Stories like what you posted are what make me thing the USA is in a perhaps irreversible decline. In the 50s the US Navy decided to do the insane: put a nuclear reactor on a submarine. Admiral Rickover had convinced them to do it and then personally kicked ass, and then took names, fired people who weren’t on board, enforced his will on everyone and got it done in a couple of years. Boom. Now it takes years and years just to find qualified welders.
“Now it takes years and years just to find qualified welders.”
They’re all Chinese now. The question is whether a few would be willing to come over and help us.
Now it takes years and years just to find qualified welders.
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I know people who are ashamed their sons decided to become welders.
All the trades and crafts have been allowed to decline in numbers/quality and then are subjected to onerous regulation.
It is part of the overall plan for us all.