You are missing the point and getting lost in policy issues. Unfortunately, none of it matters in the short term because congress is severely dysfunctional, so any policy issue at this point will either be blocked or filibustered by the Republicans.
The real issue is addressing campaign finance, citizens united, and tax laws that allow the wealthy to pay essentially nothing.
But we all know those are not going to change anytime soon since it benefits the corporate overlords. The government works for the corporate interests, big banks, wall st, and the military industrial complex.
Any other social or political issues are just used to divide and distract from the real issues. Until the dysfunction and corruption in the government is addressed, not much will change.
All of these articles about specific policies, the wars which we are involved, and any other bullshit are simply devised to distract and divide people into the predictable red team vs blue team dichotomy. None of it matters.
Obamacare’s only reason for existence is to prove that no matter how much you regulate and prop up the private health insurance industry, it will always cost more and provide less than universal healthcare.
Obamacare needs to complete its mission, and be replaced quickly.
Generally the true problem with trailer parks, and the reason they’re so associated with rural white poors (and Hispanics but they never get in the photos) is because these areas just do not have proper rental housing of any sort.
The towns have single family homes, maybe one or two small apartment buildings, if any, and that’s it. So if you’re too broke to chase a house, but need to hold down a job, there’s no place to live. So they build trailer parks, which are dirt cheap from the landowner’s perspective, you can get away with a dirt road or two and some concrete pads, the plumbing is probably the most expensive part, but it’s going to be greenfield work. The land is going for a song. Everything else is the trailer owner’s problem. No building, no building permits, no proper construction, and you can make them mow the damn lawn for you, too. They don’t know any better. People with apartment experience know that you’re supposed to be maintaining your own fucking property, landlord, but they don’t live out here.
A piece of land this size in a proper city is too valuable for this use, though there are still a lot of them in proper cities, it’s just that out in Bumfuck Indiana they have no intention of building proper rental housing, and the trailer is a bad investment that poor people don’t understand, or worse, they do, actually, but it’s this or nothing.
I’m sure this book says much the same. I’m a trailer park kid so I can anticipate what’s in it. Hopefully it acts as a useful historical record but that’s all it’s good for.
My dad watches classic movies all the time and the Maltese Falcon is one that frequently pops up. Had no idea that the author of the book that its based on was a communist.
NYT knew what it was doing, it was warned by indian journalists on the fallout of its hitpiece , it went ahead and published, and now its acting innocent.
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