To the point: Sharp views on lost jobs, bad schools, Canadian secessionists and exploiting horror

WATCHING JOBS GO

Half of all Americans give the United States a "D" or "F" grade on protecting American jobs from going overseas, according to a survey, but don't really know what the government can do. The best words to sum up public attitudes are frustration and fatalism.

Seventy-eight percent said it's unrealistic to believe U.S. firms will keep jobs at home "when labor is cheaper elsewhere." About half said it's unrealistic to expect American companies to have the same standards abroad as they do at home.

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WELCOME CANADIANS

A poll shows that a growing number of people in Western Canada are unhappy with the high-tax bureaucratic rule …