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[quote=Anonymous]I like reading David Brooks. He’s a little too limousine liberal for me, but I appreciate the analysis. Both he, and Trump, want to move manufacturing jobs back to America. The problem with this plan is that these jobs are being automated. We can’t social engineer a middle class by creating work for them that the free market doesn’t need.

We are a knowledge based society and everyone needs a skill to receive a decent paying job. It can be trades, but it’s got to be something. Many of the people I see that are disenchanted with current American society are those that do not have a skill. Even soft science college graduates are working at Starbucks. They really don’t have a skill.

High schools need to do a better job at ensuring each graduate has a path towards employment. If college is out of the picture, then a trade.

I agree with public service as an option. It would give kids not interested in military service a place to get a skill. So many trades jobs are going to immigrant labor.

And we need to push science. As a country, we’re still importing scientists. We have good paying jobs in American. We don’t have enough students willing to take hard science classes. [/quote]

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