How Things Got Made

"It occurred to me that I had become disconnected from a lot of things that used to fascinate me. I no longer thought about where my food came from, or how my electricity worked, or who fixed my pipes, or who made my clothes. There was no reason to. I had become less interested in how things got made, and more interested in how things got bought...we talk about millions of 'shovel ready' jobs for a society that doesn’t encourage people to pick up a shovel."-Mike Rowe, testimony before the U.S. Committee on Commerce