What part of this accurate statement do you disagree with? He is talking about the manufacturing worker-bees who need better technical skills and instead have a bad high school diploma and possibly even worthless college experience. What they lack is marketable SKILLS.
Look at this another way. I have three young children, what jobs do they need to be prepared for in the future? These must be jobs that robots and computers can't do, and that people elsewhere can't do, cheaper than they can.
Because that was the problem last decade. This decade, you can have the best technical skills in the world, but your job can be outsourced overseas and taken by someone making 20 percent of your income. So do all of us tech workers take 80 percent pay cuts and still pay mortgages and property taxes and car payments? And how do we re-train manufacturing workers to be tech workers when the very jobs they will be targeted towards are the jobs that are going overseas in droves?
Yeah, I imagine Dubya must be so clueless that he believes Mexican and Chinese peons have greater skills than the American Middle Class.
Ol' Juanterm better change his tune if he wants to maintain support of his conservative base.
He's not gonna achieve that by joining Charlie Rangel and the "Blame America First" crowd.