Saturday, April 29, 2006

Hunter-gatherer?

From Bush's mouth: we shouldn't worry about competition from China and India. And because -- we can out-compete those countries if we're wise about what we do here at home. And one of the wisest things we can do is to make sure our children have got the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century.

It's funny how much cow manure can come out of W's mouth. I happen to know how outsourcing is done. The managers are asked to identify the high tech jobs that can NOT be outsourced and explain WHY such jobs can not be outsourced. Everything else is outsourced to India. No one cares if the people who are fired have 'the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st' or even the 22nd century. If the Indians can do it for less money then highly-educated Americans lose their jobs and that's that.

Or... maybe, in Bush's brilliant mind, the jobs of the 21st century are: waiter, cabby driver and hunter-gatherer.

1 Comments:

Blogger Cthulhu said...

Someone else suggested that other good jobs for the 21st century should include: prison guard, Walmart greeter, and security guard. All jobs that, obviously, require a lot of high-level education. And the Bush 'rekinizes' this.

10:51 AM  

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