And then they’ll demand gov $$$$$ to pay for the ‘community’ they helped to destroy.
Maybe. But there’s this odd problem...fed money won’t build a Dollar-General store, Wal-Mart, gas-station or video-rental shop. Fed money only builds baseball fields, basketball courts, community centers and libraries/schools. If you wanted jobs...the fed input of money does absolutely nothing. Even if the feds came with road money and repaved every road in town...it’d likely be out-of-state guys on the paving crew, and you would sitting there with a nice blacktop road through the town, and zero commerce attraction.
In my hometown where I grew up...they found some guy who knew the grant game, and he put in various grant papers with the state and federal guys for a park. It’s a town of 250 people. They were able to get some guarantee of $20,000 via state and federal folks....if the town matched ten-percent of that. They held a fish-fry and car-wash, thus getting the $2,000 necessary. The park is mostly worthless nine months out of the year, but the town has a couple of bar-b-q’s in the summer and make some minor use of the park. I’m not against these stupid community projects if there is some payback to the folks who put the money into the system anyway....but usually, payback is marginal.