[BlueStreak]

This article is painfully accurate. The idea, as ZeroJunk put it, is that if we, :"....yank the rug..." out from underneath them, they'll go to work. History proves that if you yank the rug out from under them in an economy were there is no work, they will;

A). Abandon the community and go elsewhere, leaving vacuous blight behind them. (This is what most people do.)

B). Go deeper into the social safety net, for life, instead of off of it. (This is what some people do.)

Or;

C). Turn to crime. (This is what all too many people do, unfortunately. And, believe me, it's shocking to see who does this. It might be folks you never thought would resort to crime. But, poverty and desperation are powerful motivators. That's one thing the GOP has right. It just doesn't motivate many people to do what THEY think most people will do.)

D). Some will try to do the entrepreneurial thing. A few might even succeed. But, as one man told me many years ago; "How in the fuck to you create a product or service to market, when NOBODY has any fuckin' money?!"

Anyone who has lived in the Rust Belt should know this. When "good" jobs disappear, then unemployment disappears.......people disappear, leaving nothing but abandoned homes and boarded up businesses.

And, every year our nation fills up with more cities and towns that look like this, declining into ruin waiting for the next Henry Ford.

Dave