[quote=spdrun]If owners can do the work themselves, then perhaps the “destroyed” tradespeople aren’t needed after all. Time for them to go back to school or move somewhere else. In short: let ’em eat cake — don’t create more regulations for the sake of protecting unneeded jobs.[/quote]
I already commented on the need for sanitary regulations and that home owners can pull permits.
“unneeded jobs” I think plumbers are pretty needed and make significant contributions to society.
The problems in the building trades is not that they are unneeded (that comment is pretty ignorant and snobby).
The problems in the building trades are-
-a vicious boom and bust cycle (has been like this since before the founding of the nation).
-less jobs opportunities in manufacturing for non-college grads.
-illegal immigration.
I did not say the building trades are destroyed. I said the building trades are destroyed in Southern California.
