“Our Graduates Must Compete in the World” from the Albuquerque Journal
America’s choice (is) high skills or low wages. Either America will do whatever is necessary to create high-performance work organizations and the high skill levels needed to sustain them, or the country will continue to slide toward low skills and the low pay that goes with them. The choice is ours to make.” (Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce) Businesses are no longer geographically bound to produce products in their home countries. Toyota can build cars as easily in Evansville, Ind., as it can in Japan. Motorola can assemble pagers as easily in Singapore as it does in Fort Lauderdale. Look at the label of any “American product.” General Motors makes cars in Canada and Korea as well as the United States. IBM makes some of its computers in Mexico as well as the Far East. Pitney Bowes puts its name on the outside of some photocopy machines while Ricoh puts its mechanisms inside.
