TRUMPIAN TRIPLE WHAMMY

TRUMPIAN TRIPLE WHAMMY

Passing by a bus stop the other day, I saw three migrant workers standing around, smoking real cigarettes and sharing a six-pack of ice colds. They were filthy, had toolbelts, and looked as if they’d spent the entire day doing actually productive work.

It’s also likely they were mostly or entirely illegal labor.

I thought to myself: If only we could trade these guys for every gender studies major that graduates with $250,000 in debt. Congrats, Lyndsy with two Ys, you belong to Guatemala now. Yeah, we traded you for Javier, who works a real job, smokes actual tobacco, and enjoys ice colds like the rest of us.

Good luck lecturing native Guatemalans about problematic gendered language!

We both know that’s not how it works, but it’s fun to imagine. In reality, even people who intend to obey laws, learn the language, and work their hind parts off need to do so legally.

So now certain labor sectors are worried about raids. They should be. They employ illegal labor in order to keep costs low, sure, but also to exploit labor with no recourse. Line-always-goes-up libertarians would point to costs on the consumer, but we both know bosses simply pocket the difference. Or their overlords on Wall Street do. Why wouldn’t they?

Did you hear that skilled trades are recruiting kids out of high school now? $70,000 a year to be a welder at 17 years old. Who needs college?

American trades are hurting, there’s no doubt about that. The average age of a certified skilled tradesman is mid-50s. That means most of the legal, career types are getting ready to leave the workforce.

Construction, electricity, plumbing, large and small engine maintenance. These industries are like flight, they’re not going anywhere in the future and they’re in need of constant replenishment. They’re also dominated by poorly trained illegals.

In the meantime, three things are happening.

One is that American males are becoming much less likely to attend college. Why would they? They’ve become madrasas for all the left’s worst pseudoreligious excesses, particularly hostility to masculinity.

So there’s almost certainly an incoming explosion of vocational technical training geared toward high school aged men. They need to do something and the demand will be met. My own nephew will likely be a professional carpenter by the age of 20. You know what else? He’ll be married, own a home, and have kids sooner too.

There’s also the fact that the bubble is going to burst on these universities. There’s only so long you can gorge on taxpayer debt and private debt to fund meaningless majors that do nothing to prepare kids for real life until reality washes in and your castle made of debt melts.

Harvard is laying off researchers and taking on billions in new debt and selling off stakes in private equity in order to stave off the fund shortage imposed by Trump, but that’ll only last so long. Eventually you have to cut the fat, and the fat is not only “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” administrators. No, eventually universities will have to face reality and start seriously considering cuts to more pointless departments.

Activists who value spending seven years studying the intersection of race, culture and 17th century philosophy will whine incessantly about how racist it is their major is shutting down, but we all know it’s an utterly wasteful pursuit. It’s a self-licking ice cream cone of waste. The best of you simply gain employment at a university teaching the same claptrap and never pay off your debts. The worst of you end up at Starbucks griping about your uniforms … and never pay off your debts.

As I’ve said before, folks, money talks and bullshit walks.

So universities will start trimming away at debt-gobbling pursuits that masquerade as scholarship and get back to the stuff that counts. Girls who would get radicalized at universities won’t have a place to get radicalized unless they want to study biology. In the meantime, boys will learn how to build again. They won’t have any debt and they’ll be in stable jobs.

All those girls who aren’t getting radicalized at bogus university programs will have to go somewhere. Maybe marriage instead? Maybe kids? Maybe college football on Saturdays and church on Sundays? How’s that for radical?

Finally, illegal labor won’t be so easy to exploit, driving the necessity for American boys to be trained in actual, productive work.

Colleges shutting down their leftist madrasas? Illegals on planes out of the country? Stanley builds homes and marries Cindy Loo right out of high school?

It’s a triple whammy of sorts that will sap all the worst parts of our society and direct them inwards.

Or maybe it’s just a dream. We’ll have to wait and see.

AUTHOR

Geoffrey Ingersoll

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