Lawmakers punish companies who hire overseas workers while the U.S. education system churns out unqualified workers at home

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: offshoring, public schools, education system

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It's a political sham, of course, and it would only hurt the competitiveness of U.S. companies. The real problem here isn't that companies are trying to save a buck by moving jobs overseas, the real problem is that U.S. workers simply aren't competitive these days thanks to a failing national education system that churns out dopey students who can't do math except when it comes to figuring out how high their salary should be. They think they should be paid top dollar, but they perform at the bottom of the rung.

Just ask any employer: it's hard to find intelligent workers in the U.S. these days. Our education system is broken, and the schools in India, for example, are apparently far more effective at teaching job skills to their students. Subjects that U.S. students learn in college, students in other countries have mastered in high school. The fact is, we have an education problem in this country, not an offshoring problem.

Want to solve our job skills problem? You can't do it by punishing companies who shift jobs overseas. You have to make U.S. workers more competitive, and that starts in the schools. What we need is serious education reform. It's time we faced up to the fact that you can't run U.S. schools on pennies. You have to make a real investment in education if you want your country to be anything more than a patchwork of trailer parks and fast food restaurants. Today, our public schools are "idiot factories," and the employers know it. I once encountered a cashier at Office Depot who couldn't calculate a 10% discount... with a calculator!