A few months ago, Mike Rowe stumbled upon a 2011 video of himself speaking in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee during the Obama administration about the mindset of government toward skilled trades. His argument was that skilled trades were the key to saving our economy, not those jobs that require a four-year degree.

His argument fell on deaf ears. …

Rowe realized after three futile attempts of trying to figure out who should do it that no one was ever going to launch that campaign. “No concerned citizen group, no NGOs, certainly no group of corporations — all who had a hand in the anti-littering campaigns of the 70’s — were going to step up, despite their efforts working in every measurable way,” Rowe explained.

So, he’s doing it himself.