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Please use the link (above) to report any shortages that you notice in your area, regardless of the categories listed. This includes foods, fuels, candles, ammunition, tools, parts - anything you went looking for and couldn't find.

With "Outsourcing," most of the American ability to produce the items we need in our daily lives has also been outsourced to other nations. What we used to produce from raw material to finished product is most often now little more than assembly of component parts.

Most Americans now get their income by providing "services" to other Americans who are providing services to others. We don't "make" anything anymore. This is not a recipe for sustaining life. What happens when the producers decide to quit producing or, more likely, quit providing their goods to the U.S.?

We all know Americans have (or have had) the ability to "gear up" in times of crisis and produce what we need to survive - but what if there isn't time? What if there are too few of us left who can (or will) gear up to provide for the rest of America? What happens then? In my eyes, this is just another path leading to tyranny and government domination.

I know it's not easy getting by out there, but we should all endeavor to BUY AMERICAN made products wherever and whenever possible - but don't be mislead into thinking "American Assembled" is the same thing as American Made.

The Shortage in Skills: [Monday, May. 20, 1957] THE U.S. is faced with a new kind of labor shortage that threatens to check its industrial growth. It is not a shortage of workers but of skills. In Washington the U.S. Labor Department disclosed that unfilled demands for skilled workers have jumped 17% over last year, against 9% for other workers. The Cleveland employment office reported it is getting 1,000 applications each month for skilled metal workers and is unable to fill them.

Shortage of Skills [Friday, Mar. 10, 1961]: It Grows Despite Unemployment ~ FOR U.S. industry, the rise in unemployment to new highs last week underlined a startling paradox: all around the nation, even in such critical jobless areas as Detroit, jobs are going begging for lack of skilled workers to fill them. Industry is hard put to find enough trained craftsmen, but the problem is getting worse. For every 100 skilled workers that the nation had in 1955, it will need 122 in 1965 and 145 in 1975. Yet the nation's spotty training programs are not even turning out enough new craftsmen to replace those who retire. Automation and such new industries as electronics have vastly increased the demand.

Dumbing down - Wikipedia Dumbing down is viewed either as a pejorative term for a perceived over-simplification of, amongst other things, education, news and television, or as a statement of truth about real cultural trends in education and culture.

the deliberate dumbing down of america is a chronological history of the past 100+ years of education reform. Each chapter takes a period of history and recounts the significant events, including important geopolitical and societal contextual information. Citations from government plans, policy documents, and key writings by leading reformers record the rise of the modern education reform movement. Americans of all ages will welcome this riveting expose of what really happened to what was once the finest education system in the world.

The Dumbing Down of America ~ List of reasons why we are Dumber than before: This is a pretty funny list with a sinister serious side.

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