I worked at Burger Kang 35 years ago, it only lasted a few weeks. It sucked, so I found another job. These days I am highly skilled and compensated in an entirely different field.

This is unfortunately why stem and advanced degrees are a meme. Not everyone can or wants to STEM and if you added a million more capable STEM grads all you would get is cashiers at the grocery store who can code in PERL. Or they can just flood the labor market with visa holders who copy and paste from GitHub. Or you get a scenario where only 1 in 6 law school grads can find work as an attorney, or the med school grads end up in low paying family practice or outpatient clinic work, too afraid to give even an aspirin and just fondle nuts all day for sports physicals.

Manufacturing has to make a comeback and you would think environmentalists would want durable goods produced domestically that don't have to travel the world over in shipping containers, from countries with nonexistent environmental standards that use the cheapest and least durable materials possible.

America has been (((engineered))) into a service economy.

It's why i am enjoying this. The refineries are breaking down. You have to understand, that this is a catastrophe for the entire world, and they were not paying attention. When enough of them break down, the Oil industry will demand the removal of EPA regulations so that they can build whatever they want, and they will get it. This may happen this year, and it will be the finial demoralization for the left.

But before that happens, gas will get so expensive that the service industries will collapse. The service industries, employ the left. at 8 to 12 dollars a gallon, which will be october's gas prices because 18 month lead time for refinery parts and repairs; it will be far too expensive for people to partake in most of the services they used to. It will be a complete correction of the US economy.