# For those who care: Why USA overall competitiveness is decreasing

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**Created:** [December 11, 2011, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-those-who-care-why-usa-overall-competitiveness-is-decreasing/261715 "2011-12-11T10:18:04Z")
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### Author: ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-those-who-care-why-usa-overall-competitiveness-is-decreasing/261715/7 "2011-12-11T13:15:07Z")

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> [@Getting Close](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-close/47175/23):
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> Second rate or not we need somebody doing them.
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> Too many thinkers and not enough doers gets the country sitting and thinking how shitty it is instead of doing something about it.
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> How are you going to outsource infrastructure and construction jobs again?
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> By the time a union guy graduates instead of going into debt for 4 years in a college for a major that is either saturated or hires for $50k a year at best, they will have money in the bank with similar pay instead of being in debt, with job security.

The problem w/ the thinkers vs. doers argument is that it will really come down to parenting and schooling of a child. Parents and teachers tell children that the jobs to get are the relaxed office type jobs and you gotta go to school, then college, do well, etc… BUT when it comes down to it, all that it really does is convince people they’re better than what they really are. You get the kids that think they deserve the world JUST because they went to school, and that after all that hard schooling everything should just come to them.  
Schools are prolly the worst culprits of shaping a child’s mind IMO.

Schools and parents are ruining this generation of children. They tell the kids that barely get by that they can still do anything. They tell kids they don’t wanna be garbage men or landscapers for the rest of their life, that they need college to get a good job as a doctor/lawyer/etc… They don’t tell their kids that doing those types of jobs are good enough and can still make a comfortable living. They also make it more appealing to the kids because kids think that working in an office is cake compared to say, working in a manufacturing plant. Sure you’re not doing the manual labor, but you still do a lot of thinking that some kids just can’t do.

/KK type rant

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