Our topic today is the skillz gap, a problem so fiercely urgent that only the nation’s preeminent techno-wonder kid can even begin to have the smarts to address it. I am talking about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and in the time that it took me to type his names our failed and failing public schools failed to produce yet more workers skilled enough to work at what is indisputably the most
amazing company in human history. So what a relief to learn this week that Mr. Z is starting a
new lobbying effort that will tackle the skillz gap once and for all. Let me see if I can break it down for you non-genius style. You see, because of the union-stifling and non-excellence of our failed and failing schools, companies like Microsoft and Facebook say that they can’t find enough skilled workers. Now if you add
‘willing to work for less’to the end of that sentence you will be five words closer to reality, which as millions of
laid-off tech workers can testify is a harsh place to be. This is where Mr. Z and his cool Silicon Valley Posse come in. You see, they’ve figured out how to solve both the fake problem and the real problem at the same time. Step one: say skillz gap
Our topic today is the skillz gap, a problem so fiercely urgent that only the nation’s preeminent techno-wonder kid can even begin to have the smarts to address it. I am talking about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and in the time that it took me to type his names our failed and failing public schools failed to produce yet more workers skilled enough to work at what is indisputably the mostamazing company in human history. So what a relief to learn this week that Mr. Z is starting a new lobbying effort that will tackle the skillz gap once and for all. Let me see if I can break it down for you non-genius style. You see, because of the union-stifling and non-excellence of our failed and failing schools, companies like Microsoft and Facebook say that they can’t find enough skilled workers. Now if you add ‘willing to work for less’to the end of that sentence you will be five words closer to reality, which as millions of laid-off tech workers can testify is a harsh place to be. This is where Mr. Z and his cool Silicon Valley Posse come in. You see, they’ve figured out how to solve both the fake problem and the real problem at the same time. Step one: say skillz gap 
