My point I was trying to make was to make people more employable. But If workers are poor, they once again end up unemployed, so then what?
To make all employed we would need jobs for that, otherwise, at some point, the government would be back in the game. As you say a possible military draft. Government projects would be a good alternative and save us tax dollars over high paid construction workers. But I'm sure people would be screaming socialism, but what do they think the military and government jobs are. Both paid for by Uncle Sam, you and me. Anything designated to the public is social, but ever since ww1 it's become a h**ed word, when it was never the real problem... it was being ruled by a form of dictatorship.
I'm all for everyone being productive.
The inner cities are raising criminals, that's where we need to go first. prisons are full of young people that can be rehabilitated, with learning they have value and contributing to the whole increase your own self-worth.
This proposal you think is insurmountable is not, compared to the loss of criminals and the years of detention. Many times their entire lives, as they are in more than they are out. And now to make matters worse we have allowed for-profit prisons. That makes as much sense as for-profit healthcare.
People get outraged over public education to the higher levels, they are not far-sighted enough to see the benefits for the country in the long run. Making us more productive, people being more self-supportive, not going to crime and most of all raising children who see their parents as a good example of being independent.
A good example of this is the Meiji period, the leaders inaugurated a new Western-based education system for all young people, sent thousands of students to the United States and Europe, and hired more than 3,000 Westerners to teach modern science, mathematics, technology, and foreign languages and massively brought up the entire country economically.
It is cheaper for us to educate to the higher levels than to incarcerate for a lifetime.
We're playing a game here but we're not the ones ever winning. The game is tilted.
My point I was trying to make was to make people m... (