What Republicans do

[Kinser79]

(03-15-2017, 07:21 AM)Odin Wrote:

(03-14-2017, 06:13 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: 1.  What if you own your house outright and it costs too much to move?  You can't sell 'cause nobody's moving in.
2. There's no retraining program as such in the US.
3. Does this logic apply to the denizens of the inner cities?  I'm guessing if some poor bastard moves from a poor small town, that's where their new 'hood will be now.

I think there needs to be government programs to deal with those issues.

Yeah cause the solution to messes caused by government programs are of course MOAR Gubment programs.

1.  ON issue one I can't see a governmental program to address that not being designed stupidly, and not being abused.  With cash for clunkers for example people started buying up every care five years old or older that they saw, and re-selling them to the government for the program.  In fact more cars came off used car dealerships to be compacted than were poor folks giving Sam their clunker for cash.  Probably because they needed their clunker.

Result mass shortage of starter cars for new drivers, and used cars for use as delivery vehicles.

And that doesn't even get into the joke that it was for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Guess no one told Obama that coal is used in making steel.

2.  I think having a government program in this is stoopid.  First off they're going to retrain for the wrong things, and chances are they're going to train for jobs that don't exist.  Look at public education, they're still training people for a factory based economy of 1950.

If there is a governmental role at all it should be on the state--or better city level.  That way the companies that are in town can tell them "We need X people with Y skill".  Amazingly companies know who they need.  One would almost think that their bottom line is effected by a lack of qualified employees.

3.  Given that settlement patterns appear to be changing poor bastards moving to the inner cities will be SOL.  The housing that they could afford is either already taken, or being gentrified out of the price range.  If anything the new gettos will be the outter suburbs.  The urban model of the US for the Past Saeculum should reverse and we'll look more like Brazil.  Instead of inner city ghettos filled with the poor surrounded by less poor and affluent suburbs, we'll see the rich, affluent and not poor in the inner cities with the destitute moved out to the burbs.

Indeed there is already a phenomenon in housing happening down here called "Drive till you qualify".