Should trump Visit Our Country's Worst dimocrat Controlled Slums and Pitch Infrastructure

[Smyrna]

@JayJay

Not how it works.

I’ll give you an example…I think the Earth is held in its orbital plane by an invisible string. Prove me wrong.

You made the assertion…you provide the evidence for why you believe that assertion to be true.

Then we can falsify your hypothesis…or not.

That’s not how I choose to work.

[tnt]

@ohknow35

I know trump kind of set off a firestorm when he talked about Baltimore a while back.

Should trump visit these dimocrat cities, and using his lifetime of experience in real estate, lay out his vision to revitalize struggling communities.

He can talk to the young people about the future.

He can speak to the older people about the past, and how their neighborhoods have changed over the decades.

I hope he can do this.

Yes. Of course he should be.

He should also be working with congress to pass an infrastructure bill.

Why isn’t he?

[TommyLucchese]

He ■■■■■■■ promised to do this in his ■■■■■■■ campaign and then he did ■■■■■■■ nothing.

[TommyLucchese]

@LouC

See…this is also another reason why there are no more Slums or Economically Depressed neighborhoods in America!

Just FYI, “opportunity zones” with tax abatements and so forth have existed, funded by federal dollars at that, for almost forty years.

[JayJay]

@Smyrna

That’s not how I choose to work.

Then there is absolutely zero reason for your ideas to be even considered.

Thanks for your time.

[Jezcoe]

@JayJay

@ohknow35

@Cynic

Red states make up like 90% of the poorest states, typical of failed GOP leadership. Even with a President trying to cater to them they are still bringing up the rear.

I’m just asking about fixing up some cities.

If that scares you in some way…

^*

Depends how he offers to “fix them up”.

His initial infrastruture proposals included tax giveaways to a foreign-dominated industry sector…an expansion of those disastrous public/private partnerships where the taxpayers foot the bill and then also have to pay tolls to those mostly foreign companies whose revenue streams are also protected against future competition.

I don’t think that will do much to fight poverty but Trump is welcome to propose it.

Of course he’ll spin away the truth…he won’t present it like I did.

AKA Selling off the commons.

[SeaManatee]

He’ll go to point and laugh then leave.

[WuWei]

Only libs care about the poor.

[ohknow35]

@WuWei

Only libs care about the poor.

I could swear that I heard, very early into the trump administration, that he was going to have a meeting with Congressional Black Caucus members to discuss something along these lines.

But son of a bitch, they cancelled on him and of course people later decided to just call “RACIST”, again and again and again and again…

That’s the way I remember it anyway. Others could maybe look it up if they’re interested.

^*

[SeaManatee]

That’s exactly what I said, word for word.

[Kevhead]

@Cynic

Why do red states (the absolute poorest in the nation) have such poor parental examples

And why do they have such high cases of diabetics.

[WuWei]

@SeaManatee

That’s exactly what I said, word for word.

Is it? Ok. Why do you assume I was replying to you?

[WuWei]

Iced tea

[LouC]

@TommyLucchese

@LouC

See…this is also another reason why there are no more Slums or Economically Depressed neighborhoods in America!

Just FYI, “opportunity zones” with tax abatements and so forth have existed, funded by federal dollars at that, for almost forty years.

Yes I know that economic opportunity zones have been around for years.

This is a whole brand new Trump ball game.

Did you get to read the NYT article I linked?

Were you able to open it up?

[Patrick]

Government can’t fix broken families and morally sick communities.