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Louis linked a NYT article that discusses the loss of retail jobs, with a focus on Johnstown, PA, where as Louis notes, I worked and lived for many years. This town, which went overwhelmingly for Trump, is in desperate straights. Murders and drug overdoses have become commonplace, and the town keeps losing people as it deteriorates. The poor fellow the town hired to help revitalize the place, one Donald Bonk, whose family owned a corner grocery store there for 40 years, is truly delusional, thinking that there is any hope for the place. And one of Trump's top advisers, a jackass name Stephen Miller, seems to believe that the city's best days are ahead of it. His grandparents founded what was once a prosperous department store, Glossers, as well as a chain called Gee Bee. All gone now. Pretty much everything is gone. First the steel mills, then the pork barrel enterprises the late local congressman John Murtha schemed to get to come the area (Pelosi is a Murtha protege, not a mark in her favor). Now retail is going. When I moved there, in 1969 there were almost as many steelworkers as there are people now. How the college where I taught is still in business is a mystery. No doubt by taking anybody who ca breathe! _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
