tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11015870.post111974054322434567..comments2023-11-03T08:29:56.308-07:00Comments on Economic Trends: Protecting U.S. JobsErnie Gosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960355803509595037noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11015870.post-1119758553883585252005-06-25T21:02:00.000-07:002005-06-25T21:02:00.000-07:00Seems to me that this has been a recurrent theme i...Seems to me that this has been a recurrent theme in American education going back to the decade of the sixties when The Russians had launched Sputnik and we were warned we were losing the space race due to the poor education American students were receiving in science and math. That proved to be not quite the case, but maybe over this period of time we still haven't really addressed the problem. I really don't know, but it seems to me that although our current public education system pursues a variety of goals, nuturing of talented students in science and math is not one of these. <BR/><BR/>Still, there seems to be two contradictory themes in this post. On the one hand, it seems to be acknowledged that IBM is moving jobs out of the U.S. due to lower labor costs. On the other hand, it seems to be argued that the source of job loss is an inadequate, technically qualified labor supply in the U.S. Higher U.S. labor costs would no doubt be related to the latter, but why should students enter science and engineering fields if their prospective wages are to be governed by workers willing to supply the same quality labor at a fraction of the U.S. cost? This seems to be the true predicament of some blue collar workers rather than their poor education. Thus, majoring in marketing may make perfect sense from the students' perspective, if these sorts of jobs are subject to less global competition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com