... get rid of occupational licensure, says the Wall Street Journal.
"Travel and tourist guides, funeral attendants, home-entertainment installers, florists, makeup artists, even interpreters for the deaf are all regulated by various states. Want to work as an alarm installer? In 35 states, you will need to earn the government's permission. Are you skilled in handling animals? You will need more than that skill in the 20 states that require a license for animal training."
That ain't gonna happen. If you look at the legislative history of most licenses, you will find that they were passed at the insistence of the people being licensed either because there were so many charlatans that the public no longer trusted the industry or (possibly and) the industry wanted to limit competition by erecting barriers to entry into the field.
Hmm, I know somebody that does interpreting for the deaf.
Of the many things she does, she translates for the deaf at trials.
Still think they don't need to be licensed?
On 7/28/2011 4:14 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote: ...
Goes farther back by far than legislative...the origination dates to Middle Ages in Europe for the model in Western civilization (and probably farther than that in China altho I'm not familiar w/ their practices in the area).
Only relatively recently has penchant been applied to such a wide array of activities legislatively and there is some truth in the protectionism argument in some of them but many are really public health and safety origins and quite a number stem from sufficient public harm over the years or a particular significant incident or two that made headlines by its magnitude.
Why? This could just as easily be taken care of the same way you get okayed as an expert witness. I had testified many times before I got any kind of certification. They asked about my training and experience, etc.
My dad was an "expert witness" and many courts will simply eject a witness even with credentials when they start reaching impossible conclusions. I've seen it happen in a case where a forensic expert tried to reconstruct a fire's origin based on blurry 3 by 5 photos that he had not even personally taken. He hadn't visited the fire scene, either. Zoot! Out he went. The outcome might have been different if it has been a jury trial, I'll admit, but smart lawyers make sure the witnesses they hire are credentialed out the wazoo and well-spoken, too, before they take the stand. For engineers, the credentials part usually (not always) means having a PE license.
As for licensed translators being more competent then their unlicensed brethren all I can say is there's no shortage of appellate briefs alleging translation errors during criminal trials and in my limited experience, those allegations often prove true. That's because translation is subject to all sorts of errors.
A brief review of POTUS errors in translation (ostensibly the best translators money can buy) will reveal "I am a donut!" and "my wife is frigid," the two Presidential translation errors most cited in the press. Extra credit if you can tell me what they were really trying to say.
-- Bobby G.
Hair brading? Flower arranging? Interior decorating? Manicurists or Pedicurists? Pet washing? Breast augmentation?
Bah!
The first was JFK trying to convince Germans that he was a native of Berlin ("Ich bein ein Berliner").
Don't know about the second. That's not surprising, though. Inasmuch as the phrase has been uttered, at most, once in the last century, it's rare enough to not have been recorded.
NewsCorp took over DowJones (including the WSJ) in late 2007. The WSJ is now the nation's largest circulation newspaper with over 2 million subscribers (USA Today has about 1.2 million and the NY Times about 950,000).
As to the WSJ being a shill for Murdoch, their reporting doesn't seem to bear out that claim:
To create more jobs, create a demand for more stuff. Get money into the hands of people who will spend it.
Nobody is going to hire more workers unless they can sell more goods and services.
Which one do you actually hear? "I'd love to hire more people, but I pay too much in taxes and fees." "I'd love to hire more people, but the orders just aren't coming in to justify it."
Cindy Hamilton
"Cindy Hamilton replied to what "HeyBub" wrote
With HeyBub you have to ask whether he heard it on the news, in the street or in his head. (-:
-- Bobby G.
"Any prosecutor can convict a guilty man but it takes a great one to convict an innocent one."
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:08:34 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
None of the pols are doing anything about jobs. They ignore this.
--Vic
Neither. But several congress-critters report they hear "I'd hire more people, but I don't know what the government will require of me next year."
That's what their controllers PAY them to say. It's called astro-turfing. Corporate shills paid to express their handlers opinions as if they were really their own.
-- Bobby G.
Oh.
I didn't know that.
Thanks for the heads-up.
The wall between reporting and editing at WSJ remains in better shape than in most large metropolitan newspapers, where you don't know where the hell what you're reading comes from. If you read just the editorial pages of the WSJ you are back in the 18th century, if not earlier. But other parts of the paper still have good reporting, and most wonderful of all, good writing and editing!
He was doing nothing of the sort, as you well know, but maybe you're just descending to your usual level of...
It's obvious that Kennedy was sending a message of solidarity with the Berliners. The amusing part is that German speakers have been arguing ever since about whether he was saying " =CF am a a jelly doughnut" (ein Berliner), or =CF am a Berliner."" Strictly speaking, it should have been the latter, but the message of solidarity got through anyway.
HB
Translation is more art than science...
All languages have dialects -- not all translators know all the possible dialects of every language they can translate...
Even sign language has several regional dialects within the US...
~~ Evan
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