One million workers

I love this time of year because its when big companies publish fancy, good looking reports about how great they are. Apple routinely toots their own horn over their environmental record and their labor policies.
Here's a quote that caught my eye:
"Apple-designed training programs have educated more than one million supply chain employees about local laws, their rights as workers, occupational health and safety, and Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct."
(from http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/reports.html)

Apple has literally Hundreds of factories in China working to produce your glass-coated consumer products. Imagine if instead of outsourcing all of that mindless labor, Apple opened a manufacturing plant in America?
There are certainly a million highschool dropout Americans who could benefit from a solid manufacturing job. Apple is really about the only American company that has enough financial resources to do something like that. And they don't, simply because everyone wants cheap electronics.
Instead, we're fueling economies that are at odds with us, putting the nail in our own coffin by being a lazy society that doesn't particularly want to work for a living.