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Old 09-11-2017, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
I think that testing positive for drugs on pre-employment screening along with an unwillingness to relocate to vibrant metro areas for (lots of available) work leaves many in the white working class feeling left behind in economically-depressed small towns and rural America. Meanwhile, they continue taking drugs and refusing to relocate while blaming harder-working and more reliable brown-skinned people for their plight while trusting Trump to work some magic that will bring high-paying jobs to their economically-depressed and poorly-educated towns. Ain't gonna happen.

A number of my closest friends own contracting companies in a variety of trades and the above dynamic is very real in their businesses.
Relocation is no guarantee either. Jobs in the "vibrant metro areas" are more than likely going to require technical or professional skills that folks from "economically-depressed small towns" don't have.
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