Quote:
Originally Posted by Craig
Whenever things change there will be winners and losers. The US (both political parties) decided several decades ago that they needed to be part of the global economy if they didn't want to be left behind (the correct decision, btw). Apparently, some folks just woke up and discovered this fact.
The biggest failing of the US was to put insufficient emphasis on education during this transition. There will always be a generation that gets hosed by these changes, but education would help reduce the impact. You can't have a public education system churning out people who are only qualified to work in a sector that has disappeared. The US will do fine, they just have to get past some growing pains.
|
Yep, education has really failed.
The first thing they should tell the kids when they get to HS is they better study hard because a kid in China is and he wants your job. So they better work hard and be damn good at what they do.
What some of the doom and gloom people fail to realize is that China is losing manufacture jobs at a pretty good clip and its going to increase. They are losing them for the same reason they left this country, its a commodity and will go to the lowest bidder. China is getting to expensive so they are off to the next 3rd world hell hole. Having said that we still manufacture quite a bit in this country, we do the higher end stuff that others don't do so well.