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So our solution to the problems of the rust belt are to let them write depressing songs?
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The solution is a timemachine. No other industry is going to be anywhere as cool as those big ass steel mills.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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That helps out the owners of the steel mills.Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Whatchu talkin' about, Willis?
Illegals would actually have helped Youngstown and much of the rest of the Rust Belt; a cheaper labor pool might have allowed Big Steel to keep competing in a global market.
And before getting illegals in, better to just crack the unions.Comment
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All of those songs were written 20 or 30 years ago. Everybody's moved to Florida in the meantime and is kicking back to Jimmy Buffett.Originally posted by Oerdin
So our solution to the problems of the rust belt are to let them write depressing songs?
Nothing left now other than various versions of the wrecking ball.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Youngstown was released in '95. This was just before the new economy rage though, and it hadn't dawned to people yet Germany and Japan had become problem childs.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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What, no!Originally posted by TCO
stop the illegals. It's supply and demand. Workers here are hurt by illegals (wages depressed with more competition). Employers are helped (wages depressed).
There was a raid on illegals here in Houston a week ago.
The target corp: A donut maker. I think 20 people were arrested on immigration charges.
Fantastic work ICE. I can drive by nearly any* overpass in the city and pick up a slew of illegals to do my lawnwork, but you choose to raid a donut shop? F you.
*exaggerationComment
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OK, so that one was written 15 years ago about events happening 30 years ago.Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
Youngstown was released in '95.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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This weekend, I drove down the Ohio River near Wheeling and was surprised to see most of the mills open.
Don't know how much business they are doing or how well they're paying nowadays, though. I guess the dollar is undervalued, if they can make a business of it.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Re: How to deal with decline in the rust belt?
Revolution!Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I thought only cops would be mad over a donut shop being raided.Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Fantastic work ICE. I can drive by nearly any* overpass in the city and pick up a slew of illegals to do my lawnwork, but you choose to raid a donut shop? F you.
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It seems Michigan has been hit hard by this recession. Unemployment is up to 10% state wide and due to falling orders in the auto business one town has seen unemployment go from 3% to 15%. It's bad in the rust belt right now.
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