I write about the conditions in my state, Mississippi……we are always at the top of the “worse” lists and the bottom of the “best” list…..healthcare…bottom, wages…..bottom, poverty….top…etc.
Regardless of what most state politicians want the world to believe there is NOTHING good going on in Mississippi for the people……
Take a trip through the Northwest part of the state along the Mississippi River…..you will see poverty like you have NEVER seen both….basically, if you did not know where you were you would swear it was a third world nation.
There are homes in the “Delta” that still do not have indoor plumbing….yes, I know…it is the 21st century……
These photos of today’s Mississippi Delta…….
I bring all this up because we were promised back in the early days of NAFTA that scenes like this would become a thing of the past written about only in history books…….
Globalization has been one of the worse ideas to fight poverty, especially in the South…….if anything it has made poverty even more brutal than before….
Now we have another promise of less poverty with the new trade agreement….TPP….
You can write about poverty and its effects….but if you have never looked it in the face….then your opinions are worthless as the promises of better days.
Hey,You can always apply to the Clinton Foundation…….
4 a bit of Pov. Release….:(
The poor we will always have with us. Appalachia is another such region but perhaps not as squalid. I note the first picture at the top of the article is of uninhabited dwellings. Take a look at some areas of Detroit — same stuff, different locale.
The first picture was an attempt to close down sub-standard housing….it did not work….
Mississippi was always a broke-ass backwater full of crushing poverty. It doesn’t take much to knock it out.
The difference with Detroit is that Detroit used to be a strong city, bustling with industry and full of beautiful buildings. Now the industry is gone, the people are gone and the buildings are being torn down by the tens of thousands. I can’t even drive past Detroit anymore. I stay on the Canuckistan side of the Ambassador Bridge now.
But yeah. Same crime. Different victim.
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It’s hard to believe that people here in the “Good ‘Ole USA” are living in those conditions. And the states and cities do nothing? Going back to “The Grapes of Wrath.” But, it’s now the future, and there it is – still.
Tax cuts are the main contributor to this situation…