That is better and consistent. Thank you.
I am not happy with Tim Cook in all things either. But I also understand exactly what he said and the truth of what has happened to American workers and our manufacturing sector. It was done deliberately by the liberals in our government and labor unions. In most ways, you and I are on the same page.
But, central_va, the reason I have spent so much time with you is that before we can FIX something, we have to understand what we have to fix.
That is why Tim Cook said what he said. He spoke the truth and as hard as it is to hear, it is true. We cannot go on sweeping it under the rug.
As Lorraine and I have been saying our schools have completely de-emphasized the manual arts in favor of college track education which does no service to students who are NOT capable of or not interested in college level work. I saw it happening back in the mid-sixties when the high-school counselors were pressuring all their students to become teachers. The result was we got a glut of mediocre teachers.
Then liberals got elected and de-funded music, band and orchestra, art, shop classes, woodworking, electronics, metalworking, auto mechanics, heating and air-conditioning, home-economics, cooking classes, everything except college prep classes. . . and said everyone should go to college. It was strange but the only place you could find any of the manual arts classes was in continuation high schools. . . where you had to get kicked out of regular high school and/or drop out and try to get into the limited spaces at a continuation school to take those type of classes.
Yet many of these fields actually paid MORE than a bachelor of arts will pay.
The fact is ALL the other CEOs of tech companies use the same manufacturing contractors but WON'T tell us why. Tim Cook is honest about it. He is ALSO the only one who has tried to bring home some of those jobs with the iMacs and Mac Pro manufacture and assembly to Elk Grove, CA, and Austin, Texas, respectively. He has said he wants to bring home more. . . and he is outlining why he cannot do what he wants to do.
I have outlined some of the other reasons that stand in the way. . . and why the jobs were forced out. They are almost insurmountable.
I think that Tim Cook should keep his mouth shut on LGBT topics and just manage Apple. . . just as I think that some Hollywood types should keep their opinions to themselves and just sing and act. Every time they open their mouths outside their fields of talent they make fools of themselves, Cook included.
However, in this area, Cook is right.
Next time when you post on an Apple thread, spell the names of Apple products correctly and you won't be thought a troll. OK?
Utter bullcrap. Assembly work and line work takes no skill what so ever.
CEO's, like this Apple douche bag, tell these whoppers to make themselves feel better about business decision that are really counter America and do nothing but stretch a huge profit margin by a few pennies on the dollar. He is an American and he has a conscious and he knows Americans would pay a tiny little bit more for a made in the USA product.. there was a time when corporate America actually acted like American companies.
To make matters worse he tries to justify manufacturing in suicide net equipped factories in Asia BY INSULTING AMERICANS AS STUPID AND LAZY.. He is a real piece of work, almost comical. It is hilarious that anyone would defend him and call themselves ans American Patriot and conservative.
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