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Old 01-29-2017, 08:55 PM
 
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You all are delusional if you think Trump is zeroing in on helping Detroit. HUUUGE messes so far in just the short time he is in office, with the world opinion against us on immigration and trade. Detroit will continue to improve in a way that another depressed city that Trump had a hand in destroying, Atlantic City, could not under his control. Just have faith in the local govt., business leaders, and diversification and Detroit will continue on the road to recovery.
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Old 01-30-2017, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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Well, I mean, ideally that's when people start moving here. North Dakota grew from 670,000 to 760,000 people from 2010 to 2015, and it has wayyyy less to offer than Detroit. Significantly worse weather too. In fact, if I had to place my finger on the least desirable place to live in America, it would probably be Minot or Williston, North Dakota, (...or maybe Provo, Utah) but when those places were spilling over with available, well-paying work, people couldn't move there fast enough, just so they could freeze half-way to death while doing manual labor and smelling like hydrocarbons all day. I think we underestimate the human passion for $$
Problem is the shortage of skilled construction workers is nationwide. They are not going to come streaming in form elsewhere when there is plenty of demand for them right where they are. A lot of them will be down in Texas, Aridzona and California building a fence wall - especially if they get paid anything near $85/hour.

North Dakota was different because there were no jobs elsewhere. Oil prices were soaring and they had just discovered how to access a huge amount of oil there. The oil was hugely valuable, so they could afford to pay whatever it took to get that oil to market.

This is a different situation. there is demand for construction workers everywhere. There is no giant upside to getting the product out as quickly as possible and no ability to pay whatever it takes (at least not for most projects). The construction work we are talking about will not generate huge sums of money right away. Some, like the bridge will break even at best. In any event paying substnatially more than market will tick off the unions in other places because their workers would flood to the higher paying places and the other union locals woudl lose all their money and power.
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Old 01-30-2017, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit
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Whoa, whoa, hold up. $85 an hour?

They probably need a lot of geotechnical work for that wall... Well Michigan, it has been nice, but even my morals and ethics have a price and $85 an hour exceeds this price. See you all later! Gonna go Murica Gr8 make agin, derp.

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Old 02-03-2017, 07:19 AM
 
Location: Nashville, TN -
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You all are delusional if you think Trump is zeroing in on helping Detroit. HUUUGE messes so far in just the short time he is in office, with the world opinion against us on immigration and trade. Detroit will continue to improve in a way that another depressed city that Trump had a hand in destroying, Atlantic City, could not under his control. Just have faith in the local govt., business leaders, and diversification and Detroit will continue on the road to recovery.
Exactly. Don the Con and his fellow billionaire buddies couldn't care less about flyover country and staunchly blue collar towns like Detroit. I can't believe that anyone believes otherwise.
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Old 02-03-2017, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Detroit
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My last post got deleted so let me say this in a better way. Nobody expects trump to do a damn thing for Detroit or any city for that matter. But don't write off "flyover country" because flyover country ironically has more major cities and major airports than both coast. And flyover country is what won Donald Trump the election in the first place. Were just trying to make a "best case scenario" situation here. In reality, the best case scenario at this point is our economy doesn't crash and we don't get into another war or even worse lose some of our allies. I was watching CNN yesterday and what baffles my mind is Trump voters actually think he is doing a great job, at least the people they were interviewing.
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Old 02-03-2017, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Cyan Planet
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Flyover country? Blue collar town? Are you dense? Did you confuse Detroit with Nashville?
Since when was Nashville considered "flyover country?" I thought that was a term used to refer to much of the suburban/rural Midwest? Have I missed something?
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Old 02-03-2017, 12:44 PM
 
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Since when was Nashville considered "flyover country?" I thought that was a term used to refer to much of the suburban/rural Midwest? Have I missed something?
Flyover country is generally loosely applied to anything between the east and west coasts. I used to live in Alabama and outsiders referred to that as flyover country more than once. So I think Nashville qualifies as well. That said, I don't understand what Nashville had to do with the original discussion of Detroit
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Old 02-03-2017, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Nashville, TN -
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Flyover country? Blue collar town? Are you dense? Did you confuse Detroit with Nashville?
I lived in Detroit for 14 years, new poster, after moving there from my hometown of Toronto, ON, so I do have an idea of what Metro Detroit is like. Last time I checked, Detroit is still part of the struggling Rust Belt, which is part of what TRUMP CONSIDERS insignificant flyover country.

And Nashville's economy is more diverse than Detroit's.

Are you capable of writing a retort without resorting to being rude, new poster? Can't come up with anything else? if you choose to participate in an online forum, you might want to learn how to hear opinions you don't agree with but still manage to continue communicating -- like an adult.

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Old 02-03-2017, 01:13 PM
 
Location: Nashville, TN -
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Flyover country is generally loosely applied to anything between the east and west coasts. I used to live in Alabama and outsiders referred to that as flyover country more than once. So I think Nashville qualifies as well. That said, I don't understand what Nashville had to do with the original discussion of Detroit
Correct. Thought that was fairly common knowledge. Can't believe what people will get all riled up about.

Sure, Nashville probably qualifies as "flyover country," especially to someone like Trump. Doesn't offend me, because I'm realistic. It is what it is. Trump doesn't really care about anything outside of Manhattan or another bastion of the 1%, though he's good at pretending he does.
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Old 02-03-2017, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Nashville, TN -
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My last post got deleted so let me say this in a better way. Nobody expects trump to do a damn thing for Detroit or any city for that matter. But don't write off "flyover country" because flyover country ironically has more major cities and major airports than both coast. And flyover country is what won Donald Trump the election in the first place. Were just trying to make a "best case scenario" situation here. In reality, the best case scenario at this point is our economy doesn't crash and we don't get into another war or even worse lose some of our allies. I was watching CNN yesterday and what baffles my mind is Trump voters actually think he is doing a great job, at least the people they were interviewing.
Good post. And I'm not writing off "flyover country." But Trump will.
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