What if it Snows?

I'm lost? You're equating a drug screening clinic charging you for services to expecting someone to pay their bills? By that logic the fact that the grocery store is charging a markup on food is the same as them expecting you to pay their light bill....

 

If an entire business segment disappears I would expect that state and federal efforts would try to find retraining. sure. When I got my technical training (prior career) a lot of the guys there were middle aged men who'd gotten broken in labor jobs who were learning mechanical design so they could continue to feed their families. I've no issue with that.

 

no
Someone has hit this far out of the park.
I said, the people, should not have to pay for that guy/gal to go to college by waiving his college or any other person for that matter, cost to go to college.
I was simply saying I don’t see anybody paying me back for my or anyone else hardships.
Years back when the place I worked for closed its doors due to “economic downturn” I survived on $280/week unemployment with me, wife 3 kids and no money but that coming in, I didn’t see any government saying “What about the children!!”
And paying any of us $800 unemployment or waiving cost to get a good college educated job paying 100-200k/year.

It just made it where you had to rush around and take a job you may not have wanted to feed your family and not sit back and think the people should feed/house/buy clothes for your family.
But no one seems to understand what I’m pointing out, they still seem to think it has to do with taking a leak in a cup.

 

Ok. I'm apparently still lost.
In 5 sentences or less... Who is this group going to college? And how exactly is there a system for them to not owe for this education?

 

Now mind you. Money put into a national higher education system that doesn't cost students is actually a smart thing. Way smarter than the billions of corporate welfare dollars spent and offshore lost tax revenues...but this country has gotten faaaarrrr beyond rational conversations on these things.

 

Easy way.
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Could Wipe Out Debt for 15 Million Borrowers - NerdWallet

Biden's higher education plan aims to ease student loan debt

 

That truly does suck, We are in the same boat on this part.

Unfortunately we are a very small minority, it is amazing to me the percentage of people in our profession that can not or will not stay clean enough to get through the test.

Yep, got it. Understand.

I think I'm following the jump here: Student loan forgiveness for the folks that did the trade school or college thing? That's in the political field so will stop at that acknowledgement.

The gov't signed up for a bunch of retraining (including using the private for profit truck driving schools in this) since the 2008 recession. I think the whole system should be put up for review. And yes if a trucker gets fired/laid off they should be able to get some grant money to change professions if it is mutually beneficial to them and the gov't. Not sure what they could retrain for that will make more wages though.

Autonomous trucks on the road? those are a ways off. I hope we are all retired before they become a significant contributions for moving freight on the road ways. I can see them evolving on private property like mines and out in the oil patch. Until they ban all the cars that do not have peer to peer communication full implementation will be problematic.

Cali and the diesel ban? Yep going to happen. Most of the manufacturers have CNG fuel tractors available and in the market. Electrics are being developed by the established manufacturers. I just hope the other states realize this is not something they need to do. My perspective is that it should be scaled back to only affect the LA basin (area south of CA58/I40). Unfortunately regulations are required at the state level to fix the self inflicted stupidity of the layers of local politicos. And that blows ill for the entire state.

 

Ok. When it becomes a thing maybe I'll research it. Still not necessarily a crisis honestly. The financial holders of said debt will mark it as a loss. The government will cut them a break. They'll continue to pay crap in taxes. Probably cry for a bail out. Lol...

 

I think I'm a bit closer to understanding your point now.