Anyway, the other issue with the ultrasound requirement is that it adds another step to a time-sensitive procedure. If you look at the politics behind the requirement, it is clearly just one of many obstacles that would be placed in front of a woman seeking an abortion, with the intent of making the process so costly, uncomfortable, and time-consuming that some women will fail to go through with it.

With fewer of those kinds of jobs around anyway, the complaint about not having enough people trained in them is quite the “well duh!” moment: if students have an eye to the job market when they register, they’re going to be discouraged from fields that have a bad job market.

Assuming it’s serious, they mean things like carpentry and electrical work, or welding and other things used by heavy industry. Trade school; tech school. Of course there’s a reason that not many Americans have those skills anymore — the people who had those skills all lost their jobs 40 years ago.

BTW, I have a post on my blog that sorta responds to this post:
http://e-vigilance.blogspot.com/2012/01/american-patents-chinese-slavery.html

Seriously though, considering he somehow posted the second that I did, I’m leaning towards “no”.

When you demonize your opponent and claim a better alternative, you should produce the alternative. Otherwise you end up inadvertently making the case against your position in direct proportion to the degree you demonize the opposition.

The problem with Drum is that he has also previously marginalized figures on “the left,” such as Nader, Kucinich, Gravel. There’s nothing to pull out from the magician’s hat.