06-26-2018, 11:05 AM
We need to make the Rust Belt more attractive as a place to live. That means reviving its industrial economy and encouraging much of the tech business to relocate to places like -- well, if I am the Governor of Michigan, Michigan. Basically if you are paying $3500 a month in California, you can live much better in Michigan. Except for real winters the western part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is California without the traffic and high-tech jobs. It's a lot like what northern California was before the high-tech boom. Hate Michigan winters due to lake-effect snow? Then spend your winter vacation in a place with a Mediterranean climate. Heck, with the lower rent you could afford to spend a couple of weeks in Portugal or Greece.
American opportunity is far too concentrated in too few places, and the Rust Belt used to be a place with those opportunities. Heck, at one time Detroit was the most prosperous city in the world, and Cleveland wasn't far behind.
I think of President Roosevelt's TVA program intended to give the Mountain South cheap energy and attract jobs for people then dirt-poor... and Boulder Dam, intended to bring water to the subtropical deserts of Arizona and southern California. Can't we do something similar for... Detroit? (You might be surprised, but Detroit has mild winters for its latitude -- and no lake-effect snow).
American opportunity is far too concentrated in too few places, and the Rust Belt used to be a place with those opportunities. Heck, at one time Detroit was the most prosperous city in the world, and Cleveland wasn't far behind.
I think of President Roosevelt's TVA program intended to give the Mountain South cheap energy and attract jobs for people then dirt-poor... and Boulder Dam, intended to bring water to the subtropical deserts of Arizona and southern California. Can't we do something similar for... Detroit? (You might be surprised, but Detroit has mild winters for its latitude -- and no lake-effect snow).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.