Your words "create jobs" triggered my anger response.

Jobs do not get "created." Jobs are a symptom.

The President does not wave his magic wand and "create" 70,000 engineering jobs.

A CEO does not just put his signature on a piece of paper and create 1,000 new programming jobs.

There are tens of thousands of jobs that pay an excellent wage, require no college degree, and go unfilled year after year after year.

The problem is not that there are "no jobs", or that "immigrants took my job" or any other silly hand-waving media-sound-bite-friendly bullshit. Don't fall for that.

For 10 years Mike Rowe demonstrated this to us, and for the last six years he has continued to champion this cause and message with Mike Rowe Works.

These are real careers with union protections, pensions, good pay, good benefits, and - for a large part - the ability to set your own schedule and workload.

The jobs are there. The entitled little shits just need to DO them.

Plumber. Electrician. Steelworker. Linemen. Stagehand. Tailor. Etc, etc, etc.

Two weeks ago my fire-performer friend just got hired as a union electrician.

Almost two years ago a roller derby girl I know became a construction worker, and is happier than she's ever been in her life, pouring concrete on a high-rise building project.

I just gave a plumber $18k to replumb my entire house. He never even finished high school.

My friend gets $80k/yr guaranteed minimum to operate the crane on a construction site. A skill that you only learn on the job. Not from Yale.

And on, and on, and on, and on.

Psh. "Create jobs". Gimme a damn break. People just need to get to work.