Sorry, I don't fully buy in to your argument. Yeah, the NEA and the other useful idiots in education have attempted to wreck the whole system but there's still a lot of quality young people who could be trained properly to be very useful for any organization. Too many folks in this country have bought into the media created fantasy about our young men and women, the vast majority of whom are looking to be productive workers, parents and community leaders. The bottom line is the usual culprit.....pure greed and it's been the case since NAFTA, GATT, etc. and the rest of these alleged free trade agreements.
We've seen numerous products offshored to factories paying a fraction of what Americans used to make but as these products re-enter our retail markets, have the prices decreased because of the steep decline of production?....hell no they haven't! In fact, many products being made by virtual slave labor cost more than ever, including clothes, food, household goods, etc. It's nothing more than a massive hollowing out of our middle class and entire economy. So enjoy it while it lasts amigo because this whole charade will not last a whole lot longer. Oh yeah, I've owned a small business for over 20 yrs. and have hired nothing but Americans and I'll be around a lot longer than a lot of these offshore experts.
Now, the people working in Mexico are being outsourced elsewhere because they are making a whoping .50cents and hour and someone else will do it for less...
I ask those who think this is good? WHO is going to BUY these products when eveyone's jobs are outsourced? The people who used to make these good in the USA made good wages and could afford new washing machines, refrigerators, cars, etc., but if they are unemployed and not buying and the people making these products are being paid slave wages, who will buy these goods...
No one worried about this as long as it was the "manufacturing" being shipped out; then someone decided -- hey with the internet we can outsource our high-paying computer jobs, won't have to pay benefits, retirement, insurance, FICA, etc... so now the higher paying jobs are going .. yet another group of people trying to decide if they want to be cops, teachers or...
Lest you all flame me; a few months ago there was a special program aired on CSpan with the top economists, Chamber of Commerce head, etc., and the bottom line was "WE DON'T have an economic model to base this on, and thanks to the internet this is growing so fast, the implications are, as yet, unclear, but the economic professor who wrote the current book being taught on econ, says he is very concerned about this ... I own my own business, so have no ax to burn, but if I was one of the many who worked in Silicon Valley and have been outsourced, I wouldn't be a happy camper... or if I worked for MayTag and made $15 and hour and found my job shipped to Mexico -- or ugh, China -- China HATES the USA -- yet we are sending all our technology and many jobs there --
So, don't laugh at Lou Dobbs... who, BTW is a Republican (a Conservative Republican). This President Bush didn't create this, it was conceived under 41 and implemented by Clinton (you know the Democrats who USED to be pro-business, pro-Union and then sold out!). Our Government used to have checks and balances, no more, now it's who has the most money and right now, it's not the Republican Party, but since Clinton, the Democratic Party has the deepest pockets.