Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "We Went To America…. What The Media Didn’t Tell You" video.

  1. The Rust Belt isn't as rusty as it used to be. Some areas, cities, counties have managed to find new economic opportunities. And some haven't. It boils down to a few reasons. 1) Location, location, location. If your community is off the beaten path so to speak you are often drawing the short straw. 2) Urban vs rural. Often counties in the Rust Belt may have a modest sized city but the rest of the county can be mostly rural aside from a few smaller towns or villages. This can cause conflicts as to what direction the people want to go. 3) Apathy and the refusal to see that things have changed. Inefficient businesses lost to more competitive ones. Taking the jobs with them. The de-industrialation of many areas did not help. Sometimes this was because of competition from off shore. But sometimes there were actual government policies that drove it. The academics in the 70s were talking about a post industrial society. Well I'm sorry but everyone isn't suited to higher education. What do we tell the people who aren't, we're sorry you'll just have to accept working at a convenience store for minimum wage. Plus a nation with the international commitments the US has requires a domestic industrial base. What happens when you buy everything from a potentially hostile country. And then they say no. In 1939 Germany's biggest trading partner was France. Also refusal to see change is just wanting the good old days back. The good old days often weren't that good really.
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  2. I only have one issue with shows like this that feature celebrity quests. Just because they may be famous that does not mean they speak for us, the great unwashed. I remenber l qoute l saw this year. I think it was post election. In my life l have needed a physician. I have needed a lawyer. I have needed a plumber. Ihave needed an automotive mechanic. I have needed a roofer. Ihave needed landscape service. Ihave needed a teacher. Ihave needed a priest. I have needed a friend. I have never needed a professional entertainer. I have never needed an actor. l have never needed a professional athlete. I have never needed any"celebrity to tell me who l should vote for. What political party l should embrace. Celebrities are entitled to their own opinions. I have no problems with that. Their celebrity "status" does not entitle them to shove their opinions on everybody else. Entertainers, this includes singers, actors, athletes and authors of fiction,earn their living by using a skill to give we the great unwashed a few minutes or hours of pleasure and escape from our daily problems. For which we pay. If any of us owes anybody. It is them. Not we.
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