Kids get less and less useful training and more and more about how to do well on multiple guess tests. Not many get shops classes either. Or can balance a checkbook. You'd be surprised at how few even know how to alphabetize a list of names without a computer. My MD friend's constantly complaining about the declining level of skills for physician's assistants.
But it's actually going to be good for the economy as temporarily, at least, insurers inject a lot of rebuilding cash into the local economy. Of course, they'll get it all back once they send out the next premium bills . . .
I have a mound of not quite mulch still sitting in my front yard from when they hacked up the remaining roots of the red maple that died quite some time ago (the last huge ice storm). The city assures me it will "dissipate naturally" but it hasn't gone anywhere. My wife's likely to force the issue soon, and make me spread it around the shrubs and such. I'm just determined to prove the city's lying through their teeth when they say "it will disappear naturally."
Yep, I pay over $1000 a year to just the city in taxes and I get garbage collection, the occasional tree removed and very little else for that $.
-- Bobby G.