Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[odiemutt]

Plumbers make too much, it's not like anyone who wants to be a plumber can. It's a closed trade, to get a license you have to follow the rules, they limit the number of licenses. There's currently a shortage of plumbers given the excess building boom. When housing boom slows down lotsa trade people will be hungry for work... that will bring prices down.

WRT Florida only 3% mfg... you could almost say Florida is giant retirement home or vacation land, so it's heavily slanted toward service industry. I don't think it's fair to extrapolate that to the entire country.

Can the country go on indefinitly being only service industry (and that's only hands on service which requires physical presence here, other service like call centers are being exported)? Ultimately we have to produce something of value. Otherwise we're just living on the accumulated saving of 250yrs since the country was born. Eventually (not too far away) we'll be bankrupt.

What bothers me is your dismissive attitude toward people who aren't independtly wealthy. It's a "Let them eat cake" attitude... and we see what happens... revolution.