Economy: "It's all over"

Up here in northern Wisconsin and the U.P. of Michigan (look at a map) the Industrial Age might be collapsing a little more quickly than elsewhere.  There are simply too few jobs for those without a college education.

I'm riding my bike to the mailbox and start talking with a trucker who hauls logs from the forest to the paper mill.  He said he gets only $10 for loading up the whole truck full of logs.  Pointing to his Peterbuilt cab with all its computers, "That thing has more brains than I do."  He's 56, no college degree.  "It's all over," he says about his job and pay prospects.  He's right.