To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (129615 ) 2/2/2017 5:06:04 PM From: bart13 Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217589 Wow and not at all surprising how poor your own reading skills are, and prove my point quite well about our extremely poor educational system. You clearly missed "large number of applicants have difficulty passing basic requirements like... simply demonstrating the requisite work ethic ". It'll be fascinating if you pretend that a work ethic is not part of an good educational system, since it was alive & well in the system as recently as the 1960s. And it's even more than normally disappointing to see that you at least imply that addiction problems have nothing to do with our education system , and even make fun of it. How droll and schtoopid. /sarc You also missed: "Apparently his colleagues responded with laughter again, because he then said “Drug abuse and the hardship involved in unemployment aren’t really laughing matters. " You even quite humorously missed: "A contact of his who owned 60 McDonald’s restaurants said “passing drug tests, passing literacy tests , and work ethic are the primary problems he has in hiring people .” The most basic measure and goal of a successful educational is not graduating illiterates - FAIL! And yet another one, which also says such wonderful things about the welfare state: "Several firms told us of difficulty finding adequate workers, because they preferred to collect unemployment benefits. " Note that I bolded the more important parts to aid your overall comprehension and poor reading ability, and you're welcome. Elbot, who can't read and doesn't know how much of the world outside his EstablishmentBot bubble thinks so poorly about the US edookashunill system is, with "readers" and illiterates like himself - 0 bart - 1