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1 posted on 04/04/2020 6:15:25 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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In hindsight, what was that 15yo girl supposed to do? In 2020, there’s no social anything in Bumfuck, America.

There are few factories where men—her potential suitors—could have stable jobs.

There’s no energy moving into those communities; nothing new is on the horizon.

We cannot continue down this path.

It’s time to move manufacturing back to America.

Trump was keeping his promises to change that. Its what made him the target and us with him.

97 posted on 04/04/2020 9:38:49 AM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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Yeah. Good story, but you were supposed to get back to the girl.

Like, ten years later you happened thru the same town and suddenly had an abcessed tooth, and accidentally found her working as a dental assistant, yes, a dental assistant, with a picture of a nice looking young gentleman, a young black gentleman actually, and two kids, having been rescued from her circumstances by certain members of her extended family, who helped her get rehabbed, GED’d, and into the local community college and thence to work.

Too contrived and sappy like a Lifetime movie? Yes, of course, but still... maybe?

Alternatively, one happened thru the same unfortunate little town and stopped at a seedy looking little C-Store to buy some gas and a coke... the guy behind the counter looked kinda recognizable but you just couldn’t place him... just as one was about to walk thru the door to go back out to one’s car... oh yeah... The bouncer from the bar.

So one turned back inside to ask a few questions of the former bouncer between other customers... And the discerning reader is left to figure it out, without one actually having to come out and say what happened when.

Nice article, though. It does have truth in it.


102 posted on 04/04/2020 10:24:46 AM PDT by OKSooner (Hey Xi, do you see this here, you know what this means?)
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This is an excellent post..Note that the urban centers are where this virus is the worst...add to that the percentage of crime, abortions, lousy educational systems and you have reality staring you in the face. It is time to move many industries out of the population centers and into the flyover counties. It is time to decentralize government bureaucracies and share the wealth of government jobs in small communities. It is past time to restore the dignity and civil lifestyle of Main Street America. Maybe this virus will wake some people up.


104 posted on 04/04/2020 10:43:00 AM PDT by dunblak
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He nailed it.

The only part he left out was the synthetics they put in our food.

108 posted on 04/04/2020 12:30:51 PM PDT by riri (If people still dropping, most aint shopping.)
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As a very young Navy man I saw outsourcing coming in 1964. To be more specific, when that pillar of corruption, LBJ, signed into law the 1964 civil rights act.

In my mind it was a foregone conclusion what company’s were going to do.


109 posted on 04/04/2020 12:47:37 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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A sad tale of much truth and consequences, though the inability to write without vulgarity and profanity (or choice to do so) also testifies to the downgrading of America, and not just strip joints and drugs. Which has cost America greatly in lives, souls and money .

However, Americans of ages past endured more hardship without turning to drugs and moral degradation, and it is the spiritual decline of the country (including even in the evangelical churches) that is behind its choices to go liberal, immoral, and unwise in economics.

Concerning the latter, China was not simply happy to satisfy America's love for low prices at any cost, but I believe it was a calculated move on their part to vastly diminish the industrial might that was integral in enabling America to win 2 world wars.

111 posted on 04/04/2020 1:42:03 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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Somebody just missed being rolled.


118 posted on 04/04/2020 5:28:25 PM PDT by freedomlover
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No mention of union shakedowns driving business out, and lawyers using stupid juries to parasitize companies. They deserve some of the blame as well.


127 posted on 04/04/2020 9:17:58 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Yes, excellent article.


130 posted on 04/05/2020 4:28:07 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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