We can’t do that, so you’ve got to be able to do the job perfectly from day one. The only people that can do that are people who are currently doing the same job someplace else. So it’s obviously pretty hard to find people if that’s your definition—if you say, “We want to hire people, and they’ve got to be doing the job right now”—because as you’ve probably heard, a lot of employers won’t accept applications from people who are currently unemployed. So basically we’re saying we’ve got to hire from our competitors. And you know what? There is kind of a shortage of people if you say, “You’ve got to be working for one of our competitors doing exactly the same thing you’re doing now. That’s what we want, and it’s hard to find those people.” Well, it’s probably true, but that’s not a skills gap.

A federal government which consisted primarily of providing a part time legislature for handling treaties, a military for national defense (not national offense like Bush & Obama are fond of), and a court system that handled disputes between the states and ruled if people's Constitutional rights had been violated by state laws would be fairly inexpensive, and could probably be supported by a low excise tax on imports. The states or local governments can and should handle virtually every other aspect of government from roads, social services, etc.