Uncle Orson on Obama's "bitter" speech

[james_davis_nicoll]

Unlike the inner cities, where many of the poor stay on welfare as long as they can and do drugs and crime and all the other things that the statistics say are endemic to the inner cities, in the small towns the people who don't have jobs move to a place where they can find work.

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[del-c.livejournal.com]

Small town jobs don't just sit around on government assistance when they can't find enough poor people. They get up and move to where they can find them.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

How often to "jobs" need government assistance? Mills and factories (and insurance offices and programming centers for that matter) go where they can get enough qualified labor to do the job in the cheapest manner, taking into account transportation and other delivery factors, such as tariffs.

There were and are plenty of poor people looking for work near the recently closed textile mills in the American south. They are just not capable of working for as cheaply as an equivalent worker in China or Viet Nam. Even factoring in the costs of shipping and the minimal tariffs that are imposed on imported goods here.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

I was parodying OSC's style. Overanalysing the ways it doesn't make sense wastes your time and misses the joke.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that, I missed the funny hat you were wearing. I thought you were serious.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

Here in Pennsylvania "jobs" do get government assistance sometimes. It comes in the form of the local municipalities and/or the state agreeing to give companies tax breaks if they locate their jobs here.