I don't care what kind of jobs you're talking about. There's nobody here to fill them. The last two years all we've heard is a giant sucking sound as people leave for the west. Most of them are living in company camps out there on site because there simply isn't an infrastructure there for them to live there.... so when they get sick of it all they come home for a while. I can't count how many friends I have out there right now. The fact that a coffee shop, contractor, welding shop, farm, or just about anyone else can't get good help around here now is only a side effect. We used to have a very cheap standard of living here but even we have seen a fairly rapid rise in the cost of most things due to increased labor costs to keep people here.
There is no appreciable amount of manufacturing of goods in this country anymore for the simple reason that the combination of a small, limited labor pool and increasing, expensive environmental standards has driven this work to South East Asia. We watched a 300 million dollar (1989 dollars when it was fully modernized) steel mill being sold for 10 million in 2001 and moved to India.... the end of the line for a 100 year old mill. At the end it employed nearly 1000 people, but in it's heyday during the second war there was close to 6000 employed on that site (not to mention the coal mines that supported it and the local power plants..... and those mines are now ALL closed too) .... and you know something? Hardly anyone notices that the damn things are gone today. The first year that the company turned a profit in 40 years was in I think 2004 when the bulk of the scrap from the various steel structures on site was sold. That ought to say a lot about the state of north american manufacturing.
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