channel hit show dirty jobs. he also has a foundation, mike wow works. that helps young people train for well-paying jobs in skilled labor. mike, it is a real pleasure having you here. nice to be here. [ cheers and applause ] you re talking about something, mike, that s near and dear to my heart, that is that a college degree is not always the ticket to a good career, and yet we re told that, you know, if you go to college, you re going to be able to get a good job and make a lot of money. look, it is a difficult thing to talk about because the minute you take a position that s contrary to the prevailing narrative, you re seen as anti-college. well, look, not all knowledge comes from college, all right? there s been a thing [ applause ] it is so easy, i think, to confuse the cause of the thing with the symptom of a thing. and a lot of things that we talk about today, a lot of the
jobs. mike also has a foundation called mike row works that helps young people train for well-paying jobs in skilled labor. mike, it is real publish having you here. nice to be here. [ applause ] you re talking about something, mike that is near and deer dear to my heart. that is that a college degree is not always the ticket to a good career. and, yet, we are told that, you know, if you go to college, you re going to be able to get a good job and make a lot of money. look, it s a difficult thing to talk about because the minute you take a position that s cob temporary in the prevailing narrative. you are see seen as anti-college. not all knowledge comes from college, all right? there is a. [ applause ] it s so easy too, i think, to confuse, you know, the cause of a thing with the symptom of a thing. and a lot of things that we talk about today, a lot of the headlines from the skills gap to unemployment, to currency devaluation to
jobs. mike also has a foundation called mike row works that helps young people train for well-paying jobs in skilled labor. mike, it is real publish having you here. nice to be here. [ applause ] you re talking about something, mike that is near and deer dear to my heart. that is that a college degree is not always the ticket to a good career. and, yet, we are told that, you know, if you go to college, you re going to be able to get a good job and make a lot of money. look, it s a difficult thing to talk about because the minute you take a position that s cob temporary in the prevailing narrative. you are see seen as anti-college. not all knowledge comes from college, all right? there is a. [ applause ] it s so easy too, i think, to confuse, you know, the cause of a thing with the symptom of a thing. and a lot of things that we talk about today, a lot of the headlines from the skills gap to unemployment, to currency devaluation to
principled about you that you re telling the story about growing up in michigan and why those trees are important to you. and that s the part that s missing. and so, yeah, you can roll out of the convention and, you know, he s got the organization and the machine in place, but where s the love? well, and where s the passion? and i think mitt romney doesn t get it in this respect. you don t have to call people snobs that encourage right. americans to go to college. you don t have to say john kennedy made you want to throw up talking about separation of church and state. just give us the top of speech that chris christie can give, that paul ryan can give, that jeb bush can give. go out there and say, you know what? we ve got to balance our budget and make our schools better, and we ve got to make our health care system better. but what the democrats don t understand is as a nation, we spend more money per student than any other nation in the world as a nation, we spend mo
turning things around. and that s a campaign he s running. i thought, okay, this is a big acceptance speech after important victories, fire wall held in michigan and another fire wall holds. he s got to make a case for why only he can be the nominee and ultimately can beat president obama. and we got a bit more of the same. and i think i finally realized, he wants to play within himself. i think the argument he made yesterday which is i ve made mistakes, i m not going to turn things to turn the base to excite the base. it was both a message to donors, look, i get it, i m going to retrench a little bit. but i think he also recognizes he desperately wants to run as a fiscal conservative in the fall but as a more cultural moderate. that s what he knows how to do. he doesn t make as many mistakes. he doesn t want to take santorum on over religion or whether he should go to college. he wants to run as a fiscal conservative, take the case to obama and is desperately worried if he tries to ta