Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Guy who knows about some fixes just points to the article:
This guy isn't going to let the opportunity pass to make one of his favorite points:
I am seeing lots of passionate reaction to the story, like these:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 4:04pm
And just part of a much bigger issie that faces Dems in 2020, as optimistic as we want to be...
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2019/to-ta...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 4:14pm
Yes, wouldn't solve the medical care problem in truly rural areas (but let's get brutally real about that: what ever did? you drove 200 miles if you needed a hospital or major treatment; stubborn old people who wouldn't move closer to access were really just chosing to die without treatment)
THAT SAID, that's a fascinating article. Many parts are contrarian, debunking classic tropes. Especially like this part as to policy:
We tend to think the whole corporate welfare thing of competing for luring big businesses to set up in a town is bogus and truth be told, there are many fails. But what else is there? The most popular smaller cities right now do have lots of business going on, i.e., Asheville and Charlotte in NC, San Antonio, Phoenix, Nashville...
I sure as hell remember when Seattle was totally dependent on one industry, though, Boeing. Seems like you were always reading about layoffs there! What the hell was that all about actually? Was airplane building really that important to the U.S. economy that the whole country was on alert about it?
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 11:52pm
There's some blame that Reagan didn't enforce anti-trust, and megamergers eliminated the fair level playing field across the country.
https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/7/14/14702240/antitrust-enforcement-d...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 1:57am
Sure as hell sounds like the problem! betcha Liz Warren has something to say on it?
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 3:21am
Housing costs are like the 2nd major issue for many voters after health care.
I ran across this great work the other day, the National Low Income Housing Coalition with their interactive national map of what wage is required to pay for a two bedroom apartment:
https://reports.nlihc.org/oor
(Of course, they base it on 1/3 of income, a standard that nearly everyone gave up expecting a long time ago.)
As much as the environmental people would like it, we can't all congregate in the same ten places across the nation and not have the housing go sky high. There's got to be jobs spread all over. Until "they" build the miraculous cheap high density housing with excellent public transport that pundits like Matthew Yglesias have been yammering about forever, that is. Everybody can't live in the same cities. Can't be changed overnite. We got too many people for that, just a fact, and tons of houses we built in suburbs allover the place. This is actually a strong anti-immigrant argument I hear from other pretty liberal people--take more unskilled workers, best require they live in small towns in flyover.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 12:04am
Great list for perspective on how big the U.S. actually is:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 12:36am
By the way, those who are using this story to push the Medicare-for-all or expand-Medicaid argument aren't getting the main gist of the story: providers are disappearing from rural areas. Cut-rate payments from an insurer, no matter who it is, is not going to solve this problem. For example, I can't see a newly minted doctor saying "oh I think I'll go practice in rural Tennessee so I can get reimbursed $20 per office visit per patient." You've got to give some incentive, like forgiveness of education debt or some such, or it's going to continue.
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 4:17pm