I’m not saying we should cut corners. We simply have to increase production capacity - and that means we need more welders, plumbers, electricians, etc etc. The shipyards are experiencing a shortage of skilled tradesmen needed to build boats. Its not just submarines, its all warships, but submarines are the most critical. Our technology for submarines is far more advanced than China’s but we are going to need more boats.
Maybe parents need to quit putting their kids in college where they don’t learn 💩 and get jobs as Mc Donald’s workers or community organizers that are dumber than 💩, and help them pay for trades school. I know farm kids smarter than the idiots graduating college. The parents suck. They don’t teach, they don’t demand performance goals and use public education for day care. You want production. Let’s start by teaching kids how to effing get dirty and work.
If we push our educational system to reform it's attitudes toward skilled trades it will still take 12 to 15 years before you would see any results. Of course our educational institutions will fight tooth-and-nail to retain their power, so the solutions will have to come from elsewhere.