Free-market wonks were just getting started desensitizing us to the coming upheaval. I say we should round up illiterates and put them in work labor camps so they can make toys for Disney, so we can compete in the new global economy. We need slave labor in this country because the way it stands now, y'know, we can't compete with the Tiger Nations. In my heart, I don't think she really believed I meant that. I didn't mean it, but felt there's nothing funny about rounding up illiterates.
Illiteracy is serious, and people are uncomfortable laughing about it.
Not that I'm worried. Illiterates don't start a lot of letter-writing campaigns. Ronald Reagan taught me that. Then he'd raise taxes. He says it, so you just believe it.