I've looked at the so-called trade schools in the US and most in my area are just scams. It was easy for Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs to tout his site but I went to it and some of the links don't work and even some phone numbers are wrong when you try to call the trade schools.

Now whether or not learning a trade is worth your time is entirely up to you but most trades I evaluated tend to be sexist and have an aging male population majority. I wanted to go into engineering then found that the majority of those jobs are also being farmed out and 75% of graduates aren't working in the major they graduated in. Now that's a number no one wants to hear and when students are lied to and told they have to go to college in order to make any real money no one tells them they can't get scholarships or that financial aid in the form of grants has become so scarce.

How can the foreign workers be referred to as "foreign-born Americans" while comparing them to "native-born Americans"? The jaw dropping data is bad enough and makes me wonder about the Boycott Disney movement. The former employees of Hewlett Packard, Sony, facebook, and Pixar have been blowing the whistle on unethical hiring practices and forcing employees to train their replacements for lousy severance packages. The employees have been blacklisted regardless of their compliance in their area of expertise. This is unnerving and has to be illegal. After reading about their humiliating terminations the replacements from India are obviously making less than the experts with advanced degrees were making.

Other countries have apologized in no way at all for cracking down on illegal immigration and on those who hire illegal immigrants. In the U.S. every criminal has the excuse of claiming they want to be an American without actually earning it, and let's not forget it idiotic hoops they jump through. Look at the Dominican Republic charging ahead and telling Haitians to leave before they're loaded onto buses. They took away any notion that Haitian women giving birth in the Dominican Republic would allow them to stay as these criminals will do in the U.S.. In Italy more items are made by illegal Chinese immigrants. Australia is deporting more and after they purposely sink their ships to be rescued, these criminals are loaded onto other ships to be sent back. Can anyone blame countries for doing this? I can't. Do these corrupt countries campaigning for their people to work in foreign countries so they can have a string of remittances flooding in to prop up their economies think it will last forever? Americans are fed up and have every right to be. We're paying $15 per tomato already and it's not worth it to subsidize poorly run corporations. Why do we keep being lied to about capitalism when we know that's not how this country is run?

I bet that our presidential race is going to become very ugly indeed when people have been lied to. I watched Democrats claim to represent the poor and middle class while proudly claiming they're going to give illegal immigrants amnesty - which people applauded! Sure, we'll have "free college for all" and not a word was mentioned as to how high taxes would go. The GOP ranted about how women can't make their own medical decisions and they ignored the wage difference between the genders. It makes me very uneasy when a Christian fundamentalist is going to make sick statements against women without anything but deafening applause to meet them. There are days when I wonder if our country has been crazy for a while and some people are slowly just now realizing this, myself included. Very little has been said about Social Security going bankrupt and Huckabee, a Baptist preacher is unfit for office - period.

This is just another terrible mess brought about by greed, apathy, and incompetent management. Unfortunately there are no easy solutions and when you look at the candidates none of them are the right fit and that's the worst part of all.