Posted on 09/13/2017 12:16:47 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
American carnage is getting harder to find.
In his swearing-in speech on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump lamented the rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. He painted a dark image of the American heartland in tatters, and declared, This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
The nation apparently listened, because the heartland Trump described as moribund just eight months ago is showing definitive signs of life. In the latest annual list of the 50 best cities for jobs by employment site Glassdoor, 12 of the top 25 are in the Midwest, eight are in the South and only a handful are on the coasts. Trump, of course, carried much of the Midwest and South during last years presidential election, with his appeal to the forgotten men and women of America. His opponent Hillary Clinton carried most of the East and West Coasts, where out-of-touch elitists supposedly live.
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I understand that, but you also pay some NY income tax as well as a city income tax. Friends that ride the rails into NYC from NJ say the cars aren’t as crowded as they were before the Greater Depression. Even on 9/11 lives were saved by the vacancy rates in the World Trade Center - and construction of the replacement was delayed because there wasn’t (and still isn’t) sufficient demand to justify building it. Instead they’ll try to load it up with government agencies and such...
Not everyone works in the financial center. People need to man up and widen their work territory. I get tired of NJ people who not only never use Manhattan for entertainment, wouldn’t even THINK of working there. They’re idiots.
Some NYC fans are in denial that many of the jobs there have moved to NJ as well...
NYC reached its heyday 50+ years ago; when I was younger it was just a place to buy drugs, weapons, or fireworks.
Oh, please.
... and of course the MSM attempts to spin this into some sort of negative for Trump, whereas the people in the south and midwest who voted for and support Trump see it as a promise fulfilled. As if the empty hulks of former factory buildings don’t exist or something, jeez it’s like these people never leave their little coastal bubble cities to see what the real world looks like.
I didn’t declare NYC a “sanctuary city”; that was done by people who understand that without illegals half the city (and 90% of its schools) would be empty. It is a city far past its prime; the ports in Newark & Elizabeth have made NYC geographically irrelevant.
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