Where Have All The Jobs Gone?

Ya know what the worst mistake our country's government has made over the last half century was? The Iraqi war? The housing bubble? The deregulation of the banking industry? None of the above. And it wasn't even allowing the oil industry to get away with shortcuts and unsafe programs. The biggest problem was in mistakenly thinking it would be OK to allow our industrial base to move offshore. That losing so much industry to other countries wouldn't come back to bite us. I suppose the arguement was and is that it couldn't be stopped, so why fight it. So why not spin the story that we would become the information leaders of the world. Problem is, we didn't make the changes necessary to make that happen and to make it profitable for everyone. Ya know, pretty much everyone could make it in the industrial world, but not so in the information world. That's because the information world doesn't need as many people as the industrial world does. Even with new technological advances. And everyone would need advanced education. Just what did the government forget to do? It forgot to educate the public. As industries left America, the unemployed got next to nothing in the way of retooling and reeducation. I suppose the idea of the "free market" approach was uppermost in government's minds. Let those folks get off their duffs and get an education. Well for the most part, that didn't happen. Those folks found jobs asking if you want fries with that. The smart thing would have been to begin providing a free college or tradeschool education for everyone, young and old alike. As it is, we're falling behind countries that did think ahead. It seems our politicians aren't as smart as theirs. No news there.