DC has all the things you’re saying are wrong and they’re winning. East Gary has these wonderful things and it’s a failure.
The working class places are continually getting their hats handed to them by every essentially elite city. Why is that? You identify yourself off shoring and strike breaking with people of a different ethnicity, all done by elites.
Now you’re “unified” but you’re still getting your hats handed to you. The elite places are still pulling ahead every year. The gap isn’t only still there it’s widening.
I was a budget staffer in Congress so this is a softball. DC has a printing press in the basement. It creates a new government program via deficit spending which in turn creates an entire ecosystem of a built in constituency plus overpaid think tank writers, trade associations and multi-client lobbyist that don't just try to preserve but to grow said new program. Little actual productivity occurs in DC, merely money changing in the name of influence. Try to shave one dollar from the place and it goes into full protect mode (like right now) but when the steel industry went belly up, the Feds did not show up to save them. DC isn't winning based on merit or actual competitive advantage, it controls capital flows based on the laws it writes, which sent everything the Midwest built overseas. You can't take someone's boots then tell themselves to pick themselves up by their bootstraps...
Hey preaching to the choir, but the ball isn’t as soft as you think .
If we’re so unified and strong, why could they steal our boots? If they fooled us, why were we stupid enough to fall for it? Once or twice sure, but we’re going on a EDIT: half century losing streak. I don’t think proving we’re not racist for the thousandth time is going to work.
Also, it’s not just DC, like I said it’s elite cities. Rust Belt NYC lost five million industrial jobs and bounced back by replacing those jobs(proportionally more). Your Detroits and Garys, have not. Since 2000 the two places with the largest off shoring were furniture manufacturing in Iowa and computer equipment manufacturing in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley replaced those jobs Iowa didn’t. What’s going on?
A stirring and convincing essay, thank you.
DC has all the things you’re saying are wrong and they’re winning. East Gary has these wonderful things and it’s a failure.
The working class places are continually getting their hats handed to them by every essentially elite city. Why is that? You identify yourself off shoring and strike breaking with people of a different ethnicity, all done by elites.
Now you’re “unified” but you’re still getting your hats handed to you. The elite places are still pulling ahead every year. The gap isn’t only still there it’s widening.
I was a budget staffer in Congress so this is a softball. DC has a printing press in the basement. It creates a new government program via deficit spending which in turn creates an entire ecosystem of a built in constituency plus overpaid think tank writers, trade associations and multi-client lobbyist that don't just try to preserve but to grow said new program. Little actual productivity occurs in DC, merely money changing in the name of influence. Try to shave one dollar from the place and it goes into full protect mode (like right now) but when the steel industry went belly up, the Feds did not show up to save them. DC isn't winning based on merit or actual competitive advantage, it controls capital flows based on the laws it writes, which sent everything the Midwest built overseas. You can't take someone's boots then tell themselves to pick themselves up by their bootstraps...
Hey preaching to the choir, but the ball isn’t as soft as you think .
If we’re so unified and strong, why could they steal our boots? If they fooled us, why were we stupid enough to fall for it? Once or twice sure, but we’re going on a EDIT: half century losing streak. I don’t think proving we’re not racist for the thousandth time is going to work.
Also, it’s not just DC, like I said it’s elite cities. Rust Belt NYC lost five million industrial jobs and bounced back by replacing those jobs(proportionally more). Your Detroits and Garys, have not. Since 2000 the two places with the largest off shoring were furniture manufacturing in Iowa and computer equipment manufacturing in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley replaced those jobs Iowa didn’t. What’s going on?