A cynical observer might find it not-so-coincidental that the Sunday News & Record ran a front-pager on North Carolina’s still-struggling middle and lower class right next to an analysis on how well Greensboro’s progressive policies are working out.
The article on the economy focuses on rhetoric about bringing jobs back from the two (supposedly) outsider candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and while the article concludes they’re both blowing smoke, it save the last shot for Trump:
Time will tell if either candidate’s message of hope is enough to sway voters.
“We’ve lost our manufacturing jobs,” Trump said the night he won the Super Tuesday primaries. “Millions and millions of jobs, thousands and thousands and thousands of plants, manufacturing plants, warehouses. I mean, we are losing so much. We can’t let it happen.”
Sorry, but it’s just not that simple.
Boom. As for how well progressivism is working out for Greensboro, City Council member and head cheerleader Mike Barber points to recent plans by high-powered developers Roy Carroll and Marty Kotis as evidence that progressivism breeds development.
I guess Barber’s right–Carroll is counting on the proposed taxpayer-funded downtown performing arts center to drive his new hotel while Kotis is banking on the taxpayer-funded greenway, both of which provide little return on investment. But if that’s not enough, perhaps an employer will note the historical marker commemorating the Klan-Nazi shootings and decide to relocate to Gboro.
Then again, maybe it’s just a coincidence.
