What happening to the U.S.A.???

[Bill M]

I can tell ya what happened....we got soft and dont want to get our fingers dirty. We can only push paper work around and even that we out-source over seas. My place is trying to hire a good Toolmaker and cant find any. At my job the youngest Toolmaker is 48 and the oldest is retiring this coming Friday and we lost one a few months ago to become a fireman in Iraq, the others are all in there 50's. This country is in trouble and its our own fault including myself, we all wanted a better life for our kids and of course college was the answer but at a huge cost to our manufacturing as no new blood is replacing the old guards, the knowledge of making things will be lost and only read about in books, very sad to see this happen as I know everything we use today is first made by toolmakers/machinists and its soon going over seas since we dont teach it to anyone anymore. We are done as an industrial nation.Had to rant, it ticks me off..and companies dont want to pay to teach either.