Don’t blame corporations for the lack of jobs.

Don't blame corporations for the lack of jobs.

Walter Isaacson, in his biography of Apple CEO, Steve Jobs wrote that Jobs told President Obama "You're headed for a one-term presidency" and urged the president to be more business-friendly. Jobs told Obama how easy it was to build a factory in China, in contrast to the difficulties caused by regulations and extra costs in the United States.

Jobs stressed the need for more trained engineers and suggested that any foreign students who earned an engineering degree in the United States should be given a visa to stay in the country."

The book says that  "Jobs went on to urge that a way be found to train more American engineers. Apple had 700,000 factory workers employed in China, he said, and that was because it needed 30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers. 'You can't find that many in America to hire,' he said. These factory engineers did not have to be PhDs or geniuses; they simply needed to have basic engineering skills for manufacturing. Tech schools, community colleges, or trade schools could train them.

"'If you could educate these engineers," he said, "we could move more manufacturing plants here.'"

Don't blame the Apples or the Wal-Marts for our economic fiasco. Blame our educational system, environmental groups, tax laws and government interference.