“Bottom line: the US needs to create sustained job growth involving skilled professionals with high wage earning potential, NOT more guys laying concrete.”
We had this in the 70’s, late 80’s then early 90’s everyone saw the supposed Golden Goose in China and Mexico...manufacturing ran to China and Mexico to build plants and transfer production there. Build it cheaper... Sure, technology comes from the great minds here in the US but we can’t keep manufacturing here? WTF?... Unions fault?...
Business leaders only know how to grow companies via buy outs and mass layoffs to get shareholders excited. What ever happened to the real way of doing business?...
We also need real jobs for low skill workers. What else but restless anger if all the high school graduates and drop outs and immigrants with less education have NO work?
Then you have an employed caste and an unemployed caste. Bad idea.
Killed by the government & the liberals (and their assorted sub groups).
And the EPA.