[Robert357]

Rather than focusing on race, maybe the article should focus on the sending of family-wage manufacturing jobs overseas and replacing them with service industry jobs?

This country desperately needs to revamp its NEA-dominated education system and produce smart kids, who get into engineering. Recent projections show that in 15 years something like 90% of the worlds engineers will reside in China and India. The implications of all that design talent not residing in the US is a nightmare for those of us who want to retire comfortably.

The post WWII GI bill and the number of citizen soldiers who studied and became engineers and their children who became engineers really helped create the products and technology that helped this county develop its high economic level.

[khnyny]

The post WWII GI bill and the number of citizen soldiers who studied and became engineers and their children who became engineers really helped create the products and technology that helped this county develop its high economic level.

IIRC, isn't there a similar "GI Bill" up for the veterans of the current Afghanistan/Iraq conflict?