[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Here's the job future in America. Young (and not so young) people will have to receive training in skills that are not easily exportable.

You can't send the leaking plumbing in your house to India for repair. If your heat pump stops working, you won't send it overseas for repair. If you need a new transmission in your car, you won't send it to China for a rebuild.

[Black Agnes]

They'll just manufacture things so cheaply it won't pay to have them repaired. When was the last time you had a TV repaired, or VCR or tuner or....?

[Billy_bob_bob]

You nailed it on the head. I'm currently looking into the possibility of purchasing a local business, something like commercial refrigeration or HVAC. Jobs that they don't train for in China or India, and jobs that have to be done on site.

Pretty sad to have to think this way. We have been betrayed.

[nygoose]

Plumbing, carpentry and electrical unions control entry into those trades. By the time all the relatives of current union workers and the affirmative action types get the apprentice jobs, you are out of luck. Period. Sorry, pal.

[plusone]

True, those types of sevices are hard to export. But if everyone else is un/under-employed, who will have the money to hire plumbers, electricians, mechanics, etc?

[ETERNAL WARMING]

You can't send the leaking plumbing in your house to India for repair.

Not necessary to send your plumbing...as illegals keep taking the jobs, all you'll need to do is speak Spanish to get your plumbing fixed.