime pay assignments is brutal, when itâs usually the default that younger staff without their own families take those assignments.)
And college kids are having to go through three rounds of interviews just to get a job at McDâs. And some of them are not getting those jobs, either. These are good kids with good grades with nothing that would normally prevent them from getting hired. Itâs that bad of a job market.
At a time when even Harvard has an internal report calling for a curb on grade inflation.
A college degree no longer means anything can be assumed about its holder. Hence more rounds of interviews to determine what the applicant knows and who the applicant is. Some people still get educated others earn the identical credential without being educated. Makes it tougher for employers.
How much knowledge does anyone need to work at McDâs? You donât even need to know math anymore, as the machines do all the calculations. Are only the smartest people allowed to eak out a living? Anyone else who canât get a job is âlazyâ?
The last time I checked (and it has been quite a few years ago when I actually was still in the corporate rat race), the AVERAGE GPA at Harvard was an A+.
Seriously? There is no way in hell I would hire someone from there because it would be next to impossible to differentiate between all those âspecialâ graduates.
True story from my MBA days when not many people were getting them. Full disclosure â 50 years ago this year from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL.
When I graduated we did not have to do a thesis â we had to sit for an all day âcase studyâ. We all came in and sat in a large lecture hall and were given a case to read and develop a plan for a company that was in trouble.
It really was NOT that difficult if you had any real world experience. Since we were in the early - mid 1970âs economic meltdown, a LOT of the hopeful graduates had just gone straight from undergrad to grad school while I had 5 or 6 years of actually having worked.
I had the pleasure of taking the exam with a student (unnamed) who had the highest GPA in the history (at the time) in the graduate school. In other words â a guy with street cred as far as smart goes (theoretically).
He was sitting for the exam for the THIRD TIME.
Classes â no problem.
Real world business sense where the rubber meets the road â not a clue.
I have no idea if he made it that time or not since I got the degree, walked across the stage and moved back to WI with my wife and 2 kids (at the time).
Iâm sure that there are graduates who are not qualified - people getting in because of who they know and such. For many, though, the bar for even getting in is so high, that yes, they should be smart enough to get As.
The grade inflation problem is not limited to Harvard. The lack if meaning to the credential of a degree is widespread.
The lack of any ability to know what a graduate of a university actually was taught is prevalent with the graduates of many colleges. Even when there are course requirements in the traditional departments, there may be courses which do not reflect the content which used to be expected to be included in being educated.
There are lots of assumptions employers made when hiring degreed applicants which can no longer be made. This means the hiring process may take longer and reject applicants who would have been hired in the past with far less scrutiny.
And none of the process changes would be more or less necessary for legacy students or other students who had received some form of admissions preference.
This past yearâs college grads are paying a price for bad hiring practices at many major corporations and lots and lots of bad management. They cannot get the jobs they would have been hired for in previous years.
McDonalds and other employers who required fewer qualifications are not willing to hire employees who will leave when they can find a job with a higher salary, more prestige and easier work.
Those services which advertise on TV promising to provide employers with qualified job candidates have been automatically rejecting over-qualified candidates for years. The did not require todayâs AI to do that.
Those Art History and âStudiesâ grads canât find a job driving a cab because Uber put the cab companies in many areas out of business, and you need to be able to afford your own car to drive for Uber.
My granddaughter will be graduating in June, probably with Honors from a highly ranked liberal arts college, and I strongly doubt that she will get a good job. The Chairman of LL Bean is on the Board of Trustees so maybe she will be able to get a retail job.
Your response to kids with good grades canât get a job at McDâs was âgrade inflationâ (implying many of them arenât really that bright). Now, you are saying they arenât getting hired because they are overqualified.
Regardless, the reason employers can be so picky is because there are so few jobs and so many applicants. They could not afford to be this picky if the unemployment rate was lower.
Two facts which may seem contradictory can be true, Most employers have multiple reasons for their actions protecting their company.
The reasons employers are picky is the can be, and need not be as desperate as they were during the pandemic. They are already automating every function they can and can afford to pay for. The California Fast Food minimum wage created a laboratory for techniques to reduce the need for human labor. And California has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
And the likelihood of a reduction without a change in state policy is unlikely, even if the population remains mobile.
The fundamental question you need to answer is why should any employer not hire the best employees the can afford to hire.
