When we spend about $1T on education that has a massive drop-out rate and its graduates cannot write a sentence of coherent English, have no work discipline, and lack basic math, and for those who enter college the first two years are spent on remedial Math and English, why is anyone surprised that corps flocks overseas.
There are about 1 m jobs that go abegging because of a lack of mid-level to high-level tech skills. This is a structural issue thanks to the entrenched teacher-union interests. Unless and until we break this stranglehold by withholding funds to states that don’t allow for school choice, the problem will remain unsolved.
Domestically, we have 11 m illegals including those who overstay their visas and a liberal H1B program that is a spur to chain migration. Unless Palin or anyone plans to aggressively tackle these thorny issues, all the corporate bashing has only limited if not marginal validity.
China, is a currency manipulator. Romney is onto something here. But this again highlights a key issue of why US exports are unable to reach their full potential- read jobs.
Bush signed NAFTA. Perot was right. The “whooshing” sounds of jobs leaving for South America can now be heard loud and clear.
Just an aside - companies might fill at least some of these if they didn't regard anyone over 45-50 as senile.
That, and start jailing executing CEOs who fed this "globalist" crock to us. They should be shot, drowned, hung, drawn and quartered, disemboweled, burned at the stake and then really hurt.
Start with Jack Welch and all of his proteges; then go on to the entire McKinsey consultancy.
And don't forget the staff of most U.S. business schools.
Cheers!
*** Bush signed NAFTA ***
False. Clinton did