12 Hellholes of what America will look like soon

All cities, villages, towns crumble without sufficient economic activity to sustain the populations. I could list here a thousand, not just twelve. Government isn't to blame for
these crumbling places, the "private sector" has found greater profits to be had by moving jobs elsewhere. Sometimes the small industries are just consolidated into a larger factory that must be located closer to a larger labor supply. Sometimes the local industries become obsolete and disappear. Sometimes a hedge fund like Bain Capital buys the industry and sells it to China or India, and the plant or business closes. Sometimes the youth move away and leave no labor force that is useful. There are many reasons, all are economics, little has to do with politics.

Government does impact cities and particular states, through it's procurement programs and Congressional "earmarks" that sustain or encourage certain businesses. The party in control of Congress and the White House can allocate huge amounts of money into states and areas from which they draw their support. Texas is a great example of a state that has prospered greatly ever since it became a vital source of "conservative" votes in the 1980 election. Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and other states that have not provided support for
Republican candidates have fared poorly in the past three decades, with industries moved away and little to no encouragement by Federal procurement.

President Obama has made an issue of rebuilding our infrastructure and small towns, but the House of Representatives has been in adjournment for the past year or two and little has been done with the proposals. Maybe next year will be better. But, until the selling of our industry is stopped, the decay and hopelessness will continue.

Certainly labor unions and government have played roles in the demise of our industrial base. The key, however, is the word "profit" and "growth", as defined by the demands of Wall Street analysts and brokerages. They drive the ships, requiring even the largest and most profitable corporations to do more and better every quarter else be punished heavily by these who "make markets" in the stocks. That is the cancer within our system, that which eats away at the tissue of our society and draws the lifeblood of the nation to itself, just as surely as a tumor in the lungs or brain multiplies itself in similar manner.

No longer can a small corporation or business owner be content with producing a useful and wanted product and employ the local population, becoming a respected and worthy member of the community. A pharmacist is now an employee of Walgreen, a Doctor is now an employee of Wellpoint, the hospital is one of a hundred owned by a company from Memphis, the department store is just one of 3,000 owned by a corporation headquartered in London or Berlin. Corporatism has no relationship to the local communities or those who live there. The only relationship is with the brokerage and the Reagan Bank that arranges the financing.

Section Eight housing, by the way, is not a big thing in suburbs, but primarily supports the urban ghettos and projects developed by large public corporations that have access to $Billion loans and can build thousands of units at a time, scraping away the urban blight and replacing it with "projects" that will become blight in a few years.