Reply #56: Nice to see that you know all about my background and ideas!

[zoidberg]

1. Not every one is mentally equipped for white collar work. That's a fact. Why not? I know people love to call Americans stupid, but I think that is a product of neglect in our educational system than the inherent ability of Americans.

2. But we can have people in other countries do factory work. We can't have them building our homes and fixing our cars.

Why is it that anybody in America, in 2003, is unskilled? We need to figure out why it is that we spend thousands of dollars to educate kids and then they end up unable to be more than unthinking cogs in a machine. We need to train anybody so that they will come up with the next advance that will create the new jobs. Untrained, unskilled workers in factories have never created jobs. As bad as the current job market is, the vast majority of college graduates are still able to find good jobs. The challenge for this country is to figure out how to get everybody the training and knowledge to create and take advantage of the next big thing.