John Ratzenberger’s mission these days is to push for the importance of trade schools and changing the culture to make it honorable to be a plumber, electrician or heavy equipment operator. We are in need of these people as a lot of them are retiring and because everyone is encouraged to go to college. I agree. I learned more practical stuff from guys in the trades than I did in four years of college.
He has a great statement on this near the bottom of the page.
Excellent post.
I knew John was on our side, but I had no idea how involved he was.
This is a point I have been pushing for years.
We need people who can make, build, invent and repair THINGS. If we somehow could turn 50,000 of our destructive/make-work lawyers and government inspectors into constructive skilled tradesmen, this country would be on a much more sane future glide path.