Thought - Or really just a few random brain cells firing ... I'm feeling salty today..
Let Apple bring money kept overseas into the US completely tax free, as long as it's used to fund schools that would teach the very manufacturing skills Tim has repeatedly said Americans lack. (He isn't wrong) Hell, open a few of their own if need be.
This would enable long term solutions for jobs, and manufacturing capacity, that should be considered essential to the ongoing security (financial and military) of this country.
Because we don't just need more skilled laborers for building iPhones. We also need them to build the future. New transportation, new energy, and on and on. Long term, we can't be solely dependent on other countries for the very technologies that our country runs on.
We don't need Apple, or anyone to bring jobs back, we need schools to bring basic education back. And, yes, Apple, and other companies that rightfully point out the lack of workers, could help themselves by helping those schools.
It's fine to point out that our country has gutted votech labor education over the past 50 years or so. But, I wish people that do, repeatedly, who could do things to help change that, would. Stop being Chicken Little and do something productive to help fix the problem you keep pointing at. Great, you already told me the kitchen is on fire. Grab the fire extinguisher RIGHT NEXT TO YOU and put the damn fire out!
This isn't a conservative or liberal issue. It isn't a blue collar or white collar issue. It's an anyone not using their brains as a seat cushion issue.
