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To: TopQuark; liberallarry
displaced workers in outdated industries do not become permanently unemployed: they find other jobs.

We simply send the half of America having IQ's under 100, to MIT to become tech workers, and problem solved?

34 posted on 11/20/2004 12:05:42 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
Why don't we send them to MIT to become economists? At minimum, they could then find a job writing for the New York Times, or the New Republic like this guy.
36 posted on 11/20/2004 12:08:19 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Age of Reason
Oh, I see, you too have socialist leanings:

We simply send the half of America having IQ's under 100, to MIT to become tech workers, and problem solved?

Obviously, they would not be admitted to the M.I.T. That, of course, is obvious. WHat perhaps is not obvious to you is that workers with low IQs do not produce enough to justify the high standard of living.

Like a typical socialist, you leave the issue of who produces wealth aside: people simply MUST live well.

I was not arguing for all displaced to go to school: it's a free country, and they don't have to if they don't want to. Buy they --- and you --- should then stop b----ng that their standard of living has declined.

I don't know your Age, but I certainly have not seen Reason in your post.

39 posted on 11/20/2004 12:26:58 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: Age of Reason
What was I thinking? The New Republic and the Times? Heck this guy is published by CommonDreams.org!
For all you newbies out there, Common Dreams provides "News & Views for the Progressive Community."
45 posted on 11/20/2004 1:04:41 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Age of Reason
We simply send the half of America having IQ's under 100, to MIT to become tech workers, and problem solved?

Thanks for making the point that I've tried to make countless times to no avail. They patently ignore it; while in the same breath demeaning American citizens as "stupid and lazy."

I've worked as an exec in manufacturing; I know the type of person who holds these jobs. Many have limitations, either socially or intellectually.

We end up picking up the tab for the unemployed; or the difference in the tab from someone who had a decent paying job, who is now working for $6.00/hr at McDonald's. Not to mention the fact that some of them end up as CNA's taking care of Grandma at the home...with the increase in abuse and neglect that has already been noticeable here in a state with a large elderly population.

But, again, you are tilting at windmills; these people don't have any interest in hearing you so long as their stocks continue to increase in value. They have been "educated stupid."

111 posted on 11/21/2004 11:05:30 PM PST by garandgal
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