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To: SwinneySwitch
We have this big, booming economy," he said, "and we don't have enough workers.

Sure we do. Fix the problems in K-12 schools so they actually turn out literate, educated Americans who can read and do 6th grade arithmetic, and we'd have plenty of workers. Right now a lot of employers specify a college degree just to assure themselves that they will be getting someone who can at least read on a 10th grade level. We're sending kids to college who should actually be working instead.

13 posted on 09/14/2007 9:37:36 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: cinives
"Fix the problems in K-12 schools so they actually turn out literate, educated Americans who can read and do 6th grade arithmetic, and we'd have plenty of workers. Right now a lot of employers specify a college degree just to assure themselves that they will be getting someone who can at least read on a 10th grade level.

I agree with that, and would add that we might also fix our present welfare system that allows able-bodied people to not take jobs they consider "beneath them."

Problem is, teachers unions and welfare pigs are powerful voting blocs. Illegals are soon to become another one.

42 posted on 09/14/2007 10:13:23 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: cinives

Look a little deeper into what he is saying here and understand his statement is coming from the President and the President’s Cabinet.

Connect the dots:

1. We don’t have enough workers.

2. Aging population.

3. Social Security/Medicare to go bankrupt without raising taxes OR INCREASING THE WAGE BASE.

Number 2 above is linked to the following two facts:

1. 45 million abortions since Roe vs. Wade.

2. 25 million more missing Americans that would have been born to some of those that were aborted.

And then connect all the above with the following:

1. 20 million (not 12) illegals in America and tens of millions more to come if borders are not secure and a President is not elected to reverse the tide of illegal entry.

Dow anyone see a vacuum here? I do.

Is this God’s wrath for killing the unborn? You bet it is.


46 posted on 09/14/2007 10:25:38 AM PDT by Hostage (Fred Thompson will be President.)
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