Criticism of U.S. Workers

Before we go into another round of Japan-bashing because of comments by Sakurauchi on American labor, we should examine how much truth is in his statements, especially regarding workers literacy rates. It is time for America to accept the facts, and to rededicate ourselves; the words of Theodore Roosevelt in 1899 come to mind:

“I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease, but for the life of strenuous endeavor. . . . If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease, and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by and will win for themselves the domination of the world.”

BOB KERBER

Oceanside