OK, Explain This To Me Like I’m A Complete Idiot Part 9:

[quaker bill]

25. The answer is obvious

a lack of education / training was never "the problem". It was always just a line used to convince us that poor economic results are the worker's fault (not the business owner). As they say "If you were just a little smarter we would hire you, really....., we promise...." - - "Too bad you just aren't good enough"

Funny that a "failed" education system has produced more graduates and well trained workers than have ever existed in US history. But it is obvious, since the business leaders keep telling us "Too bad you just aren't good enough", we have to reform education to make us "better".

This romantic notion of our becoming an intellectual superpower is tragic. It can never work. It is really just this simple, the very brightest (regardless of how you measure it) top 10 percent of the populations of China and India outnumber us (more people than the entire US population). Either of these countries on their own could produce many times more world leading scientists and engineers than we could hope for with even if we created the very best free education system on the planet, there just aren't enough of us with the capacity to perform at that level.

Even if you believe everyone here could be brought to this level, it is still not enough. BTW - if you happend to believe this fairy tale about our potential, please consider that some of the population will be voting for Michele Bachman and would have voted for Sarah Palin had she run, then get back to me.