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Blue Collar?
Schools do not train people to be highly-skilled blue-collar workers, or even semi-skilled. They just talk about "college." Math and science are taught as if they have no relevancy to real life. The society doesn't respect blue collar workers - they are mostly a dumb 'joke' on TV. Blue collar workers get laid off, probably more than white collar workers. Unions have been beated into the dust. The government under Nixon decided that we did not need a 'manufacturing economy.'
Need I say more? I don't think it is because kids are lazy, that is just 'same old, same old."