[Tallguy]

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.

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.

[FLT-bird]

Expand trade schools and community colleges that teach these kinds of skills. Also put more money into scholarships for people to get this kind of training and advertise the jobs available.

[Antoninus]

. Of course our educational institutions will fight tooth-and-nail to retain their power, so the solutions will have to come from elsewhere.

The solution is to encourage homeschooling. The public school model is an antique at this point, and not something we should be nostalgic about.