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Dulcinea

(7,479 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 06:28 AM Sep 28

The Rust Belt manufacturing collapse devastated their communities. Two men explain who they're supporting for president

(CNN) raw tension between what was and what could be in his community runs deeper than what can be seen through the passenger windows.

It’s a feeling that comes through in his every word passing through the streets where he grew up.

“Our region has been screaming and crying out, ‘Hey, we’re here. We’re trying to change. We’re trying to grow. Look at all the thing we’re doing,’” he says. “And yet nobody truly paid attention until we became a battleground county.”

Politicians and their campaigns are paying attention now, that much is clear.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rust-belt-manufacturing-collapse-devastated-100039673.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20240928-0&bt_user_id=OnGkCWUKujAi42OM4o9%2FggkCx8BfW232yZrUO9vrvDvAXR0LhoWTP%2B9EuPZj8d1j&bt_ts=1727515327550

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The Rust Belt manufacturing collapse devastated their communities. Two men explain who they're supporting for president (Original Post) Dulcinea Sep 28 OP
Here is your link ... but cleaner UpInArms Sep 28 #1
Effing trump promised thousands samplegirl Sep 28 #2
Even though inflation is down now, people are feeling the cumulative impact of it every day. MichMan Sep 28 #3
NAFTA was a bad idea, and letting China join the WTO was a horrible idea. dalton99a Sep 28 #4

samplegirl

(12,082 posts)
2. Effing trump promised thousands
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 06:53 AM
Sep 28

Of good manufacturing jobs when he came to
Ohio!
He created nothing! But my town is full on Trump!

MichMan

(13,200 posts)
3. Even though inflation is down now, people are feeling the cumulative impact of it every day.
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 07:12 AM
Sep 28
“It’s not like my wages are going up,” Kerner says. “Not a complaint, but my wages aren’t going up. And I get it - I see that touted a lot. Wages going up. Wages going up. I talk to my friends, ‘Your wages going up?’ No. I don’t know whose wages are going up.”
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