Feb. 19, 2004 - 20:46 MST

THE WONDERING JEW

Shorty

A day of last minute stuff for Heather, me helping on the side as much as possible. She bedded down early so as to get some rest before the shuttle comes. Its snowing out now but looks as if the pavement is warm enough to make it just messy on her trip to the airport. After thinking about it she has cut her time in Florida to one week. The original plan was for her and our son to keep on running around after her brother has to go home. Then our son is unable to go and Heather planned on running around on her own for a bit, but yesterday she decided that she didn't want to do that and called the airline and changed her ticket. For which I am glad.

I wonder what content newspapers out of our state have about the football scandal of recruiting parties that Colorado University is having here ? Here in Denver there seems to be a media frenzy -- little room for other news. A little news of other import squeezed in and the want ads and ads in the main section. Even the editorial pages are partly taken up with the scandal.

In his column, George Will seems to be peddling the claim that things are cheaper overseas and claiming training for new jobs here will fill the bill. Yeah right !

Steve Lohr of The New York Times had a little to say on the subject in our paper of February 15th. Two paragraphs from his column, "Still, many industry executives, analysts and academics -- Not distraught American workers alone -- say the nature of the economic challenge appears to be fundamentally different this time."

"For decades, American foreign policy has been to urge developing nations and Communist countries to join the the global economy in earnest. Now they have, and vast numbers of skilled workers have joined the world labor force, seemingly overnight."

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It seems that the brains of our country feel that our population can be retrained to gain better jobs. I think that no-one has addressed the fact that there are many persons who cannot go past a certain point in technical expertise and training and there fore will have to earn a living where no jobs are available any more.

Couldn't a certain portion of the profits from off shoring be taxed out of the corporations to provide the training for those who can profit from it and jobs for the people where there is a giant lack of jobs they can do ? I dunno, they keep harping, carping and warping the the thoughts of us common people. Seems to me the big boys of the movers and shakers failed to think and provide for those who will be in want, just chasing their almighty dollar.

I thought it would be a brief entry tonight, but I guess my big mouth kept it from being a Shorty . . . . . . . . . . .

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