Where Have All The Skilled Workers Gone?

[rjholling]

Republican solution to education: Let them all be home schooled so they can be taught that global warming is a lie and the world was created 6000 years ago.

[jakeway85]

I'm an honors graduate in electrical engineering who performed complex teamed assignments. I cannot find a job in Michigan. Fellow citizens, we were sold out for cheap labor regardless of education and skill level.

If I could legally live in atrocious conditions like my competitors over the pond, and have my employers shed their large tax burden per capita, I would probably have a job.

[paneerdodi]

If USA is facing such a huge Skilled Labor Shortage then Why dont they introduce a Skilled Worker Immigration program for USA based on point system. I mean Australia, Canada, UK, Denmark all of them are successfully running this program then why don't USA. They should attract Skilled workers with this program and retain them with offering immigration. This is the solution for solving Skilled Labor shortage.

[JoeNieroski]

As with many chicken little prognostications, this issue is a double edged sword. More than one significant factor is left out of this diatribe. This is a rather biased assumption meant for the management/employer perspective.

[Charlotte333]

We have become dependent on a large centralized federal government instead of keeping it local where agility and rapid adaptation are possible. Before any of this is the need to move the private Federal Reserve under the US Treasury, transform the fractional reserve credit system into a real currency (non-fractional reserve) and then have the US Treasury spend the REAL US DOLLAR currency into existence, perhaps on schools, bridges, etc.

[wsee]

these guys should NOT have jobs... cnn newsreaders, msnbc newsreaders abc newsreaders cbs newsreaders they should NOT have lives watch SEPTEMBER CLUES the guys with the BIGGEST paying jobs FUCK US ALL OF THE TIME.... SEPTEMBER CLUES F U C K the GREAT ILLUSION

[zigyzigy13]

Most of the Americans are dumb. Maybe many of you Americans have just noticed but the world have known for many many years, atleast 20 years ago, that the Amricans have many Americans have a bird brain. Just go to Walmart or something, and see how the people talk and how they act. It's a fact that it cannot be denied.

[londerosa]

He has a point. The most astonishing thing about Internet reader comments is always the appalling spelling and grammar. Many unknowingly write passionate appeals that are completely unintelligible to anyone but themselves. From the type of errors made, one can surmise that the writers never read, but gets all of their political information orally, no doubt from television. The same people ranting and pointing fingers about others being dumbed down often can't even compose a sentence. Scary.

[vairocana23]

londerosa, I agree with you one hundred percent. It is certainly a rarity to read commentary that is grammatically correct and sensible in YouTube postings.

[EarthaKit2]

How did we get to the subject of the Arab-Israeli war, anyway?

As to the 13%- I can't help thinking that few, very few Americans have time to pay attention to this SILLY poll.

Americans are too busy making a living!

[EarthaKit2]

Jimfowler: Of course, you're entitled to your opinion. But killings by Israelis, are those like the killings of girls by ISLAMICS in Palestine and the rest of the Mideast?

[vtcpdx]

This is BULL SHIT! Fist, "routine jobs" are not becoming automated, they are being moved into other countries at tax payer expense. Second, a lack of jobs leads to a disincentive for American youth to do good in school and pay exhorbatant tuitions. Kids are not stupid, they know what corporate America is up to and the ass wipe who made this video is blaming corporate greed and traitorous legislation on the victims. You fucking moron!

[Cossack007]

Americans are the sharpest people when it comes to comprehending many concepts. Look at Paris Hilton, she makes sex an art form that nobody else in the world can duplicate.

[misterskuts]

Not to worry. There are plenty of jobs in Corrections and Law Enforcement where a functioning brain is not a requirement.

[EarthaKit2]

And I really want to DEMOTE the value of the written word by saying, that depending on writing lazes the memory faculty. Everytime we have to go to an encyclopedia for data, the ability to remember goes downt the drain.

BTW, written data and facts are subject to the vagaries of change, according to the writer and the underwriter.

[EarthaKit2]

I say, more valuable is the ability to Send and receive Thoughts. Images communicate exactly , via colors and emotions. This is beyond writing, because it's true, one picture is worth a thosand words. This ability is being developed by humans again.

More valuable that language, both written and spoken.

[Jimfowler44]

New age bullshit. When I see the picture of a dead Palestinian child, killed by an IDF soldier, I'm sad and angry as hell, when Ehud Olmert sees it he sees a "terrorist" The difference needs to be explained with Words.

[EarthaKit2]

It's been deliv

berately brought about by "the powers that be" to return us to former peasant status. Servants don't need to read, only follow orders.

As to the skilled labor, it's is still here - LAID off and HOMELESS.

More ashamed should we be to have allowed that. To have allowed production and jobs to be sent overseas. No matter whether all good jobs fr. the U.S. are sent there, there will never be enough jobs for the overpopulated Asian countries.

[EarthaKit2]

in the 1st place, writing was given to humanioty, by those who ruled us with a merciless hand. MERCILESS! In the 2nd place, the means and roots of words were decided upon by our Overlords.

The hidden language we're unconsiously bombarded with to influence us, BY OUR OVERLORDS, is SYMBOLISM: Logos, signs and ads.

[klabotr]

Having to read a video just doesn't work. Use a voice to say what you want people to know. You've got this first rate electronic wonder. Use it. Don't use text we have to read.

[lem1951]

Sending millions of jobs overseas doomed America. The skills lost will never come back... Once we evolved a national skill level that was decimated by the government and it's money managers as they invested in outsourced factories... State and Federal government own 75% of the stock... It's big Brother government that killed us...

[scotter420wigb]

Its to much work to want to learn...people used to yearn for education, now they throw it away as useless, were have we gone as a society when u can have access to most history and all know facts and everything under the sun on the internet, and people dont care to learn. Education is an attitude and it starts at home.

[vtcpdx]

This is BULL SHIT! Fist, "routine jobs" are not becoming automated, they are being moved into other countries at tax payer expense. Second, a lack of jobs leads to a disincentive for American youth to do good in school and pay exhorbatant tuitions. Kids are not stupid, they know what corporate America is up to and the ass wipe who made this video is blaming corporate greed and traitorous legislation on the victims. You fucking moron!

[GregoryFFegel]

When I was in the 7th grade in public school, my teacher banned me from the public library because I was reading what she called 'adult books' -- Defoe, Dickens, and Pearl S. Buck. Piss on US education -- it was never any good. I'm glad to hear that the USA is flunking out in the classroom of the world. It's payback time, and I like it!