What exactly do you recommend to strengthen the economy in rural West Virginia? There’s no return on investment in an area with negative population growth, just as there aren’t enough rate payers to justify millions of dollars in broadband infrastructure to service half a dozen 20-acre homesites. Businesses are moving to areas with a positive ROI where labor is widely available (and educated), houses are available for that labor, and economic synergy is magnified due to proximity with supporting industries. The reason the economy boomed in WV in the first place was extractive industries who knew they could make bank by paying no-education rural residents next to no money to shovel coal out of open pits. If that’s not a viable industry anymore, then what’s left? Tourism? Hospitality? Retail? The government can’t force businesses to set up shop where they’ll lose money.
Funny you say this, I’m not even a capitalist, and that’s part of the capitalist problem. If it’s not profitable, nobody gets help.
And therein lies the problem. You, much like all the other Democrats, are so capitalistic in nature that you’re willing to let anybody who’s not wealthy enough just suffer.
What exactly do you recommend to strengthen the economy in rural West Virginia? There’s no return on investment in an area with negative population growth, just as there aren’t enough rate payers to justify millions of dollars in broadband infrastructure to service half a dozen 20-acre homesites. Businesses are moving to areas with a positive ROI where labor is widely available (and educated), houses are available for that labor, and economic synergy is magnified due to proximity with supporting industries. The reason the economy boomed in WV in the first place was extractive industries who knew they could make bank by paying no-education rural residents next to no money to shovel coal out of open pits. If that’s not a viable industry anymore, then what’s left? Tourism? Hospitality? Retail? The government can’t force businesses to set up shop where they’ll lose money.
Funny you say this, I’m not even a capitalist, and that’s part of the capitalist problem. If it’s not profitable, nobody gets help.
And therein lies the problem. You, much like all the other Democrats, are so capitalistic in nature that you’re willing to let anybody who’s not wealthy enough just suffer.