Adult Education English As a First Language: It Really Is a Shame Amricans Have No One Else to Blame

Shame, shame

It really is a shame that Americans have nobody to blame but themselves for the outsourcing of their jobs. Here we have one of the best education infrastructures on the planet, but Americans do not take advantage of the challenges that this infrastructure offers. They choose other fields such as law or business, but not engineering or science. Meanwhile, foreign students come here and utilize our education resources in engineeging and science, but they go back home to their countries because they have better opportunitites at home than here. Well, we have opportunities here--FOR THEM! We should be stapling H1B visas on their degrees so these foreign students can work here. But instead, we have to put up with the day-to-day ritual of receiving hundreds of thousands of resumes from unqualified Americans for a job that one Indian can do better than 10,000 American workers combined. Heck, I receive resumes on my desk daily, and it amazes me how each time I read a resume, I find myself filing it through my paper shredder. In fact, I had to replace my paper shredder five times in the last twelve months because of unqualified resumes from unqualified applicants who are from unqualified America.

Outsourcing exists because of this simple fact: Labor costs are cheaper in foreign countries, and the talent in those foreign countries far exceeds the talent here in the U.S. There have been a few postings where CEOs have stated that Americans choose not to compete with foreigners, and that is so true. The opportunities for new business and IT talent are growing faster in other foreign countries than they are in America, and it's because American workers choose not to be competitive. American workers know that their skills simply do not compare with the skills from foreigners. They always want to do things the easy way instead of challenging themselves to make themselves better and more productive, and they want a weekly paycheck for their "work." Come on.

We should be investing more money in education and training, but all that money we invest in education and training burns away in a thick cloud of smoke. Competition is the name of the game, and we cannot bank on the confidence that we have the best and highly educated workforce here in America. If there is a highly educated workforce here in this country, tell me where I can find it...no response? Yeah, thought so. That's because this highly educated workforce does not exist in America--it exists in China, India, Japan, Germany, and anywhere else outside of America. I cannot help but feel sorry for American workers, because it is their fault and on their own conscience that they are not more educated and more competitive than what us CEOs and Corporate America wants them to be.

Bruce Thomas
CEO (like you didn't know that already)
CADMUS Communcations

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