No child left behind - NOT!

Pretty funny story today on the net.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050630/b0630102.html

Toyota just announced plans to open a new auto plant in Ontario Canada, even though states in the USA offered larger subsidies.

Toyota’s reasons where clear. The American workforce is too hard to train. Completely illiterate in some areas. The higher subsidies offered by the US states would have been wasted on additional training.

Some quotes:

“He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use “pictorials” to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.”

“The level of the workforce in general is so high that the training program you need for people, even for people who have not worked in a Toyota plant before, is minimal compared to what you have to go through in the southeastern United States,”

“Several U.S. states were reportedly prepared to offer more than double that amount of subsidy. But Fedchun said much of that extra money would have been eaten away by higher training costs”