[oceanview]

Its not "scoffing". But try and understand that my friend with a PhD in engineering doesn't want his kid to be a plumber, nothing against plumbers, but try and understand. That's why tech professionals are piling their college aged kids into law schools.

[Jack Wilson]

I read somewhere, but I can't find the article, a good argument that what our kids need to be trained in for the future is entrepreneurism (phew!)...

[XBob]

the high wage US trade and engineering jobs are exactly why they are pushing illegal immegration, to drop the wage rates here in the US, and legal (special visa immigration) to drop the wage rates on technical jobs that are not readily exportable.

The whole plan is to bring the US wage level down to those of the 3rd world.