With the dumbing down of America, we will continue to see our jobs outsourced. With 30-50% of our students not graduating with their classmates, what exactly will they be qualified to do in a country that no longer have manufacturing jobs?
What will we do with a country full of big, fat, ignorant young people? They aren't in any condition to perform manual labor or serve in the military. No matter where they are in the U.S., those same children of people you and I know are the burdens of today and tomorrow. They will be sucking up my taxes and yours from now on.
There was a data processing center in a nearby town that was struggling to find qualified people (high school or equivalent) to fill their vacancies. They were forced to close the doors and let the Phillipine branch fill the needs.
By the way, private companies use our prisons and do in fact compete with the work force that remains.
Education is a low priority in this country, take a look at Education budgets vs Correctional budgets.
