Tornado Alley (PROG)

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"Quickly, Take Charleston WV, once the 'chemical center of the world' population 50k.....Lost 10,000 good paying jobs shipping that industry to India...... "

There were at least 200 thousand textile and various other mill jobs within 15 to 20 miles of my home. They didn't pay great, but if you had a good work ethic and showed up there were better jobs (General Dynamics EB Division, which is still here, Thermos, Federal Paperboard, Triangle Plastic Wire and Cable, Wire Wind... later bought by Southwire and eventually closed) The whole Blackstone River Valley, as well as all of Eastern Connecticut was composed of mill towns.

https://blackstoneheritagecorridor.org/exploring-the-blackstone-river-valley/heritage-centers/

The thing is, our industry didn't go overseas. It went south to the Carolinas and Georgia.. etc. I don't hear you bitch about that. Kaman opened a place down there somewhere and a friend of mine went down to train the people who would take his job. All they did was stand around and snicker and abuse him... call him Yankee Doodle. Funny motherfuckers, huh?

But when the jobs went offshore, suddenly it wasn't funny anymore? C'mon Cletus. Where's your sense of humor? Or at least irony...

Breaking the unspoken Social Contract between corps, employees and communities....(thanks to the corrupted government)

Well... now that you voted for a national "Right to Work" law, I'm sure things will improve.

I never thought the leopards would eat my face, says the guy who keeps voting for the "leopards eating people's faces" party