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Afromania

(2,768 posts)
4. nothing you can say.
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 08:14 PM
Nov 2016

They elected Trump who gave them zero specifics on what he was going to do to bring these jobs back. I mean realistically what jobs could he bring back at anything resembling living wages? Factory work where they pay people considerably less than a dollar an hour? Coal Mining where safety standards are skirted and it would take 16 months to make what a U.S. miner would make in one month?

The only thing the Democrats could say to the people who voted for Trump to get their vote is to straight up lie to them, just like he did. The way for jobs to come back to these places was for the US to embrace the future and the future is researching, developing and selling renewable Green Energy Tech along with anything that will be required by environmentally beneficial based types of manufacturing. Rather than see the writing on the wall they have all decided to stick their heads in the sand and decry the onrushing future by voting for a collective that denies global warming and pushes "clean coal" which is still dirty as hell when compared to all the other energy options.

Welp, they now have nothing to look forward to other than more economic desolation as they continue to have no industry, a health care apocalypse when suddenly massive swaths of their populations no longer have access to affordable(FREE) health care. Falling behind educationally as economic subsidies dry up and financial aid falls right off the vine.




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