Posted on 06/27/2017 2:45:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance recalled his upbringing in Middletown, Ohio, explaining the psyche of communities neglected by the “Obama economy” as jobs were lost to the effects of globalization. The election of Donald Trump shed light on these communities of disenfranchised voters of Middle America.
As globalization moved jobs overseas, industrial manufacturing communities in the U.S. fell on hard times. Blue-collar factory jobs in places like Macomb County, Michigan; Youngstown, Ohio; and South Bend, Indiana gave way to drug use, joblessness and despair.
We are now faced with the question of how to help these communities going forward.
The United States should cast its glance across the Mediterranean and follow Israel’s lead. Israel’s Southern Negev region managed to make the desert bloom and is now successfully transforming a nearly uninhabitable desert into a desirable community of students, young families and innovation, all while supporting the region’s blue-collar jobs. It would behoove America’s rural cities to do the same....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
What America Can Learn From Israel’s Peripheral Communities ?
That all rural and suburban citizens should be allowed to carry sub machine guns
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