Somehow, I've been waiting for someone to say something like that.
Funny, I got paid years ago to write the same warnings which just came from that "unprestigious" Maryland community college, but were instead coming from very high muckety-mucks in your federal government, who were warning about the potential shortage of skilled laborers in this country (not to mention a potential shortage of fat-cat guys who can make BIG money running companies full of skilled laborers!)
In our society today and for the past several decades, it has been respectable and expected that a person will complete at least four years of college and get a fancy degree. Yet, who is going to shine the shoes, fix the toilets and faucets, install the roofs, clean the houses, put out fires, catch the criminals, carry us to the hospital in an ambulance and care for us when we're there, and do all the other things which keep life comfortable for the people who have the fancy degrees and big incomes?
We will have a shortage of these handy-and-trained little people unless we can find a way to provide them with affordable housing, so your government has been spending great amounts of your tax money to provide said housing at public expense--and people are now griping that people are buying too many houses too fast and for too much money.
I'm not the best at describing the scenario I'm trying to create here, but some people will get the idea and others won't, I'm sure. WE HAVE A CONUNDRUM in the housing/labor/population situation, and should either get used to it (and pay big bucks when we need a scarce plumber) or find a way to resolve it (and create more plumbers who can afford to live near us). |
