ON THE CUTTING EDGE: How Did We Get From A Knowledge Economy To An Unskilled And Illiterate Economy?
Writing in Human Events, Mac Johnson offers a plan to meet America’s purported need for millions of uneducated and unskilled workers without having to import them from other countries – and dramatically shrinking the welfare state at the same time:
Americans once believed that education was the path to personal success and national economic advancement. But as any supporter of illegal immigration will tell you, the real bedrock of the American economy is actually the uneducated, unskilled “migrant worker.”
Without a steady supply of millions of foreign high school dropouts, New York City would collapse and America as a whole would wither and die -- as we have learned repeatedly in the illegal immigration debate, most recently from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Yet despite the critical national need for illiterate labor,
The good news is that
The key to economic advancement in this century is not “education” or “technology” or even the much over-hyped pretender “innovation”; it is getting our illiterates into the workforce muy pronto, before we are eclipsed in the economic arms race by emerging manual labor superpowers such as
Therefore, I modestly propose the following one-step plan to finally unlock the potential of
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