What to do About America's Low-Skill Workforce

Townhall.com ^ | October 15, 2013 | Michael Barone

[Kaslin]

BTTT

Excellent and so true

[Kaslin]

You think that’s not on the rats mind already?

[G Larry]

There are MANY solutions when the objective is NOT the destruction of America.

[Buckeye McFrog]

In the meantime, the United States can do something about improving skill sets by changing its immigration laws to increase high-skill immigration.

Feh! Twenty-nine paragraphs as a set-up for THAT??

[Kaslin]

<<<<< The planned parenthood “solution” isn’t the only solution. We could stop paying the stupid to have children, for instance. >>>>>

By having them abort their children and if necessary in the last trimester, is that it?

Like I said crawl back under your rock you crawled out from.

[Kaslin]

Excellent point and many who went to college are nothing but educated idiots. Just take a look at the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[Kaslin]

I agree

[pallis]

“You think that’s not on the rats mind already?”

Of course, it’s not something I would ever have imagined.

[zeestephen]

Re: “This directly leads to the reticence of American students to study engineering and science.”

Exactly correct!

I live, literally, in the heart of Microsoft country.

If you are a software engineering graduate with average skills, you will reach your peak pay grade within 10 years, and you will be replaced by an Indian H-1B before age 40.

If you have math skills, it makes more sense to major in business, accounting, or finance.

[Farnsworth]

My job has a considerable amount of “educated” people.....they are dumb as a sack of hammers and couldn’t figure out to sharpen a pencil unless a non degreed person was their to help them.

[Guttlekraw]

The massive immigration of foreign technical workers has many benefits but it does also result in the wide-spread unemployment of American citizens in those important industries. This directly leads to the reticence of American students to study engineering and science. Which was the main complaint in the article. Conclusion: the article is self-defeating. It proposes a course of action ( more and more importation of foreign technical workers ) which is a primary cause more and more American engineers and scientists wind up on welfare or driving taxicabs. And THAT is why more and more American students avoid taking technical courses The recommended cure is a prescription to make the disease worse.

It makes sense when you realize that the author's interests lie with his paymasters, not with America.

[9YearLurker]

Close the public schools.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I liked America better when our image of a college professor was Professor Irwin Corey.

[righttackle44]

What to do about them? One of them is president of the United States.

[CitizenUSA]

Hunger is an excellent motivator. There are many reasons for a low-skill workforce, the least of which is the lack of potential. There are some workers who simply don’t have the mental or physical skills to move beyond dependency, but I daresay that’s a very small minority. Many more have the human potential to achieve much, but why bother when it’s easier to rest in the loving embrace of Big Brother? If you’re going to be fed and housed and healed no matter what you do, it’s kind of foolish actually to put the effort into doing those things for yourself.

Bottom line: Government wealth redistribution builds dependency, and dependency destroys human potential.

[Kaslin]

One of them is president of the United States.

It's to late to teach him, he has already proven that.

[Kaslin]

Not everyone can afford private school or s qualified to home teach. I for example would have never been able to.

Get rid of the teachers unions

[Will88]

On literacy, just 12 percent of U.S. adults score at the top two levels, significantly lower than the 22 percent in largely monoethnic and culturally cohesive Japan and Finland.

Homogeneity is their strength.

[MrB]

Rush stated it again today - the biggest problem we have in this country are people who are not working and are still eating.

That cannot continue in any way at any time in history.

[Will88]

Obama has no skills.

I disagree. Obama's most dominant traits are those of a conman, and it does take some skill to be conman.