MS> PS> MS>    When GM is moving production to Mexico, it isn't because 
MS> PS> workers
MS> PS> the
MS> PS> MS>are better educated than the ones left idled when GM shuts th
MS> PS> factory 
MS> PS> here.
MS> PS>  
MS> PS>         Matt, I have to agree with you here.  No only are they
MS> PS> attempting to give jobs away to who probably don't read or write
MS> PS> they attempt to avoid taxes as well.  Look at Oregon for example
MS> PS> Why
MS> PS> are children having to go to the streets for funds for public 
MS> PS> schools?
MS> PS> When these folks say that they are willing to invest in educatio
MS> PS> then
MS> PS> I will believe that they are serious.
MS>  
MS>     I'm cynical about Big Business's "committment" to improved K-12 
MS> for reasons far beyond whether some company will "invest" a few thou
MS> dollars in computers for some elementary school.  I just see no comm
MS> being shown to hire educated workers when these companies move manuf
MS> very-low-literacy nations, and I think teachers are being played for
MS> they believe the Fortune 500 really cares about education reform.
 
I am at a loss to support the side of business on this issue.  I think 
you are right on about your supposition of this issue.  They move 
companies out of the country for profit, not to help the American 
economy.  They certainly are no more committed to American Education 
than the Japanese - Honda plants in America.
 
Keep your stick on the Ice,
Paul
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