Reply #92: As a teacher, I remember the mantra...."US workers not trained well"

[madfloridian]

I swallowed it for a while. Then I realized it was the beginning of the movement to dumb down schools. My research is so in depth on this I would have to redo it and reorganize.

To put it simply, it was a big smelling pile of BS. It you say the workers are not good, then it is easier to outsource and make the people believe it is them. It is probably one of the most evil
concepts visited on our country.

Read these articles at the New Dems, read between the lines. The "new" labor...retrain, re-educate....and all the rest of the crap.

DLC Reinventing Unions.
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=107&subid=297&contentid=945

Idea of the Week, A New Economy Labor Movement
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=107&subid=297&contentid=3519

Then read some other articles from 2000 and 2001 on this page. You can read it and think American workers were bad and ignorant, or you can read it and think they were being screwed.
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_sub.cfm?kaid=107&subid=297