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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will you also give millions to improve schools? Incentivize local people to start small businesses and help create jobs?  What is your plan for the displaced people? [/quote]

I want to displace the local population (before anyone comes at me the locale is 80%+ white). [/quote]

In a lot of these Rust Belt towns, they desperately need displacement in the form of young people moving in to work and have kids and revitalize. In my DH's home town, the average age of homeowners there must be in their 70s. They are going to have to close down local schools and consolidate because of under enrollment, and people are freaking out about it. But they've already laid off a bunch of teachers and they can't maintain the facilities because they don't have the money.

To some extent I do blame the people who live there because for 40 years every time anyone has tried to do something to change the town or improve it, a huge contingent of the old timers get mad and refuse. There was a massive opposition a few years back to putting in a traffic light in the downtown area. And then these people wonder why their kids all move far away (they couldn't stay if they wanted to) and why there are no good jobs in town and everything seems so depressing.

Cities and towns are like living things. You're either growing or you're dying. People who get nostalgic and want them to stay the same forever are not doing themselves any favor. Change is inevitable.[/quote]

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