Originally Posted by kane

Mike Rowe has been talking a lot about this recently. He was saying that right now there are about 3 million jobs in America that simply can't be filled because there aren't enough qualified people to do the work. This is because more people are going to college to get a bachelors degree and not going to trade schools so we actually have a shortage of things like mechanics and plumbers etc. These are jobs that can't really be outsourced.

Add in that we have twice as many people graduating with liberal arts degrees than degrees in various applied sciences and many of those who have gone to college now have a degree that doesn't really help them get a good job so all they really have done is likely run up a bunch of debt while going to school.