Reply #74: I agree with you about the drastic changes in the job market

[Hippo_Tron]

I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Primary Colors but there's a scene where Jack Stanton (fictionalized version of Bill Clinton) tells a group of blue collar workers that he can't bring their jobs back and that the country is going to have to "go back to school".

After taking an economics course I realized just how true that is. To get a good job in this economy you need a degree. The problem is that people aren't willing to invest the money that we need to send as many people that we can to college. American consumers save a huge amount of money by buying our goods from China but we aren't willing to have a fraction of those savings be taxed so that we can invest in education and we can have a workforce that has the skills necessary for this economy.

Not only that we're not even willing to invest in primary and secondary education to prepare people for college. Even the freepers who value the sacred free market should be able to understand that if we raise teacher pay we will attract better teachers. Unfortunately we don't, so we're reduced to asking is our children learning?