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.

But apparently you are a success, PP.

So maybe stupid isn't forever?

I'm sure Trump will fix it so there's no point to this conversation (cough). He will get America back on track and make it great again. They wanted him, they got him, and I'll let him worry about fixing it.

Anonymous wrote:Outside of Minnesota, flyover country is a disaster. Lost their manufacturing base, the schools are terrible, heroin. How would you fix this? Would you even consider incentivizing families to leave?

You are a simpleton. The manufacturing base left decades ago, and many Rust Belt economies outside of Minnesota have adapted pretty well. No, they don't have the recession proof government paper pushing boondoggle to fall back on like the DC area, but they have adapted and grown. Ands news flash, there are lots of great schools in many places there and heroin is just as likely to be in your backyard as it is to be in the Rust Belt. It is everywhere. Why don't you fix your own lack of knowledge about the country you live in before you worry about fixing the Rust Belt?

The most successful model I have seen in rust belt cities is to make the city center attractive for white collar industries, particularly IT and IS. If you have a decent city center, the low cost of living becomes an advantage in building companies up. This brings more money into the local economy and creates jobs in supporting industries.

But that does not help the blue collar worker to get the job they want to have. They need to find new skills to make a good living. It happened to blacksmiths, it happened to farmers, and it needs to happen for manufacturing. It will affect every major occupation over time. No industry is invulnerable to obsolescence.

A college degree related to a decent profession is pretty much a necessity now, give or take the occasional dropout who makes it big. So we need to make college affordable for them. And we are probably talking about the kids coming up, not the 45 year old who lost his career when the paper plant shut down.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Outside of Minnesota, flyover country is a disaster. Lost their manufacturing base, the schools are terrible, heroin. How would you fix this? Would you even consider incentivizing families to leave?

Nothing about your post warrants anything more than an ignore.

Donald, is this you? I guess it's better to ask here than another white supremacist.

(I kid, OP. I have no idea. But it clearly involves education, creativity, and it would have to be huge).

I have big plans. Great plans. We're going to do yuge things there. So big. My plans will change things bigly. America will be great again. But, I'm just not going to tell you what they are.

Hillary had some good plans, to turn exhausted coal mines into geothermal plants, with paid training. It requires an investment of tax dollars, though.

Education, revitalize historic areas, infrastructure, build up anchor institutions (colleges, hospital campuses), tourism through federal parks and lands.

How do we fix stupid? And by stupid, I mean folks who paint with a broad brush.

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.

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.

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.

Outside of Minnesota, flyover country is a disaster. Lost their manufacturing base, the schools are terrible, heroin. How would you fix this? Would you even consider incentivizing families to leave?