Maybe it is a conspiracy by the vegetarians to destroy the livestock industry, or it could be a bunch of old buildings that are falling apart and should have been replaced before old age failures. The eco-freaks want the USA to be less prosperous. Eco-freaks and the Dims want American to use fewer resources and to be less wealthy. Therefore it makes sense to let it fall apart. And to forest fire the woods, and to destroy parts of the oil and natural gas industries, and to shut down manufacturing. The USA is like an A student. The eco-freaks and the Dims want the USA to be a C student like all the other societies. With lots of poverty, the USA will use poverty as an excuse to implement socialism and government control over the general population. Destroy and rebuild with the USSR and Communist China as the preferred method of government.
” . . . it could be a bunch of old buildings that are falling apart and should have been replaced before old age failures.”
I wonder how many of these food processing factories are being rebuilt in Mexico, Costa Rica, or Asia instead of the US.