[RockyMtnMan]

The white-collar types are the ones that start small businesses and employ blue-collar types. The blue-collar folks were told to improve their skills and move into the white-collar class long ago. Now those former blue-collar types are finding themselves in the same situation with their new white-collar brethren.

It it is in the common interest of both white and blue collar America to address this problem.

[Dane]

The white-collar types are the ones that start small businesses and employ blue-collar types. The blue-collar folks were told to improve their skills and move into the white-collar class long ago. Now those former blue-collar types are finding themselves in the same situation with their new white-collar brethren.

Huh, your above italicized passage is contradictory. In your first sentence you basically state that blue-collar types can't become white collar types and yet as you go on you are saying that former blue collar types had become white collar types.

You are spinning in circles, IMO.

[BradyLS]

The white-collar types are the ones that start small businesses and employ blue-collar types. The blue-collar folks were told to improve their skills and move into the white-collar class long ago. Now those former blue-collar types are finding themselves in the same situation with their new white-collar brethren.

That'd make a great Laurel and Hardy skit. Oliver in his blue flannels and suspenders sits grmiacing with a lunch box and a pink slip. Stanley, sad-faced in his white collar and starched black pants, joins him with his own pink slip.

"Well!" exclaims Ollie, "Here's another fine mess we've gotten ourselves into!" Then Stan bursts into tears...