Well, thank the morons who...
1) Outsourced manufacturing to fracking Communist China
2) Promoted college (in useless degrees) and professors with tenue (teaching useless programs) instead of learning useful skills in trade schools
3) UniParty hacks and corporatists who enable illegal immigration as cheap labor and telling the poor it is better to stay on government dole than work, further disincentivizing work and the desire to learn skills
4) K-12 educators who threw merit and common sense education in the basics aside for cultural Marxist dreck that keeps spewing out dumber and more ignorant kids year after year