Not everyone in America is equipped to work a technical job, and you can only have so many McDonald's on so many street corners.
Precisely. Deindustrialization means dense concentrations of poor people left behind, a fact free traders completely ignore. Stable, unskilled factory jobs are the first rung on the ladder out of the ghetto.
"Sadly, this sort of thing is a major side effect of what happens when manufacturing flees a country, which the powers that be would prefer that everyone ignores.
"Not everyone in America is equipped to work a technical job, and you can only have so many McDonald's on so many street corners."
Both sentences start off with a true statement and end with a false conclusion. Not ALL the powers that be would prefer to ignor it. Some would make the right changes, but liberal judges and organizations like ACLU would thwart them at ever corner.
AFA McDonalds is concerned, so what? I don't care how poor I was I would leave a place like in a minute. I bet 98% of people living there could leave if they chose to. I would walk or even crawl to get out. I would find a job at a McDonalds in another, safer town. I've done a lot worse. This is America. There is NO reason short of total physical or mental impairment that prevents people from leaving a crap hole like that and finding something better.
Good grief, people in Central America do it every day -- by the thousands.