The U.S. Navy has seen its ship production drop to a 25-year low, falling behind Chinese production even as the service faces increasingly complex threats around the world.
While I am not a conservative, I may agree with you strongly on education. College degrees are massively overinflated in value and propped up by government-backed student debt. We need to get away from this idea that everyone needs to go to college to secure their best life because we critically need these trade skills in the economy, in conjunction with policies that support these workers with fair compensation for their high technical skill.
This system we have today cannot possibly be sustainable.
I know people with master’s degrees who work in construction. They could have saved a lot of time and money by entering construction from the start.
There is nothing wrong with a trade. Most of my family works in a trade.
I think the problem is people have focused on college degrees as being magical, and people rush to get them without thinking how they will benefit them or make them employable.
Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters all make good money.
If we every want to grow out middle class, that is how we do it.
While I am not a conservative, I may agree with you strongly on education. College degrees are massively overinflated in value and propped up by government-backed student debt. We need to get away from this idea that everyone needs to go to college to secure their best life because we critically need these trade skills in the economy, in conjunction with policies that support these workers with fair compensation for their high technical skill.
This system we have today cannot possibly be sustainable.
I know people with master’s degrees who work in construction. They could have saved a lot of time and money by entering construction from the start.
There is nothing wrong with a trade. Most of my family works in a trade.
I think the problem is people have focused on college degrees as being magical, and people rush to get them without thinking how they will benefit them or make them employable.
Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters all make good money.
If we every want to grow out middle class, that is how we do it.