This September, when the presidential campaign will be in full swing, my wife and I will be sending our oldest son away to college. During the next four years, we will be investing much of our lifetime savings to support his education.
We will do this with the full knowledge that there are no assurances that he will be able to locate a job after graduation.
We do so knowing that if and when he finds a job, he will need to adjust his skill set and subsequent career path a dozen times or more.
We understand that he will be competing with Chinese, Russian, Mexican and Indian kids, many of whom are smarter, harder-working and willing to accept less money.
We do not believe that our son will experience a world where the United States, with less than 5 percent of the globe’s population, continues to control more than 40 percent of its wealth.
His career may necessarily take him to Beijing, Delhi or Mexico City.
We fully expect that each and every day, he will have to make his skills essential to somebody, somewhere in order to survive and, eventually, prosper.
We do not believe that John Kerry, George Bush or even Santa Claus himself is in a position to create a high-paying American job for our son or anybody else.
