Love The Sign On The Left
Posted on 07/23/2017 5:58:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jamestown, Tennessee, is one of the poorest towns with a majority-white population in the US. The area overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump and locals believe new jobs will now come - but will that be enough to turn around decades of economic distress?
Nine years after his plumbing company collapsed at the height of the credit crunch, Clint Barta is feeling confident enough to start again.
"It's only been days, so it's a bit slow," says Barta who has been in the business for 33 years. "But I'm meeting with a builder tomorrow."
The plumber had to lay off 75 employees back in 2008 and commuted daily for an out-of-town job to keep his family afloat.
"For years, we saw nothing in this town," he says. "But now we live in 'Trump times' and it's all starting to change".
Barta lives in Jamestown, a tiny town of 1,900 people nestled in the fertile hills of north Tennessee. An area "with 230 churches and just one pub", as some locals describe it.
It's a two-hour drive from here to the nearest city, and the busy streets and shining high-rises of the state capital Nashville feel like a world away....
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Love The Sign On The Left
That article hurts my heart. How did this country’s leaders allow that to happen. I hope there will be enough workers for whatever plant is coming. For every 100 people employed there are so many more created. Suppliers, builders, grocery stores, shops of all kinds.
I just pray President Trump is able to bring jobs back to small town America. These are good people
Obama was adding 100,000 pages of government regulations every year. Trump saved America from falling gin to the abyss.
Trump unleashes $4 trillion in stock market gains since election
What they need is someone to produce a documentary on the ravages to small town America. Show the devastation and the hopelessness. Remind New Yorkers that these are the people who took up collections to help after 9-11
I do know how much he is doing, I also know he is fighting these battles alone. The entire republican congress should be fighting at his side, but they are not.
These are OUR people, they are an integral part of us. We have a congress that sends money everywhere but here at home. We have let NAFTA destroy huge swaths of this country. How could we allow that to happen to our own?
After 5 years of job search and working temp, I finally found a permanent job that pays decent. I’m feeling better lately. I’ll work for as long as I have a choice.
I agree. Free traders have ruined small town America. Rural America along with agriculture, used to be salted with light industry like appliances, packaging, textiles, etc. That all moved to the south, then it moved to Mexico, and who knows where else by now.
regulations are one shoe ... tariffs are another.
you cannot compete against slave wages in a country where the people live on less than $1/hr
we’ve literally lost millions of jobs and trillions of dollars to offshoring and globalism
Couldn’t have said it better.
Bless you!
The other shoe will drop. For now the stock market rises every day.
Have faith . As long as Trump is president America will rise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJINhTl-jk0
Thank you and blessings to you too! :-)
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