On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:45:29 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 2/7/2015 3:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>>
>> Everything is made in China because China has a glut of highly skilled
>> workers in the manufacturing trades, and since there are so many
>> people who need those jobs they work cheap. The US has no skilled
>> labor apprentiship programs anymore... once the present aging skilled
>> work force dies off it's really gonna be all over for the US... a
>> society cannot survive with all desk drivers/pencil pushers. Better
>> teach your grand children how to pick produce, mow lawns, and do
>> laundry.
>>
>
>In 10 years a skilled machine operator will be the guy putting the
>returnable cans in the machine for the deposit.

Huh? Who's going to build the can machines? Better, who's going to
build the tooling that makes the cans? BTW, there is no such thing as
a skilled *operater*... any monkey can be trained to stamp out
widgets.