Reply #22: Fixing factories means jobs. Jobs mean no poverty.

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Most white people blame the riots of 1968, when the major fraction of white people moved out of Benton Harbor for St. Joseph. But really the whole area fell apart after the good-paying manufacturing jobs left -- Whirlpool, Bendix, Heath Kit, Auto Specialties Company, Modern Plastics, etc. Now it's all tourism and the locals hate the FIPs.

PS: Sorry to hear you spent time in the Berrien County Jail. Most of the people there, working and staying, are decent sorts. It's just our society has become this monstrous thing of power, worshipping money.

Keep going forward, Inchworm! Forward!

PPS: The other sure cure for poverty is an education. And we've seen where the powers-that-be fall on that issue, as well.