Small Town Rural America Has Been Screwed

[colfax_m]

I know the answer....You Lefties should invite 20-40 million illiterate thirdworlders to flood our employment, education, healthcare and welfare systems....that’ll make everything better...ain’t that right @colfax_m ?

When an illiterate third worlder can take your job, maybe the reason you are struggling economically is that you have little of value to offer to the economy.

 

[pknopp]

I know the answer....You Lefties should invite 20-40 million illiterate thirdworlders to flood our employment, education, healthcare and welfare systems....that’ll make everything better...ain’t that right @colfax_m ?

When an illiterate third worlder can take your job, maybe the reason you are struggling economically is that you have little of value to offer to the economy.

People should simply be happy living 4 families to a house?

 

[DukeU]

It's the greedy business that are inviting them but you know that.

It's the Democrats who are inviting them.

 

[pknopp]

It's the greedy business that are inviting them but you know that.

It's the Democrats who are inviting them.

I find it sad that there are so many people like yourself that are only able to see the world in terms of red or blue.

 

[DukeU]

People do not have a lot of choices there.

U.S. Property Taxes Jump Most in Four Years With Sun Belt Catching Up

Global Food Costs Keep Climbing in Threat to Consumer Wallets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ich-are-plummeting-rents-poor-are-rising-why/

Maybe *biden should raise taxes and send out more stimulus?!?

 

[DukeU]

I find it sad that there are so many people like yourself that are only able to see the world in terms of red or blue.

Sad is wanting to steal other people's money.

 

[colfax_m]

People should simply be happy living 4 families to a house?

If we want a capitalist society, they’re supposed to be miserable with that quality of life and that misery is supposed to make them acquire more valuable skills.

My point is that people need to stop worshiping capitalism as a religion but holy shit we’ve been so indoctrinated that it’s really hard to get anyone to admit it’s failings.

 

[skews13]

I've been on a road trip that I've wanted to do for a very long time.

I drove east to Illinois then am driving southwest to the Pacific Ocean on what's left of Route 66.

That road, or what's left of it, goes through small town rural America.

I've gone through ghost town after ghost town. The towns that aren't abandoned are so deeply depressed it's painful and shameful to see.

Small town rural America has been totally screwed and abandoned by both our government and our citizens.

I understand now why so many republicans are so angry. I don't understand why they can't see why they have been screwed so badly and by whom.

Most of the states and all of the towns are controlled by republicans. People keep voting for them because of social issues like gay marriage and because they don't make much money and wrongly seem to believe that tax cuts are the answer to their financial problems.

Tax cuts have only totally screwed small town rural America. Their roads are so bad. I mean so bad that there were times the rough road and wind has my car literally bouncing down the road. When was the last time their roads were paved? The poverty is just terrible.

This is the result of keeping wages low, no regulation on business and trillions in tax cuts for the rich and big business.

Capitalism is making it worse because there's no money to be made in those areas so they are abandoned by business which results in more depressed economic conditions.

Raising wages will help these people a lot. Not just by increasing their own pay but by increased business from others being paid more. No little tax cut that is temporary will be a solution to such poverty. Higher wages will.

Better education will help a lot. So people don't have to take low wage jobs that require public assistance to be able to survive.

Small town rural America needs to stop electing politicians who don't give a damn about them and won't invest in the people and the areas they live in.

I was in one place that the water coming out of the faucet was a light brown and cloudy. I didn't wash my hands, I used hand sanitizer instead.

I have gone through countless towns that are totally abandoned. I've gone through farming areas that there aren't houses on the land. Just farming. People don't live in those areas anymore so the towns are turning into ghost towns.

The air in Oklahoma and Texas was so polluted it has caused a sinus infection. And people live in those areas. I can only imagine the health problems of the people in those areas but they don't have any hospital or medical facilities to go to. They have to travel hundreds of miles to get medical help.

Younger people who weren't alive before Reagan think this is normal.

It's not.

America wasn't like this before the conservatives convinced Americans that taxes, regulations, worker protections, a livable wage and investing in our nation was a horrible thing.

I totally understand now why so many in small town rural America voted for trump. He was the first republican who actually vocalized the problems the Republican Party was creating.

Only he either went about fixing the problem wrong or just didn't do anything. Which is what he mostly did. Nothing. In fact, things got worse for small town rural America.

I don't know what the solution is to help these people see that voting for republicans got them in this mess and won't get them out of it.

But I finally saw for myself the reasons why republicans voted for trump.

There’s nothing you can do for them. It’s best that they are left alone to die off and turn into waste lands. It’s the natural evolution of these places, as technology leaves them in the dust. It’s why their kids move away from them as fast as they become old enough to. look at the large metropolitan areas on the coasts that have large numbers of homeless young people. Guess where they come from? Being homeless in one of these cities, is a better life in their eyes, than one of those flyover waste towns. No business is going to settle in an area with no real infrastructure, or viable employee base. The only reason most of these places exist is because of the road that goes through them. It’s the agrarian part of America where the great land grab, that resulted in white settlers moving west, killing the Indians with the help of the US Cavalry after the Civil War, then turning the land down to a farm or ranch. Only to be later sold to an oil company, which left town as soon as the well went dry.

The American dream.

 

[pknopp]

People do not have a lot of choices there.

U.S. Property Taxes Jump Most in Four Years With Sun Belt Catching Up

Global Food Costs Keep Climbing in Threat to Consumer Wallets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ich-are-plummeting-rents-poor-are-rising-why/

Maybe *biden should raise taxes and send out more stimulus?!?

We are going to get stuck paying everyone a guaranteed wage.

 

[pknopp]

I find it sad that there are so many people like yourself that are only able to see the world in terms of red or blue.

Sad is wanting to steal other people's money.

Totally worthless reply.

 

[pknopp]

People should simply be happy living 4 families to a house?

If we want a capitalist society, they’re supposed to be miserable with that quality of life and that misery is supposed to make them acquire more valuable skills.

My point is that people need to stop worshiping capitalism as a religion but holy shit we’ve been so indoctrinated that it’s really hard to get anyone to admit it’s failings.

They worship something that doesn't even exist.

 

[DukeU]

We are going to get stuck paying everyone a guaranteed wage.

With the thinking ( or lack thereof) in this country today, nothing will surprise me.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

People should simply be happy living 4 families to a house?

If we want a capitalist society, they’re supposed to be miserable with that quality of life and that misery is supposed to make them acquire more valuable skills.

My point is that people need to stop worshiping capitalism as a religion but holy shit we’ve been so indoctrinated that it’s really hard to get anyone to admit it’s failings.

Capitalism doesn't have failings. People who are dishonest, greedy, corrupt are the ones who have failed.

 

[pknopp]

People should simply be happy living 4 families to a house?

If we want a capitalist society, they’re supposed to be miserable with that quality of life and that misery is supposed to make them acquire more valuable skills.

My point is that people need to stop worshiping capitalism as a religion but holy shit we’ve been so indoctrinated that it’s really hard to get anyone to admit it’s failings.

Capitalism doesn't have failings. People who are dishonest, greedy, corrupt are the ones who have failed.

If it doesn't have failings someone would actually be practicing it.

 

[DukeU]

Totally worthless reply.

How so? you do agree with raising taxes right? You know, take some more from the "rich".

Legal like though.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

People should simply be happy living 4 families to a house?

If we want a capitalist society, they’re supposed to be miserable with that quality of life and that misery is supposed to make them acquire more valuable skills.

My point is that people need to stop worshiping capitalism as a religion but holy shit we’ve been so indoctrinated that it’s really hard to get anyone to admit it’s failings.

Capitalism doesn't have failings. People who are dishonest, greedy, corrupt are the ones who have failed.

If it doesn't have failings someone would actually be practicing it.

Hundreds of thousands of small businesses actually do. Most corporations don't.

 

[colfax_m]

Capitalism doesn't have failings. People who are dishonest, greedy, corrupt are the ones who have failed.

If you’re not greedy, you’re not doing capitalism right.

It’s kinda the whole point.

 

[DukeU]

Capitalism doesn't have failings. People who are dishonest, greedy, corrupt are the ones who have failed.

You have just described every single person on earth.

 

[pknopp]

Totally worthless reply.

How so? you do agree with raising taxes right? You know, take some more from the "rich".

Legal like though.

We shouldn't pay our debt? You believe in a magic money fairy?

 

[pknopp]

People should simply be happy living 4 families to a house?

If we want a capitalist society, they’re supposed to be miserable with that quality of life and that misery is supposed to make them acquire more valuable skills.

My point is that people need to stop worshiping capitalism as a religion but holy shit we’ve been so indoctrinated that it’s really hard to get anyone to admit it’s failings.

Capitalism doesn't have failings. People who are dishonest, greedy, corrupt are the ones who have failed.

If it doesn't have failings someone would actually be practicing it.

Hundreds of thousands of small businesses actually do. Most corporations don't.

No they don't really either. Thousands of small businesses took the PPP "loans", which were not loans. Where in Capitalism do we find the government paying a businesses wages?