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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)This would involve an industrial bank, federal subsidies to help start co-ops, especially in cases where the unemployed could band together to re-open, and probably do a better job of managing, plants that were closed due to outsourcing.
This would probably involve retooling many of those plants and having them make more popular products-former auto plants could actually make affordable, fuel efficient cars rather than the gas-guzzling land yachts Detroit insisted on putting out. Places that made things like refrigerators and air conditioners might be retooled to make solar panels. There are many possibilities.
What happened to the Upper Midwest happened because we let "the magic of the market" decide who kept their jobs and who lost them. Since the market declared war on the Upper Midwest, something on the scale of a domestic Marshall Plan will be needed to repair the war damage.