[onewhippedpuppy]

The article ends with this question: "What is America going to do without skilled workers who can build and fix things?"

The answer is to pay out the nose to the few remaining skilled tradesmen, based on simple supply and demand they will be able to charge a small fortune for their work.

This is an incredible failure of high schools to prepare students for life. It's also a byproduct of the snobbery and bias that educators put on education. To most teachers it's obvious that if you aren't going to college, you're going nowhere. I know a lot of college grads with mediocre jobs and $50k in debt. I know a lot of blue collar workers with great jobs, their pay easily surpasses that which an average college grad would obtain. Skilled trades can be a fantastic way to make a living, I just wish our educators weren't so ignorant. I really like this speech, and it's very relevant to this topic.