The problem is you can't just take out one man, especially when he is so iconic. You can shut him and his boss down for compliance for something..OSHA, zoning, taxes, certifications. Then you are more or less obliged, or perhaps you smell blood in the water, to go after more and more struggling businesses, in a time where we might need every hand on deck that we can keep.

Now is not the time to destroy people, and yes, that is what many people are instinctively doing. One thing I think we can do is let the union and the certifying board know that we are looking at fairness in this, and it is already happening of course. Read the news. He can probably make some sort of hay out of this, but there are a lot of people in his situation, right in the middle of the country, with ethnic-sounding names and strong backs. People who used to be called the salt of the earth and the backbone of America. And instead of supporting them we are looking for their old traffic tickets.

One thing that needs to be done is a nationwide basic certification for many trades and professions. It keeps skills from being able to travel to where there is a need, like Katrina perhaps. Then states could add specific endorsements for their own unique situations, like subzero welding or whatever. Needed for teaching, nursing, doctors, lawyers, all sorts of building trades. Basic universal plus state addons. mg