[dragnet2]

I can remember, not so long ago, when welding was a high paying craft and knew several who became welders. I wonder what the pay for skilled welders has done over the past thirty or forty years, if it's still good pay, or if the pay has been undercut by cheap immigrant workers, both legal and illegal.

Welding wages have been gutted by low wage illegals, just like all of the construction industry, and half a dozen other industries.

[dfwgator]

And we are going to pay the price in about 10-20 years when all of the McMansions built by cheap labor start falling apart and have to be torn down.