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You may disagree with the reasoning, and conclusions, but that does not make it rubbish or non-economic drivel anymore than your lame response.Originally Posted by Reiver
"Free trade, globalisation, and international competition is a race to the bottom in terms of the value of labor. We can see what has been the result of globalisation. Finite natural resources (oil, metals, land) have increased in price, while wages (in the Western countries at least) have gone down." (Anders Hoveland)
"In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new research has found."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/us...ling.html?_r=1
When I noticed the High School had an Auto Shop, just being curious, I asked the school councilor if my kid could take that when the class he wanted was not available, I was told it was a special program for troubled kids. Pinning the black woman down, reality is that the kid who needs to learn some technical trade, or take Shop in our High School, the kid has to rob a liquor store first.
So wages are going down, or people not making them, which goes to statistics, from schools no longer teaching people who are not going to college for a trade. It is as if educators frown on technical schools, and yet that is where some of the higher paying jobs are for those not going to college; in fact it is not uncommon to find a technician making more than some college graduates.
Even if a lot of manufacturing is being done elsewhere, people here still have to maintain the stuff.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/14836...acturing-jobs/
Not everyone is capable of being a computer programmer..., but educators will put a kid in computer lab who cannot even do math like grandpa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29XL99qM6s
"Chicago's School Mathematics Project, Everyday Mathematics lessons accommodate a wide range of academic abilities and learning styles."
http://www.everydaymathsuccess.com/p...nstruction.pdf
So if they have a problem, slow or whatever, with using a method that allows them to continue to do calculations, as the numbers are right there ready to use, let's be inefficient and "accommodate a wide range of academic abilities and learning styles" with a lattice method..., and stick them in computer lab too instead of a Shop class.
"High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become 'knowledge workers.' The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. This has not come to pass."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/ma...pagewanted=all
Some are out of work because our education system is whacked, putting kids in computer lab who have no business being in one. Instead of accommodating a wide range of academic abilities, let's have drop outs and graduates without skills. Then we have wages going down, statistically, simply because kids are not getting hands on for "a wide range of academic abilities."
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