You nailed it Nully. My sentiments exactly. My other son is in the trades, electrical, construction, etc., and his pay scale has gone way down, and the jobs just aren't out there. No.. not even in Mass and NH. I do know about Calif and FL and I see who's doing all his kind of work there, and I know what they're making. Nothing he can live on.
You have to be a little nuts today to pay the college tuitions knowing that your job is probably going to be outsourced to some other country by the time you get out. Every day our big companys are closing shops and filing chapter 11's trying to stay viable.
Oh, to that list of yours,.. add Walmart, Time Warner and a few others that are sucking up everyone else.. Pretty soon every community will have a Mall with a Walmart, a Home Depot, and a Medi-mart or the like for our free prescriptions.. Then we'll be all set..right?
From cradle to grave, our government, Local and Federal will solve it all for us..and guess what that's called???