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Once the federal funds to cites and universities get drastically reduced, see what happens to them.
Cities and their residents fill the federal coffers that support small-town America, not the other way around. You want to keep even more of our tax dollars?
Cities and their residents fill he federal coffers that support small-town America, not the other way around. You want to keep even more of our tax dollars?
Pretty much true.
Most small towns are kept alive by Social Security, SSI, SSD, welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid. And meth.
I read a whole book about how Obama was going to try to push people toward the cities or expand the city lines so cities can access suburban money: "Spreading The Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs To Pay For The Cities."
"As for the basics, the president plans to abolish the suburbs in three gradual steps: 1. Force suburban residents into densely packed cities by blocking development in the outskirts of metropolitan areas, and then discourage driving with a blizzard of taxes, fees and regulations. 2. Move the poor out of the cities by imposing low-income housing quotas. 3. Export a “regional tax-base sharing” scheme whereby a portion of the money flows into a common regional pot, “redistributed to urban and a few “less well off outer ring suburbs.”
Cities and their residents fill the federal coffers that support small-town America, not the other way around. You want to keep even more of our tax dollars?
You know all of these sad, economically depressed, former mill/mining towns? There's no reason for them to exist. Once upon a time, Americans moved for economic opportunity. They didn't demand that jobs come to them. If the only reason your town existed or group was the presence of some factory or mine, then in the absence of said factory or mine, your town has no reason to exist. We have let people who feel that they are entitled to an unsustainable, small-town lifestyle dictate the political and economic fate of our nation. They'd rather gamble on someone who promises to reopen the factories then re-train or go to the major population centers where the work is.
Or these towns could be proactive and encourage manufacturing companies to come and build.
Joe Max Higgins: Well, when I look at the land, I see it as product for us to develop.
He bet the farm that in this state with weak labor unions, he could attract industry like a magnet if he turned that land down there into massive industrial ready sites.
Bill Whitaker: If you build it, they will come?
Joe Max Higgins: Yeah. We’re installing the water. We’re installing the sewer. We’re installing the roads. And we’re getting everything ready so when that company comes to locate, they’re eliminating all risk. I mean, that lot’s there ready to stick a shovel in and build.
Higgins had to convince county supervisors to spend almost $12 million on that first site where Steel Dynamics now sits. He’s since built up three other so called megasites and envisions more. It wasn’t an easy sell at first. He told us people in the Golden Triangle were paralyzed by the decline and poverty. He saw an area rich in assets: an airport, railroads, waterways that ran north to the Great Lakes and south to the Gulf Coast, and a quality engineering program at Mississippi State.
I live in a small, somewhat isolated city of about 30,000 with a major university. I wouldn't call that "unsustainable".
That's the problem in this thread, your town is "small" to someone from, say, Philadelphia but large to someone who lives in a town of 2000, which is big to someone in a town of 500.
Plus, many posters are using close in suburbs as towns. Many have never seen a true small town and think one with a quarter million people is unimaginably tiny.
In defense of gladhands who started this, he lives in Pittsburgh which is somewhat surrounded by dying towns which never recovered from the exodus of industry 35 years ago.
Most small towns are kept alive by Social Security, SSI, SSD, welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid. And meth.
And what keeps Compton alive, Crips?
Uploaded year 2014. Compton is still a rough town with these Crip bangers brandishing guns, flashing money, and displaying some of the crack cocaine they're selling. (Not meth--though for all I know the Crips of Compton are selling meth too).
A good video for the Democrat and Republican locked away in their kind and gentle neighborhood who has it "twisted" about "drug dealers" (as opposed to drug addicts whom they think are the violent ones, robbing, and murdering people) and the liberal, progressive, anti-Christian City of Compton, California. Just karma if you (plural) move you, your wife, and kids into their hood.
You see no such apocalyptic nightmare in the big cities of Europe like Amsterdam. However, Black-American Democrats with their LA Crip companions have spread the Crips and Bloods into the Neatherlands among the local blacks there.
I understand joining the Crips and Gangster Disciples in the United States. Nothing more All American than that. Competitive and capitalistic. I thought of joining the Gangster Disciples when I was in my 30's for chance at upward mobility in depressing black section of a Midwestern city. I get it. And I was offered to join them in my 20's when I was fresh out the Marine Corps.
I'm glad I did not join them in my 30's though as my values have shifted back towards Christ and Mother Christianity. I'm more Russian in my heart than I am godless, Satanic American. I'm more Godly African in my heart too. Not that I am not a sinner. Mea Culpa. But I'd rather kill the strong than prey on the weak.
Some of those Crips in the video are in wheelchair, or missing a leg, or show the marking of multiple separate shootings they have been struck by.
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