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Gary Indiana in sad shape
I drove through The edge of Gary today going and coming on the main drag, us 20 I believe. There were a whole lot of architecturally nice buildings that were mostly in very dilapidated condition. It did not seem unsafe though.
Lots of vacant lots which clearly used to have homes on them. When the Industry leaves the aftermath is devastating. Although I did see some huge factories over by the lake with lots of smoke coming out their chimneys which look abandoned.
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Lot's of little towns like that. Kinda makes you wish someone would come along and make it great again don't it.
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I'd rather see all that smoke polluting China than the Midwest. I know it's politically expedient to glorify manufacturing jobs but in all honesty they are **** jobs for **** pay most of us would never want to do day in and day out. Today far more Americans are employed in the service sector than manufacturing and for good reason. It's far more difficult to automate or export those jobs.
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Took the train from Indiana Dunes Park into Chicago a few years back. I thought the same thing when it passed thru Gary.
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Folks who have been left behind in the face of a changing world by job loss to technology or from moving plants away are suffering for sure, but the truth is that no politician can bring those good paying jobs for unskilled folks back. they are gone.
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True enough, but a substantial part of the reason why they were good paying jobs were the unions. The diminishment of the power of US unions accounts or a lot of the reason why jobs have become lower paying. Politicians could encourage the growth of unions which would improve wages. Canada has a higher level of unionization and lower levels of inequality.
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years ago when I thumbed 43 states, and Mexico.I was afraid to thumb in Chicago,so I rode a train to Gary. I went into a bar for a beer,it was all black.Some guy told me white boy you best get out of town before night.I headed south at high speed,and got out of there.
They an nuke it for all I care.
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...but the Rs won a lot of blue collar votes starting with Reaganby talking about things like gun control.
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Maybe because they represent people living in Illinois? If it is a good idea, and I have to agree it is a good idea, then our Hoosier pols should assist in funding it.
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I know I sounded mean,but if you look at my profile you'll see I'm a mix.GermanIrish Afroman I call my self. I have had more racial hatered against myself,and wife,from the darker side of the family. Black folk can be the worse at predjudice.
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I hope you can find peace with it. We can choose our friends but we cannot choose our relatives.
My family is nearly 100% German stock but even with the presumed homogeneity we have some real nutzos in the family
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