This is in response/discussion to something in the Trump Threads from @IronBrig4 and @AshburnerX from their comments:
But here's why it's worth discussion: it doesn't quite work out. There's LOTS of bad feelings about this around the province, and generally people moved... they're still in bad straights, and few are any better off. So it's as much a human problem as anything else. Forced (or near-forced) resettlements just don't work out very well in the end, at least from what I've personally seen.
So a tangent I wanted to bring out of those "rather charged" threads an into its own.
Anybody else from NL on the board that knows more? I thought there was a "native" Newfie or two on the board?
They're broke, poorly educated, addicted to painkillers, and terrified that "those people" are getting ahead of them. http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ral-responsibilities-defense-kevin-williamson
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.
I suggest that both of you look up the history of something in Newfoundland and Labrador (the province I've lived in for the last 2.5 years) called Resettlement. A short article at Memorial University (the provincial university) also provides information. And while the "big official" program stopped in '75, there have been other communities "resettled" since then too, though not under the same official program, but similar results.I've been saying this for years and been called a monster for it. It's a huge problem in South East Ohio and by extension, West Virginia; all these old coal towns and farming communities can no longer self sustain and need to be abandoned. It would be saner and more economically viable for the government to buy them all out and offer to pay relocation costs to a town/city of their choice than to keep paying benefits to these communities for another 50-100 years when half of them can't even make a supermarket economically viable. The jobs aren't coming back, there is nothing left for you here.
But here's why it's worth discussion: it doesn't quite work out. There's LOTS of bad feelings about this around the province, and generally people moved... they're still in bad straights, and few are any better off. So it's as much a human problem as anything else. Forced (or near-forced) resettlements just don't work out very well in the end, at least from what I've personally seen.
So a tangent I wanted to bring out of those "rather charged" threads an into its own.
Anybody else from NL on the board that knows more? I thought there was a "native" Newfie or two on the board?