The point is that we have too many people getting secondary educations that aren't work a bucket of spit, and aren't willing to go learn a TRADE. Yes, there are a ton of positions open on job boards, but those aren't all going to be hired. Hell, PNC Bank posts a dozen or more positions a day...they aren't hiring at that rate...they are fishing for elite candidates.
As for the responsibility...the Government already provides 13 YEARS of education starting at age 5...and as Sarge said, if you want more "on the job" training the Military will actually pay you to learn those skills. It is the responsibility of the person to go out and find the education and training for a job. If you want a well-paying job, walk onto a construction job and offer yourself as a laborer or an apprentice and they will damn-near hire you on the spot. Work is brutal as hell, but in most cases they'll pay you above minimum wage...or you'll be in a union where your wages are set and your employment protected.
Then there's this, the United States of America offers more opportunity for entrepreneurs than any nation on this planet...past or present. When my grandfather returned from World War 2, he had an 8th grade education and lived in one of the poorest sections of the country (SE Alabama/NW Florida). He decided that he could probably be a plumber so he signed-on as an apprentice and quickly figured out how to price jobs and plan construction. USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE He borrowed $30 from his dentist to pay for his plumber's license, USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE studied in the library and USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE passed his test. USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE He had a truck that he used for jobs and just went around fixing **** until my uncle got home from school (7th grade)...and the two would work the afternoons. That was 1959. By 1980 USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE my grandfather's plumbing company was valued at almost a million dollars and USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE had just landed the contract for a large water park in Panama City Beach. By the end of the 80's, USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE the company was worth several million and doing almost 100% of all work at the two military bases in town. USING HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE He retired comfortably, not wealthy, and left a WHITE PRIVILEGE legacy for the family. (too bad the boys ran the business into the ground)...
Even still, if you want to succeed in America you can...USING WHITE PRIVILEGE just get off your *** and go do it.