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[We’re going to have trouble soon in this country with spare unqualified labor.]

I think we saw that in a couple of American cities the last couple of years....

12 posted on 06/23/2017 2:21:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)

Yep. Nothing to offer in the way of job skills and a decline in the welfare state will lead to dangerous conditions.

22 posted on 06/23/2017 2:31:18 PM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)

That is the problem, I fear, with the modern economy. Paradoxically, while we live in an age of unprecedented opportunity, no, or low-skill individuals will have no seat at the table. That was the purpose of welfare all along. The days when you could earn a living on an assembly line, or swinging a sledge hammer are long gone. You had to have a place to soak up those without skills, discipline or ambition. Of course the left ENCOURAGES that ‘skill’ set. It is their base. Sooner or later there will be a critical mass, or a breaking point, or a day of reckoning...