Second rate or not we need somebody doing them.
Too many thinkers and not enough doers gets the country sitting and thinking how shitty it is instead of doing something about it.
How are you going to outsource infrastructure and construction jobs again?
By the time a union guy graduates instead of going into debt for 4 years in a college for a major that is either saturated or hires for $50k a year at best, they will have money in the bank with similar pay instead of being in debt, with job security.