I agree that its ridiculous to blame this problem on immigrants and their children. Yes, of course, this country needs to educate all its residents, that's right, residents, not just citizens, to be contributing members of society. But the unemployment rate among young people is a larger issue of the establishment of corporate America being unwilling to change the way they do business.

I am 23. I just graduated in May from Occidental College in Los Angeles, Summa Cum Laude, with an impressive set of awards and honors. I can't find a job. I'm working as a temp Production Assistant for a commercial production company-- I was hired by a friend as a favor. I was turned away by a normal temporary office worker's agency because I "wasn't qualified." Many of my friends under 26 have been fired from jobs they've held for a few years and counted on having a future with. I'm talking about my sister, an educator, my friend Matt who is a civil engineer, my friend Peter who is a consultant on sustainable architecture, my friend Karen, a writer. How will companies survive if they don't take part of the burden for training new, young and eager members of the work force? We all want to work, we all want to contribute. But we can't do it on our own, and we can't afford to wait until 2011 to stop living in debt and off of our parent's retirement funds. Our business society must be restructured to incorporate a diverse workforce of ages, races, genders and any other category you can think of-- because if our ways of doing business don't change, this will all happen again to my children.

Oh, and aside from trying to find a job, I'm also trying to be an actor. And yes, I do believe that's a valuable social and political tool that I will use to enact change in our nation. And no, I won't put it aside to just find a job that will fit into the system. All of us young people have dreams-- artistic, entrepreneurial, corporate, diplomatic, global, local... and there should be a way, there has to be a way, for us to make this happen. Us meaning the educational system, the government, the corporate and business world, our parents, our selves.

Great! Frum and his neocon allies are ready to support funding college grants, job training programs and labor unions that help ensure decent pay? It's about time!

Please, no more David Frum and his conservative racist propaganda. I'm a regular listener of NPR so I won't have to listen to the David Frum's of conservative media on my airwaves.

His recent commentary attacked the new immigrant population when he himself is a Canadian immigrant who just recently became naturalized in 2007. Frum was also a former speech writer for Bush. And the American Enterprise Institute where he is a fellow is a conservative think tank that has shaped much of Bush's public policies. So, evidently, David Frum is confused and has a bias.

Also, since when does college-educated translate into skilled? I am college educated, but in my work experience have found that some of the most valuable people at work are those who didn't attend college and have learned everything on the job. They have more real-world experience than any recent college grad and know how to get the job done. Even those who have attended college often change careers without having to return to school. So add classist to the list of issues I have with David Frum.

NOTE: I'm biracial, educated (aren't we all), and have been working as an art director after leaving my public relations job 10 years ago. I got hired based on my portfolio not because I graduated with a degree in graphic design. I have Mayan ancestors and ancestors who were traced back to the Mayflower and the American Revolution. I am proud of my dual ancestry and can't imagine how I could have existed if racist policies like those endorsed by David Frum were in our Constitution.

Once again, David Frum has tucked a poisonous Right Wing propaganda pill inside an ostensibly "objective" commentary. Was I the only listener who noticed that in bemoaning (correctly) the poor skills of today's underclass youth, he placed ALL the blame on immigrants and their children?

Any teacher or professor in America will tell you that the skill-levels of ALL children they see--the vast majority of whom are white and native-born--have plunged dismally in recent decades.

I agree that it's a serious problem, but immigrant children are hardly its cause. More likely, in my opinion, is the social environment that has been largely created by Mr. Frum's crowd. Their propaganda pills (such as that increasing shareholder profits should be the sole goal of business institutions, that any parent can teach better than a trained educator, and that all schools should be privatized) have been swallowed by too many Americans. The policies of employers who've bought those destructive beliefs have forced workers' wages to decline steadily against the cost of living for the past three decades, forcing both parents to work and leaving kids with scant support or discipline at home. Meanwhile, people like Mr. Frum have raged against teachers serving "in loco parentis" (in place of parents), thus cutting kids off from their final hope of any adult discipline or support whatsoever.

What ye sow, so shall ye reap. I just wish Mr. Frum and his fellow defenders of corporate interests would be honest enough to accept the blame for the damage they've done to our nation, our families, and our kids, instead of pointing the finger at yet another population of dark-skinned scapegoats.

NOTE: I'm white, educated, a former bank executive, longtime business-owner and consultant, and was born of ancestors who arrived here 15 years after the Mayflower.