Posted on 07/12/2018 10:45:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
From the article:
“sold 33 percent of production to Wal-Mart stores–the highest number federal law allows a retailer to buy from a single manufacturer”
Anybody know what this is about? There’s a federal law about how much a retailer can buy from a manufacturer?
“Wonder what was key in Asheville’s resurrection?”
Tourism.
Asheille city government finally paid off it’s Depression era bonds in the early 80’s and didn’t have the money to bulldoze 1/2 the downtown and replace with ugly red brick buildings like happened in many cities during the 1960’s.
With block after block of 1920’s buildings and a rising economy in the mid to late 80’s to 2000 the money moved in and so did rejuvenation.
“My life, like everyone else’s, took a big dip,” says Voss. “The murder rate has tripled, gang activity is everywhere, suicides are up. My cousin committed suicide in 2010. He was laid off from Dan River and unable to find work and got into drugs. My nephew was murdered that same year, it had to do with drugs. He was 28. You couldn’t imagine any of this happening in the 90s. The middle class has moved to the lower class. What used to be a middle class neighborhood is now ‘the hood,’” he says.
They are misusing the term no doubt and too many people are too ignorant to know it.
AS you state FT will never occur in a world where governments are seizing more and more power. Tariffs give them even more power.
# 4 in the nation is especially good.
[Courtesy of Uni-party.]
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Hmmm, now I'm worried …
He is referring to the descendants of slaves.
He is referring to the descendants of slaves.
I get that same feeling. Especially going downhill through town on the main drag toward the river.
Sure those towns have had the infrastructure for years but those were before massive and state regulation. I worked with communities to help the receive grants and loans that were targeted on sewage systems. It is enormously expensive to build or maintain these systems.
Water and air regulations have also been imposed. Like small businesses they have difficulty in meeting the costs of this regulation (Entry Barriers) which are much easier for larger towns and businesses.
You are sub human. An animal. I detest your type.
Such verminous hatred is the calling card of the Democrat Party. But it clearly shows what kind of person you are.
The Price is Right often gave away Dan River sheets as prizes.
Verminous and venomous.
Yup. Near Greensboro College. People swear they met at Westwood Tavern.
As the productive element not strongly tied to the place by family history leaves for greener pastures it’ll be less prone to voting conservative because the wards of state seldom relocate as they have no motivation, their EBT gets filled every month no matter where they are. The working private sector will always be in the corner of Trump or some future President in the mold of Trump. They may not remain Republican however, as Republicans are just as responsible for the deaths of their communities as the Democrats are.
Manufacturing employment peaked in the U.S. in 1979. Think about what that means:
1. It declined even during the longest post-WW2 economic boom in U.S. history.
2. It peaked at a time that nobody could credibly claim was the heyday of U.S. economic power.
At the same time we are seeing 20% of U.S. families with no nobody employed (I'm still not sure if that is "families" or "households," though the distinction might be irrelevant), we're also seeing employers all over this country complaining that they can't fill their open positions. This means one of three things is at work here: (A) the chronically unemployed don't have the skills to work these jobs (and by "skills" I mean even something as simple as showing up to work on time for a job that requires no skilled labor); (B) the chronically unemployed don't have any interest in working; or (C) the jobs simply aren't located where the unemployed people live.
I'd say (A) and (B) are major indicators of a social breakdown, while (C) reflects a cultural issue for people tied to an unrealistic (in the modern world) expectation that nobody should ever have to relocate to where the opportunities are better.
A couple of other possibilities:
D) The employer has a position spec’d for a $35/hr. worker but is only willing to pay $16/hr.
E) The employer’s expectations are totally unrealistic (i.e. someone with ten years of experience, but under age 35, with a perfect resume match of all desired skills who will require zero investment in training).
And subsist by cooking or consuming meth.
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