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.
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
I am just happy that the Missing Link and his wife (Ms. Missing Link) never had children. I can only imagine what they would have looked like.
The “Boomers” are largely the proximate cause of our current national mess whether social, political, religious, economic or cultural.
To put this into a better perspective: The Baby-Boomers failed to teach the children of today.
People today are less likely to have discipline, skills, educations, or attitudes necessary for adult life and that if the fault of their parents and grandparents, the Baby-Boomers.
I am sick and tired of hearing this kind of #%$^ from the baby boomer generation. This generation rode a wave of personal debt into the house of cards credit economy of the eighties.
Being in debt $500,000 with a mcmansion and whatever else you can finance is not the definition of success. Our generation will be expected to work until we are 80 to pay for your social security...all the while knowing that we will never get a dime out of the system.
We sat patiently by while you learned how to work a vcr. We sat and patiently waited for years while you (as management) slowly figured out that the internet was not a passing fad and that email could actually be used for work.
We watched your generation lose every war since WWII. We saw you burn the bra, take the pill and embrace affirmative action. We saw you systematically outsource every single form of production the American worker ever knew in order to finance your lifestyles.
We heard you complain as you got a little older and no one wanted to keep you in middle management. Never mind that you never took the initiative and started your own company or provided a service that was worth a damn. You just wanted to keep your year over year raise while performing whatever task it was that you learned to do 40 years ago (which can now be done on a computer at 1/10 of the cost by a five year old).
Keep whining baby boomers....if the younger generation is so stupid and lazy....why can’t you get a job? Oh...that’s right...ageism...