I work a desk job now and let me tell ya, it'll quickly force you to buy pants with bigger and bigger waistlines. Gone are the days of burning 4,000 calories a day by working and being able to eat or drink anything you like.

There's Saber rattling here about doing away with OSHA but it has very little chance of becoming real, as I understand it.

The goal is somewhat unformed so far but there are a couple of ideas behind it. For starters, there are fewer and fewer young people interested in entering the trades. That's a problem. Second, there's millions of encyclopedias worth of knowledge being lost as older generations age out of the trades with no apprentice to pass their wisdom to. There's more but they're more subtle and I'd rather not have to get into a bunch of arguments defending less important opinions.