[Berlin_Freeper]

"If I wanted America to fail"

[muawiyah]

GM management, as usual, destroyed GM.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

This comnmentary is by Michael Barone, not Michael Savage.

[central_va]

Right, the USA out source it's manufacturing base to the third world and then all of our above average kids will be I-POD app developers and live happily ever after. What a crock.

[SkyPilot]

Ten years ago on Free Republic, there were threads and discussion about how the liberal boot camp "McStudies" degrees had exploded in terms of enrollment at universities and colleges across the nation.

The only reasons the academic white towers offered this garbage is because it was easy for the lazy to matriculate, they received billions of dollars in tuition (most of it loans from students who could not afford them), and the curriculum was decidedly anti-Judeo-Christian and Western.

And here she is, a San Diego Mesa College graduate with a BS in "Black Studies."

What does the marketplace need with these graduates? Their only hope is a government grant job or an affirmative action hiring for a job they are totally unqualified for.

[RegulatorCountry]

Whew! Am I ever so glad we’ve grown beyond boring and repetitive jobs that promised a comfortable retirement. Nothing but excitement now. Whee.

[steve8714]

Barone, not Savage.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

One issue I have with the ‘high tech’ jobs of the future argument is that it fails to recognize that information technology has to have a purpose in order to have sustainable marketplace relevance - beyond entertainment. Facebook and all the social media are fine, and some form of them will likely thrive and grow, but they aren't going to create jobs for generations of people. They are in large measure targeted to what people do when they are not working.

IT-based productivity tools, on the other hand, are designed to help people to work more efficiently and productively at jobs that create something, or that provide a valuable service. In an America that doesn't promote the creation of new industry and small business, or at least the sustainability of existing industry and small business, there won't be an expanding market for IT-based productivity tools. Just my take.

[equaviator]

Back in the early ‘70’s (I think) the Detroit News or Free Press ran a week-long feature on boredom on the assembly lines. They interviewed workers and described in detail the down sides of having a job like that.

[Bon mots]

[raybbr]

Okay, I see it's Barone. That explains it. I don't see Savage as ever saying this.

Admin moderator: Author should be Michael Barone

[Mr. Jeeves]

The good news is that information technology provides the iPod/Facebook generation with minimum IQ's of 130 with the means to find work and create careers that build on their own personal talents and interests.

Average kids - not so much. Oh, they can throw up web sites and sell semi -useless information and/or physical products if they have a natural talent for self-promotion. But that isn't economic growth - it's rats fighting over crumbs.