Rural America is the new "inner city"

Fogdog

Fogdog

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ttystikk said:
I agree completely. Dubbya handed Mr Obama an economic crash that could easily have become another depression.

He did not/was not able to implement the basic reforms necessary to keep it from happening again.

And now with the Chump in office, it's going to happen again.

...only worse this time.
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Rural communities are mostly republican, which explains why Obama ignored them to a degree. "Don't vote for me? Don't expect much." Then Trump comes into office with trumpets blaring about this great again stuff. I actually do hope he does the rural areas better than Obama. My magic 8 ball says "signs say doubtful".

It is time to rethink how to reverse the decline in rural areas. I don't think it has to be done by shrinking urban economies. But it is going to take some investment in education, infrastructure and tax laws.

For example. How feasible are those mega farms without subsidies? Make them less profitable if over a certain size and maybe we'll have more farmers, fewer trusts managing the land.
 
UncleBuck

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racerboy71 said:
the thing is, if you live there, more than likely, you have one of those jobs paying $7,50 / hour, working x amount of weeks at the local chicken ranch, just exactly how do you plan on moving when you already can't afford the rent on your home, a car payment, insurance, and don't forget food?
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it's so sad. so much of america is advanced and modern, like the rest of the industrialized world.

the only reason our upward mobility lacks behind all other developed nations is because of our rural, trump loving pockets.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/why-is-the-american-dream-dead-in-the-south/283313/

Upward mobility has stayed the same the past 50 years despite skyrocketing inequality. But it's lower in the South (and Ohio) than anywhere else in the U.S.—or the rest of the developed world.

Kids born into the bottom 20 percent of households, for example, have a 12.9 percent chance of reaching the top 20 percent if they live in San Jose. That's about as high as it is in the highest mobility countries. But kids born in Charlotte only have a 4.4 percent chance of moving from the bottom to the top 20 percent. That's worse than any developed country we have numbers for.
 
dandyrandy

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racerboy71 said:
the thing is, if you live there, more than likely, you have one of those jobs paying $7,50 / hour, working x amount of hours at the local chicken ranch.. just exactly how do you plan on moving when you already can't afford the rent on your home, a car payment, insurance, and don't forget food?
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Join the military. I did.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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racerboy71 said:
the thing is, if you live there, more than likely, you have one of those jobs paying $7,50 / hour, working x amount of hours at the local chicken ranch.. just exactly how do you plan on moving when you already can't afford the rent on your home, a car payment, insurance, and don't forget food?
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I've done it. A couple tanks of gas worth of gas money, some food and GTFO.
 
Colanoscopy

Colanoscopy

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UncleBuck said:
white people are procreating the least of any race, have been for decades. which is a win for us all.

thanks for being too stupid to figure out how to fuck, tbone.
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Your picture shows you.. At least I'm guessing your the black guy from your pic. Rubbing up against a man...... You're doing procreation wrong too pal. Need a bird for that. But if that's the kinda logic you will spread in your seed. Then I guess you should dump them on a next man's shit pile.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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UncleBuck said:
it's so sad. so much of america is advanced and modern, like the rest of the industrialized world.

the only reason our upward mobility lacks behind all other developed nations is because of our rural, trump loving pockets.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/why-is-the-american-dream-dead-in-the-south/283313/

Upward mobility has stayed the same the past 50 years despite skyrocketing inequality. But it's lower in the South (and Ohio) than anywhere else in the U.S.—or the rest of the developed world.

Kids born into the bottom 20 percent of households, for example, have a 12.9 percent chance of reaching the top 20 percent if they live in San Jose. That's about as high as it is in the highest mobility countries. But kids born in Charlotte only have a 4.4 percent chance of moving from the bottom to the top 20 percent. That's worse than any developed country we have numbers for.
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What's the Democratic Party's plan to help rural areas? Seems to me that addressing such disparities would be an easy way to pick up EC votes for the next presidential campaign, not to mention Senate and House seats.
 
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ttystikk

ttystikk

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dagwood45431 said:
The 2016 Democratic platform did include plans for investing in rural America. The people did not listen and once again voted against their own self-interests.
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I was listening for them and didn't hear them, so I'm thinking they were at the least not well disseminated.

One man I am hearing about making headway on rural areas is Bernie Sanders, though I will admit I've been following his post election tour closely.
 
dagwood45431

dagwood45431

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ttystikk said:
I was listening for them and didn't hear them, so I'm thinking they were at the least not well disseminated.

One man I am hearing about making headway on rural areas is Bernie Sanders, though I will admit I've been following his post election tour closely.
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Clinton mentioned it fairly regularly. The signal to noise ratio of this past election was too low for that kind of serious talk to get any attention. Between bogus "scandals" like But Benghazi! ™ and all of Trump's douchebaggery and treachery it all got drowned out.
 
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