So were mine ---- and I actually think I'll end up okay --- I've got two jobs now and taking classes, I've learned Spanish, and all the rest ---- I'm ready, you might be. But it's not really about just you and me ---- it's what is happening to the majority of Americans, including the lower skilled Americans who will never work again because millions of factory jobs and garment worker jobs are gone forever. And American programmers who will quickly slip backward in their skills if having to clean carpets for a living instead of programming. It matters what happens to the most Americans --- I think the Founding Fathers realized that. Most of them could have opted for the aristocracy and gotten themselves into that class easily enough ---- but they had a greater vision.
If you were born with an IQ of 90, you are low normal. You have a high school diploma, but you struggled through school, you are able, willing to work with some training, and there were jobs for you.
These people can not go to college and get into the latest greatest high tech field. It's not available to them. There was entry level manufacturing work for people like this in the past, that paid them for sweat, more than for their brains. They did fine. Telling a person with a masters degree in Computer Engineering that he has to now get a degree in say plasma screen tech, is a burden and a chore, but it is something they can do.
If you are not God given the ability to do that though, your options in the global market are rapidly shrinking however. The Joe Six packs of this country are about to take a punch to the diaphragm and nobody has any good answers as to what can or should be done about it.