The perfect storm is here!

I did not have any idea what a “perfect storm” was (actually I thought it was just a movie). Thanks to today class, I learnt something about it.

To understand what America’s perfect storm is about, we watched an interesting video. As the information was presented, I tried to create an image on my mind to get the main idea. What I imagined is an entire country being absorbed by a black hole… What a terrible situation!

Nowadays, American companies not only face new challenges to satisfy people’s needs but also have to compete with companies from all over the World; and this is very difficult for them because the workforce is cheaper in those other countries. The situation gets worse if we consider the fact that there are less and less highly qualified professionals in the US. The reason of this seems to be that many people do not finish high schools nor do not do a degree course because they think they do not need it, they could be content with a badly-paid job. Finally, but not less important, it is the fact that American population will continue to grow and became older and diverse. In this context, the immigration would have an effect not only in the population’s growth but also in the workforce (according to a report of ETS, between 2000 and 2005, two-thirds of the nation’s civilian labor-force growth and 86 percent of its employment growth was generated by new immigrant arrivals.)

Based on all this information, I would say that the US future may be a real nightmare. Americans should take measures before it is too late.