by As college prices soar and diversity makes it so that young men compete for jobs that are in shorter supply, many are sounding the warning bells. How can we Make America Great Again if we don’t make anything in America? How can we make ourselves great if we give the jobs and the opportunities to those that are not American– either in foreign countries through trade, or here at home with policies that prefer those from overseas?
If we are to complete the work of making the United States once more an economic superpower, we need to once more become a nation that makes things. Ships, great buildings, factories, automobiles, and much more. And to do that, we need young men-welders, plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, young men with calluses on their hands and a satisfactory week’s pay in their pockets. Young men like that built America’s robust middle class, and young men like that will restore it.
To get there, we need to do two things: Restore our emphasis on the trades and reduce the social safety net that has become a hammock; it shouldn’t be easy for the able-bodied to get by unless they work. Incentives matter.
Source: Mike Rowe Has a Warning: Young Men Are Dropping Out of the Workforce – RedState
