[CurlyDave]

What he really means is that he wants to throw more money into the inner city schools to teach the uninterested skills that are beyond their grasp.

Of course there is a problem, but it is not one that money can cure.

[Kirkwood]

How much taxpayer money gets allocated and spent on inner city youth programs, etc. is the liberal’s sole indicator of success, not the actual efficacy of the program itself. You see this constantly with schools and nonprofits sending out lists of all the grant money and donations they recieved (and wasted). At least when you spend tax dollars on a new bridge, you can see something tangible even if it did go over budget and was fnished a year late.

[a fool in paradise]

At the computer firm I work for, they won’t advance far if they don’t also take Chinese or Hindu language lessons. Off shore and management teams don’t speak strictly speak English (some but not fluent) and communications are conducted sometimes in foreign tongues.

White engineers with 20 years of skills need not apply.

[GnuThere]

Yes, whites and Asians need not apply.
And poor rural areas, too bad, you’re just not brown enough.