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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by ahallock on Sunday March 19, 2017 @09:53AM (#13907069)
Maybe wealth redistribution, in which the government takes a large portion for its own purposes, isn't what these disenfranchised people really want? I think they want empowerment and jobs, not a few scraps tossed their way.
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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by Frondo on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:37PM (#13908077)
Looking to someone else to provide a job for them seems like a different kind of handout. A reliance on a company to provide for them.

Which is funny, since the jobs left when the employers in these small towns betrayed them and abandoned them for overseas labor and robots.

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