Probably the single best speech I’ve seen on what America really needs came from Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs”. We don’t need butts at desks, we need diggers, drillers, drivers, and builders.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2650612/posts
Well, that’s an issue right there.
Many middle class parents push their kids to go to college, because they want to see them work in an office with a computer. They don’t want to see them do any sort of manual labor, even if some of those laboring jobs pay more than the desk job with a computer.
There’s anecdotal evidence that many of the “dirty” jobs in this country are now being done by people who were not born in this country. It seems a paradox that we have millions of ghetto youth and other low skilled people, who allegedly can’t get jobs. Yet we import millions to do various low skilled but needed jobs.