@sickburnbro @petra @deprecated_ii The problem is we've promised all the dirty jobs people that their kids can go to college. That became "the American Dream" and you aren't going to propagandize Millennials and younger gens out of their white collar fantasies.

Plus we automated a lot of the factory jobs away since the 70s. When Obama did his Green Revolution bit, opening a bunch of expensive factories with government money, they only created 50-75 jobs each. That's nice in a small town, but not nearly enough raw numbers for a working population of 150 million.