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[ARCADIA]

No Problem...Electrical Engineer one day, and Bio reasearcher the next; lets just ignore the 12 years of retraining in between. Let me know when they start passing out checks, it looks like we are going to spend the rest of our lives in school.

[forester]

Coming out of the forum, Rick Begley, 68, of Kernersville liked what the president said and didn't think he needed to lay out a new textile policy Friday. In the long term, the state's economy is moving toward high-tech jobs, he said.

Mr. Begley's indifference to the plight of us younger workers almost insures that his social security payments will end shortly. Frankly, I am appalled at this attitude among some of the current retirees. Too many seem content to watch the country go down the drain on the nightly news.

In regards to so-called "worker re-training". When the timber industry here in northern California was put out of business by the Clinton administration, Clinton promised worker re-training. Very few got it because for the most part, people moved away. The worker re-training money ended up being spent on public infra-structure. As one bureacrat stated, "We can't attract new businesses to the rural areas without adequate sewer systems."

[sarcasm]

"All we've got to do is bridge from the textile sector to the biotechnology sector with smart education practices,"

Bush's bridge to the 21st century?