[familyop]

"The welfare leeches, the SSDI takers, the long term unemployed - none of them want to work in jobs like that (heat, cold, manual labor)."

That's a good point, but bipartisan, government-paid NIMBYs have effectively outlawed all kinds of truly productive work (making parts, doing repairs, etc.) with environmentalist, animal-worship and zoning regulations to support their declining property values and general coveting tendencies. They've done so with local governments, even in the middle of nowhere.

I'm not on welfare. But I, for one, plan to start producing something more useful (machining, fab, etc., in a cheap, little redneck shop with no class), after the busybody NIMBYs lose their regulatory jobs, pensions and political pull in the default process. They're commies, all (and lazy). I'll do so, when there's no such thing as an impact fee. I'll do so, when it's no longer against the law for a man to work on his own property without paying thousands of dollars in legalized extortion fees, "industrial park" rent and the like.

[SkyPilot]

Agree with you 100%. The government has made it all but impossible to earn your own living. People used to flock to the US because we were one of the few nations that not only allowed that but encouraged it.