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Augiedog

(2,545 posts)
Tue May 23, 2017, 09:10 AM May 2017

Will tRumps policies and budget create a mass population relocation?

As tRump's immigration policies remove undocumented people or send them into hiding, and out of the workforce, we are seeing a collision of the unstoppable against the unmovable. A declining supply of workers in low to middle class jobs and an expanding, inflating economy.

With the unemployment rate lower than usual the ability for labor intensive employers to find workers is at the cusp of becoming a crisis. farm labor of all sorts and manufacturing are about to run into the wall that all employers face, pay more for labor and raise prices or try to mechanize.

Trump's solution is to force people "to get to work"! He intends in his budget to force a large population exodus from rust belt and coal country to western states in need of cheap labor. This especially is aimed at older adults and families who use Medicare. This is one of the key consequences of destabilizing and wrecking the social safety net our nation has put in place to prevent a reoccurrence of the worst effects of economic troubles.

The people who voted for tRump are about to find out just how cruel he and his republican henchmen really are when it comes to vicious policy consequences. The very Bible Belt, rust belt and confederate flag waving suckers who frothed and foamed, fumed and fussed over how glorious tRump is are about to find out that they are the recipients of the "gloryhole" .

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Will tRumps policies and budget create a mass population relocation? (Original Post) Augiedog May 2017 OP
population relocation is already happening crazycatlady May 2017 #1

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
1. population relocation is already happening
Tue May 23, 2017, 09:12 AM
May 2017

If you look at Census data (or historical electoral maps), you will see people moving from the northeast and rust belt to the sun belt (as someone who hates hot weather, why is beyond me).

The states they're moving to tend to be red and some have draconian GOP policies.

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