Posted on 01/23/2017 11:45:35 AM PST by Enlightened1
That was exactly the way it was when Henry Ford built his first plant. Well except maybe for the work ethic.
You know there are a lot of people, blacks who live in the city as an example, that live and work in the city at dead end jobs and would love to have a job that paid decently and had some benefits. Not everyone in the ghetto is a drug addict, pimp, a prostitute or a drug dealer.
Yo are a racist anti-American bigot.
Americans that support Trump need to start calling and emailing their senators and reps to urge their support of this administrations policies. Over and over and over till they get the message.
you left out Free Trader you isolationist economic trogdelyte
Shut up you a$$hole.
No, not all inner city residents are criminals, and inside every human is a desire to be productive in their lives. But the culture in which they live you find every reason NOT to be that productive person. In Henry Ford’s day, they had an intact family unit with positive role models who instilled a desire for betterment in their children. We don’t have nearly enough of that today, because the progressive welfare state has bred them to be dependent and to covet their status as victims.
That is the culture that needs to change.
So they should be offered productive work. If they can’t do that then so be it. For the last 30+ all of America has been abandoned to the globalists so you can’t really blame them when their rice bowl is taken away from them. Not just the inner city, rural America is a ghost town also..
Yes it will be a challenge. The reason I made that comment is that I just visited the Henry Ford museum. Ford had to set up classes to teach english to immigrant. He had to teach them how to tell time. How to do simple math. Give them basic lessons in being American. In other words he had to shape and mold them into the workers he needed them to be. There were those who told him he was nuts..that he wouldn't be successful. But there was no shortage of people willing to learn because of the relatively high wages he was ready and willing to pay. In the inner city what are parents or parent going to want their kids to do...apply to the local factory paying 20 bucks an hour or die on the streets? You can be parents are going to push their kids to work in that factory down the road.
“What’s he going to do, wave a Magic Wand?” - Barack Obama<<<<<
Yes! It’s the same one YOU used and is commonly known as a PEN.
And, he’s got congress working on what it takes to make it permanent. It’s commonly known as leadership and is a ‘magic wand’ you’d know nothing about.
That is true. But really, it's everywhere. We all know about the inner cities. Some of us know about the small towns that if not dead, they are dying. In central Indiana, there are many of them. Most of them were small towns that depended on one or two piecework factories that provided the whole existence for the town. When the factories closed, the town died. There are still people there, but they are mostly elderly on social security, or young single mothers on welfare, or meth heads.
It is also in the small cities. If you go up I-69 from Indianapolis, you run past a whole string of them: Anderson, Muncie, Gas City, Marion, Huntington.... The plants closed, the cities are dying. I try not to have a "cargo cult" mentality like many of the residents hanging on there. The RCA plant is not reopening in Marion. The glass factories are reopening in Gas City. But some sort of productive work can.
The jobs are essential to a revival, but we can't forget that we need a cultural and social revolution, or restoration, to really make it work.
We were at Henry Ford in September. It’s a fascinating place. We also did the tour of the River Rouge Assembly plant; my son wanted to see where his new F150 came from. I really enjoyed the plant tour, but when I stepped back and took an overall look at the structure of the plant, I came away thinking it looked just like a Borg ship from Star Trek.
Why not change the way they are taxed? Start taxing gross receipts at a level that would bring in the same amount as taxing net profits. In this computer age, it shouldn't be that hard to calculate.
Why? Taxing gross receipts means no more tax deductions for country clubs, "meetings" in exotic places during the winter, posh restaurants, and other pricey perks**. All these are deducted under the current system. Mind you, they can still spend money on those things, it's just that the taxpayer wouldn't be subsidizing them.
The companies end up being leaner, even tough many/most of the perks disappear. After a couple of years, the tax reduction can be investigated.
** I read where one guy owned a pedigreed horse farm and was being interviewed by a reporter. He offered a pricey cigar to the reporter, who marveled at the brand and asked how the "rancher" could afford it. The guy said to look at the cigar band, which had his farm name on it. "I write it off as advertising."
That will work only if the EBT culture and the resistance to education as "acting white" can be changed.
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