| Superman4 said: Yes the more Liberal leaning education system leans on College more than trades and aside from wasting money on College I am all for an education. The issue is that if you have the void being filled it goes away and has no need for change. If however everyone starts playing by the rules and a void in labor opens up it will be filled. I would leave my IT job in a minute for a good paying construction job, the problem is they are filled with low wage illegals. I know this for a fact because I have a couple buddies that are jobsite foremans and say that 90% of the people they work with are illegal. I was doing some welding for a company on the weekends and out of 50 employees not including managers, 4 were legal. Everyone else was illegal and not recieving benefits while taking a way lower wage than I was getting for the same work. |
But like I said, the void hasn't been filled. There are still plenty of jobs in the trades and in agriculture. Just google "labor shortage construction" and you will find a plethora of articles detailing how there is a current labor crisis in construction. Here is one article from Texas which describes how these labor shortages are causing issues post Harvey: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-construction-worker-shortage-could-weigh-on-harvey-recovery-2017-9
Without illegal labor, I wouldn't be surprised to see industries which largely rely on illegals to suffer some pretty disastrous consequences. Even with illegal labor, the void isn't anywhere close to being filled. There are plenty of jobs for Americans willing to take them.
