Posted on 07/15/2011 10:23:00 AM PDT by Nachum
Former Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, has lashed out at America's younger workforce, saying they don't match up to the 'baby boom' generation. Mr Greenspan said the U.S. is in the process of seeing the baby boomers, which he called 'the most productive, highly skilled, educated part of our labour force' retire. 'They are being replaced by groups of young workers who have regrettably scored rather poorly in international educational match-ups over the last two decades,' he added in the interview with Globalist. He went on to say how the average income of U.S. households
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Not like the public education system bears any responsibility for the decline of our educational system over the past 40-50 years...noooooooo.
And that is the whole point of dumbing down the school curriculum and having unions control the schools rather than actual achievement.
“They are being replaced by groups of young workers who have regrettably scored rather poorly in international educational match-ups”
Who’s fault are those poor scores? Wouldn’t be the poor teachers and parents? hmmm mr greenspan you dweeb
After decades of the NEA encouraging basket weaving and social engineering, in lieu of EDUCATION!!
“You wouldn’t want to take anything challenging and risk a lower GPA!!!”
Yeah, too bad those skilled baby boom communists who became teachers dumbed them down.
Translation: Mom and Dad studied business, engineering, or medicine. Junior got a Phd. in Womyn's Studies.
* After decades of the NEA encouraging basket weaving and social engineering, in lieu of EDUCATION!! *
And in CA you now must teach them gay history.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/14/calif-gov-signs-landmark-law-to-teach-gay-history/
Now, that is really going to equip them to Win the Future!
Greenspan, keep your mouth shut. Haven’t you done enough damage. I hope your husband Andrea smacks you around for being such a big mouth.
‘We’re better off hiring skilled immigrants’
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Is that why we invite immigration from countries like Pock-istan, Somalia, Nigeria and other highly advanced societies?
A lot of the younger people that I work with have a bad work ethic. They spend too much time on their smart phones, face book, and other toys on company time. The employers should hire more older workers.
The hippie, doper, pervert, spoiled "baby boomer" generation is the CAUSE of the poor quality of education in the United States.
Cool, if just a minuscule number were terrorists, say, oh, maybe 19, we could have another 9/11. Just think of all the new construction jobs that would create! See, a major positive economic impact.
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FUAG ! Of course the boomer’s had the attitude of “living to work”, not taking any time off for vacation. Of course, Alan expects us younger folks to show blind loyalty but get none in return.
I am tired of being told by the elite that I must work much harder and longer for less money, have my life disrupted not even at a moments notice such as being told to move since my job has been relocated, cancel my vacation with short notice, etc.
The elite are not the solution to our problems, they are the cause of them so they can STFU !
Hearing anything from this stupid schmuck Greenspan gets me about as excited as hearing the “objective” view of things from Bill Clinton. They’re both committed to the big project of revisionism to make their own “tenures” look better by comparing them favorably to ‘the current group’ who occupy their positions. Greenspan fatuously allies himself with the baby-boom generation only because he thinks his imaginary “sterling reputation” as head of the Fed allows both to constitute themselves as “the good old days”, compared to the hapless and hopeless present of Obama and Bernanke. He sees no continuity or logic in how
past becomes present, and disowns any participation in it except to implicitly suggest that they took his job away from him out of some kind of generational spite.
Uh, who were these young workers’ parents?
The former Chairman is correct about the fall in skill level, but is woefully naive as to the actual dynamics involved. Unless we face the actual situation, our plight will only get worse.
William Flax
That's what the NEA and billions of education spending have done for us. Pretty scary, huh?
But as Greenspan should know, our immigration system is skewed at favoring "diversity" third worlders (especially those with anchor babies or other dubious family ties) over actual skilled immigrants, particularly those you can see too easily in the dark.
Can’t place all the blame on the schools.
I know middle and upper class parents who allow their kids to take the minimum requirements to graduate. Why? So they’ll have plenty of time for multiple sports leagues.
Forget advanced science and math courses. Skip AP, skip calc. Play ball.
So it’s no surprise that well-educated foreigners are equipped to do the jobs that American students won’t prepare themselves to do.
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