But, But There Are Plenty O History Majors (Or Whatever) Like Our Dear Reader!

Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com: "Another critical advantage for Apple was that China provided engineers at a scale the United States could not match. Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.

In China, it took 15 days.

Companies like Apple “say the challenge in setting up U.S. plants is finding a technical work force,” said Martin Schmidt, associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In particular, companies say they need engineers with more than high school, but not necessarily a bachelor’s degree. Americans at that skill level are hard to find, executives contend. “They’re good jobs, but the country doesn’t have enough to feed the demand,” Mr. Schmidt said."

And again:

“We shouldn’t be criticized for using Chinese workers,” a current Apple executive said. “The U.S. has stopped producing people with the skills we need.”

RTWT. At least you could argue that a history major who actually knew history was worth something somewhere. But the neo-Marxist bullcr*p that's taught in the U.S. now is worse than useless. It makes you quite literally retarded.

Oh, and it's not cool to be smart in the U.S. If you don't believe me I suggest you follow my teenagers around for a few minutes.

For the latest related perspective from ESR on how we got into this nightmare check this out and then follow the links to "Gramscian Damage" and "Suicidalism". If they don't wake you up you're irredeemable. (Please note that ESR is an atheist. I also recommend reading ESR's comments since they're a paragon of the way things should be compared to the sludge, hatred and ignorance that infect most sites.)

Oh, I know it's more important to be part of the tribe's religion. Yes, Liberal Atheism is a religion no matter how much you doth protest. (The Dominionist's are coming to end the world!)

And the Watermelon religion -- which the Times dare not mention as one of the other huge factors driving Apple overseas.

And the U.S. tax code's effect on corporations somehow went down the memory hole as a factor too. Nary a peep from the NYeT of course.

Sorry to interrupt Dancing with the Stars. I know that's an important distraction that helps you drown out your conscience.

If you still have one.