Comment Re: before the inevitable (Score 0) 246
And there is the problem, you fully expect to asset strip the countryside to fund the cities. It used to be a symbiotic relationship where the countryside supplied food and raw materials and cities produced manufactured goods. But then you exported the manufacturing jobs because they were dirty and you didn't want to look at them and at the same time you went to war on the countryside. How many jobs in mining and logging did Clinton, Gore and Babbitt destroy in the search for cheap vacations for the urban elite?
Paying White people enough to work the farms costs too much so you flooded the country with illegals who get paid under the table. The legal H2A agricultural workers are even getting undercut. The abuse of the H1B program is well known on this blog so I won't go into it again.
And it's still not enough. Look at Washington State's budget deficit. A good deal of Oregon has already voted to divorce Portland, but Portland controls the legislature and won't let them go as there are still strippable assets on the east side of the state.
That applies to Washington too. Or Colorado. If the countryside was really holding back the cities Seattle (or Denver) would use their legislative power to unload the countryside and form their own state and keep all that money they spend on ungrateful hicks for themselves.
But they don't. That should tell you all you need to know about the way the money is really flowing.
