In response to:

Liberal Nostalgiacs Don't Understand Jobs of the Future

Lee287 Wrote: Apr 23, 2012 10:55 AM

America's K-12 government monopoly school system is modeled after the Prussian mandatory schooling of 1819, intended to produce obedient middle managers and military officers. Uncle Sam's Plantation also requires obedience and dependence. My hope for restoring Freedom and restoring Excellence is SCHOOL CHOICE FOR EVERY FAMILY. As Thomas Jefferson warned us, a poorly educated society will not remain free: he prescribed good education of the populace as the remedy.

Join the Debate!

All comments and users are subject to Townhall's new comments policy.

Read Full Story

Liberal Nostalgiacs Don't Understand Jobs of the Future

I don't know how many times I've seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him through to a comfortable retirement.

As it happens, I grew up in Detroit and for a time lived next door to factory workers. And I know something that has eluded the liberal nostalgiacs. Which is that people hated those jobs.

The assembly-line work was boring and repetitive. That's because management imbibed...

Related Tags: Jobs Unions Green Jobs Manufacturing Obama Economy Auto Industry