We spent decades having good, well-paying labor jobs for those that never went to college. You could advance as high and far as you were willing to work in the 1950's. Those jobs are mostly gone.
What's left is high-tech jobs, green energy jobs, professional jobs, but we've spent many years attacking and unfunding education, disparaging science and technology. We're too incapable at math, reading, science in the US. Those industries went elsewhere. We don't have the labor force for that.
We failed to adjust, and it's passed us by. I don't know if we'll ever be able to get our unemployment down past 5-6% again. The country simply refuses to invest in the type of jobs that can employ our unemployed: infrastructure repair, etc.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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