[PEN-L:29442] RE: Re: RE: underemployment?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:29441] Re: RE: underemployment?

I wrote: >> We have to watch this. One fuel for Al Quaida, I believe, was the existence of a bunch of underemployed college grads in Egypt and Saudi

Arabia...<<

Gene asks:>Are we watching this for Ashcroft?  What's that 800 number again? <

no, for the left's sake. It's bad for the left for there to be a bunch of disaffected educated people who can't get decent jobs who join the obscurantist right. Maybe we can draw them into our camp, but in order to do so, we have to pay attention to them.

>What do you mean by "watching this"?  When Reagan was governor of California he was worried about this problem, and education took a hit.

Do you propose the same?  Don't educate and we'll be safe? <

no, we need to increase the demand for educated people.

For poor countries, however, education resources should be going into basic education instead of elite education. Come to think of, it we need many more resources in basic education here in the US of A. These California kids can't read. Hopefully that doesn't mean fewer funds for higher education -- i.e., my salary -- but the US educational situation is becoming like that of an underdeveloped country.

>What about the severe shortage of educated labor I've read about for the
past ten years?  Employers couldn't fill jobs with qualified people, or
so they (always) claim. <

the article was about England, while you're referring to the US.

Jim