Are you REALLY suggesting that all of those "blue-collar" workers who sent their kids to college to enable those kids to get "white-collar" jobs were WRONG?
If so, I gather you don't have much faith in the American Dream.
And would you please state just how many new battleships it will take to keep every single drugged-up loser from detonating himself on a commuter bus?
I'd rather not gear up to fight a 1950's style war in the 21st Century.
But you are free to disagree.
"Are you REALLY suggesting that all of those "blue-collar" workers who sent their kids to college to enable those kids to get "white-collar" jobs were WRONG?
If so, I gather you don't have much faith in the American Dream."
Except most of those blue-collar workers, when they were imagining the white-collar jobs their kids would be in, were probably seeing management and engineering positions for UNITED STATES BASED MANUFACTURING PLANTS! And the American dream isn't worth much if it ends up under the treads of a foreign power's tanks.
"And would you please state just how many new battleships it will take to keep every single drugged-up loser from detonating himself on a commuter bus?"
I see you're another one that's so blinded by the business aspect of everything, as well as a fixation on terrorism as the only physical threat, that you don't see the rapidly growing threat China poses to this country. With every passing year the military technological and personnel-skill gap between China and USA closes by two years (with 90-95% of that gap-closure due to free-trader technology & funding investments). You may think that mass warfare will never re-occur, but the Chinese are smart enough to know that it can and will. And their first order of business is to make sure free-traders like you do half the job for them by undermining their opponent's industry before warfare ever starts.
"And would you please state just how many new battleships it will take to keep every single drugged-up loser from detonating himself on a commuter bus?"
Drugged-up losers don't detonate themselves up on buses, Muslims do. Far more likely to find a terrorist at a Mosque than a Grateful Dead concert.