I believe that a new curriculum needs to be designed and implemented that explains in detail to elementary, middle and high school students the meaning of globalization. It means that if they are unable to learn to compute quadratic equations, the inventions will be all outsourced to foreign countries and they would have to be happy with gouging American consumers with false claims of service costs.

outsourcing to India and China workers, either overseas or in the US via H1-B visas, has picked up at the expense of age-35-plus

Yes, even the people who made prudent career choices and who have worked hard their entire lives are at risk from India and China here. This is what I was saying in another thread. India and China aren’t outperforming us, they are just at a competitive advantage with us with the cost of labor. On the contrary, they aren’t as skilled as U.S. workers are, they just work cheap. The skilled services are seeing the same bloodshed that the manufacturing sector faced. The end result of this will be a homogenized world, everywhere the rate of a days labor will be the same. Is this what we want? It doesn’t matter what we want. Nobody listens to us anymore, they don’t need to. We are voiceless, so whatever Nancy wants I guess.

What we’re seeing in our high-tech field is not that the total number of jobs is shrinking dramatically, but that outsourcing to India and China workers, either overseas or in the US via H1-B visas, has picked up at the expense of age-35-plus (20-30 years from retirement, raising families, not at death’s door) citizens. This, combined with no increase in the total number of jobs, means more unemployment for citizens who in some cases spent 6 or more years at university to qualify to work in their field. Seems to me, given that more and more citizens and permanent residents are out of work, that it’s time to provide incentives to business to hire people who are already here, and disincentives to bring in more overseas workers. I’m not saying that the march toward globalization needs to stop, just that it needs to slow down and give the economy and labor force a chance to catch up with the new reality.

As another poster points out, this is no longer FDR’s America. It’s a more complicated one, because we can’t control what’s happening outside our borders.

Now it’s “Cash for Caulkers”? Can we say … intellectual laziness?

Turns out, it really is not just our alarmist imaginations, the Obama cronies really are clueless.

The lack of leadership skills of BO combined with the fact his cabinet has very little private sector experience do not bode well for the unenjoyment lines.

It just seems that educating our children is a priceless endeavor. Along with prolonged joblessness comes the end of hope. Hope doesn’t feed a family, it won’t educate our children, it won’t keep our elderly alive.

Now the the jobless parents can spend some quality time with their school-less prodigy.

It is not that far away when they will have no choice but to do just that. Next week we will hit 12.1 Trillion deficit and this is only manageable because the US Treasury is issuing short term debt at 0 per.cent int.rest. The estimates are that it will hit 10 before to long. How in the hell will they pay a 1.2 Trillion interest bill. That is not mentioning that Medicare is now drawing on its funds at about 500 billion a year.

Unfortunately the party is over. They might be able to delay it an other year maybe two but we all better get ready for high unemployment, gas and food shortages and an ever growing uneducated population.