Tom Geohagen put it best (paraphrasing, from memory):
every time a Democrat starts talking about retraining, he loses another 100,000 votes.
mbs
So all this Reichian protect-the-worker lifelong-learning public-education education-and-training for a dynamic new economy where people switch careers several times over a lifetime--the support base for these kinds of policies are confined to New Democrats, Bleeding-Heart (or is that "Bleating Heart"?) Liberals, and other Rootless Cosmopolites.
:-)
Brad DeLong