If you were POTUS, how would you fix the Rust Belt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have all sorts of ideas, that will work. They are really good ones, but I am not going to share them.

Vote for me though.

Enough people did, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is a solution. I think if you look at the family trees of people trapped in the Rust Belt you'll find 200-plus years of uneducated poor people. The brief period of good income was an anomaly.

Such a stupid post.

To follow up, the PP knows nothing about the Rust Belt. There are plenty of educated people who are doing very well, some prohably way better than you. And anyway, most of the Rust Belt is doing fine without the help of DC psuedo saviors like you who truly don't give a shit but want the moral authority points from loudly pretending they do.

Denial is clearly just a river in Egypt to some.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is a solution. I think if you look at the family trees of people trapped in the Rust Belt you'll find 200-plus years of uneducated poor people. The brief period of good income was an anomaly.

Such a stupid post.

To follow up, the PP knows nothing about the Rust Belt. There are plenty of educated people who are doing very well, some prohably way better than you. And anyway, most of the Rust Belt is doing fine without the help of DC psuedo saviors like you who truly don't give a shit but want the moral authority points from loudly pretending they do.

Oh, sorry, I thought the right wing cover story for why the racists all voted for Teump was that their economic lives in the Rust Belt sucked.

[Anonymous]

Mass deportations to Mexico, where the jobs are going?

[Anonymous]

Has any region so decayed ever "come back"? Capitalism makes it easier to go somewhere new than fix up a hellhole.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is a solution. I think if you look at the family trees of people trapped in the Rust Belt you'll find 200-plus years of uneducated poor people. The brief period of good income was an anomaly.

Such a stupid post.

To follow up, the PP knows nothing about the Rust Belt. There are plenty of educated people who are doing very well, some prohably way better than you. And anyway, most of the Rust Belt is doing fine without the help of DC psuedo saviors like you who truly don't give a shit but want the moral authority points from loudly pretending they do.

Denial is clearly just a river in Egypt to some.

Look up job and population trends, and public school rankings. Outside of some pop because of shale, the middle of the country is hollowed out. All the money is concentrated on the coasts, Texas and Florida. Minnesota is doing decent I guess.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't "fix" it at all. Because the people who live there apparently don't want it to be fixed, since they voted for a billionnaire demagogue who has no ability or intention of "fixing" anything.

Bed made.

[Anonymous]

First thing I would re-brand it by removing the liberal stink of calling part of our country the "rust belt" or "flyover country." After that I would relocate most government agencies to the middle of the country to establish jobs with current federal workers willing to move and train locals for government jobs and the associated jobs that come with large employment centers

Big shippers like Amazon would be stripped of local and state tax incentives that rob localities of much needed tax base to rebuild infrastructure and train locals for jobs

Get rid of teacher unions which cripple schools and expand teacher training programs so that smart people would return to the field and children would again learn math and reading

Provide incentives for people to marry (any one the want wherever they want) to stem the damage to children who do not have a parent in the house

Re institute the draft so that all 18-19 year old men and women would be in the military or do community service fir one year. Yes the Israeli model. Young men especially need the structure and service as a maturing process

Human beings want to be treated as humans

She who dreams the absurd achieves the impossible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First thing I would re-brand it by removing the liberal stink of calling part of our country the "rust belt" or "flyover country." After that I would relocate most government agencies to the middle of the country to establish jobs with current federal workers willing to move and train locals for government jobs and the associated jobs that come with large employment centers

Big shippers like Amazon would be stripped of local and state tax incentives that rob localities of much needed tax base to rebuild infrastructure and train locals for jobs

Get rid of teacher unions which cripple schools and expand teacher training programs so that smart people would return to the field and children would again learn math and reading

Provide incentives for people to marry (any one the want wherever they want) to stem the damage to children who do not have a parent in the house

Re institute the draft so that all 18-19 year old men and women would be in the military or do community service fir one year. Yes the Israeli model. Young men especially need the structure and service as a maturing process

Human beings want to be treated as humans

She who dreams the absurd achieves the impossible

You lost me on evil teacher's union. I guess it's better in your mind if teachers get paid a lousy salary and there's a revolving door of fresh faced grads who moonlight in teaching g for a few years before moving on to law school or grad school so they can pad their resume

[Anonymous]

Nor Rustbelt per se: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3lKx26ve1H8

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is a solution. I think if you look at the family trees of people trapped in the Rust Belt you'll find 200-plus years of uneducated poor people. The brief period of good income was an anomaly.

Such a stupid post.

To follow up, the PP knows nothing about the Rust Belt. There are plenty of educated people who are doing very well, some prohably way better than you. And anyway, most of the Rust Belt is doing fine without the help of DC psuedo saviors like you who truly don't give a shit but want the moral authority points from loudly pretending they do.

Denial is clearly just a river in Egypt to some.

Look up job and population trends, and public school rankings. Outside of some pop because of shale, the middle of the country is hollowed out. All the money is concentrated on the coasts, Texas and Florida. Minnesota is doing decent I guess.

Shale? You truly are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is a solution. I think if you look at the family trees of people trapped in the Rust Belt you'll find 200-plus years of uneducated poor people. The brief period of good income was an anomaly.

Such a stupid post.

To follow up, the PP knows nothing about the Rust Belt. There are plenty of educated people who are doing very well, some prohably way better than you. And anyway, most of the Rust Belt is doing fine without the help of DC psuedo saviors like you who truly don't give a shit but want the moral authority points from loudly pretending they do.

Denial is clearly just a river in Egypt to some.

Look up job and population trends, and public school rankings. Outside of some pop because of shale, the middle of the country is hollowed out. All the money is concentrated on the coasts, Texas and Florida. Minnesota is doing decent I guess.

I can't wait to move back to that "hollowed out" part of the country so l can get away from the hollowed out people living in the DC area who feel the need to disparage everyone who is not just like them. Truly pathetic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is a solution. I think if you look at the family trees of people trapped in the Rust Belt you'll find 200-plus years of uneducated poor people. The brief period of good income was an anomaly.

Such a stupid post.

To follow up, the PP knows nothing about the Rust Belt. There are plenty of educated people who are doing very well, some prohably way better than you. And anyway, most of the Rust Belt is doing fine without the help of DC psuedo saviors like you who truly don't give a shit but want the moral authority points from loudly pretending they do.

Denial is clearly just a river in Egypt to some.

Look up job and population trends, and public school rankings. Outside of some pop because of shale, the middle of the country is hollowed out. All the money is concentrated on the coasts, Texas and Florida. Minnesota is doing decent I guess.

Shale? You truly are an idiot.

Ad hominem attacks make you look like the idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First thing I would re-brand it by removing the liberal stink of calling part of our country the "rust belt" or "flyover country." After that I would relocate most government agencies to the middle of the country to establish jobs with current federal workers willing to move and train locals for government jobs and the associated jobs that come with large employment centers

Big shippers like Amazon would be stripped of local and state tax incentives that rob localities of much needed tax base to rebuild infrastructure and train locals for jobs

Get rid of teacher unions which cripple schools and expand teacher training programs so that smart people would return to the field and children would again learn math and reading

Provide incentives for people to marry (any one the want wherever they want) to stem the damage to children who do not have a parent in the house

Re institute the draft so that all 18-19 year old men and women would be in the military or do community service fir one year. Yes the Israeli model. Young men especially need the structure and service as a maturing process

Human beings want to be treated as humans

She who dreams the absurd achieves the impossible

How does your first paragraph square with the fed hiring freeze and reduction by 25% that Trump wants?

[Anonymous]

Liberal pro-Hilary highly educated white collar working living in the rust belt, after some time all over east coast (and lots of international travel)....this thread is so clueless. The stereotyping is insane. Also, this isn't 'rust belt' versus east coast, it is urban v. rural....take a look at a blue/red map.

And what do I think it will take to fix this problem? We have a problem with wealth accumulation in this country. We need to invest in our working class, our poor and our middle class. The hollowing out isn't of the rust belt, it is off the middle class period. We need to re-invest in what has been abandon.

Sadly, the Republicans are the least likely to do this.