I remember watching a season of This Old House on PBS several years ago and they were working in partnership with Mike Rowe in trying to get kids interested in working in the trades since there is a huge shortage. The majority of skilled trades workers are aging out of the work force and there aren't enough people coming in to replace them.

I used to wonder why going to college was pushed so hard in television shows, movies and schools. Especially after the first time I heard years ago from a coworker that you don't go to college to learn a career you go for the experience. That made 100% no sense to me. Why are you going to go into that kind of debt for an experience? I understand now. They push it so they can indoctrinate you. I didn't see it for a long time and still don't want to believe it, but they're no longer even trying to hide it. They're calling it what it is.

Pushing college and ignoring the trades makes this country weaker by not giving people the chance to own their business, work for themselves, make good money and owe barely anything for learning their trade. It's definitely pushing ideas that harm this country and putting folks in the position to be bought for votes.

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