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SoCal Dave's avatar

A question for the mayor and governor. It sounds have the Haitians have moved to Springfield because of the job growth there. This raises 2 questions.

1) If the Haitians hadn't come for the jobs, would some other population, let's say white Americas, also have to moved in for the jobs and cause the same strain on the town services?

2) Is the problem there are seeing strained services due to the fact factories moved in and created jobs that the city did not plan for? Should the city either not have allowed the factories to move in, or built up their town services in anticipation of the new jobs that would be created? In the long run, isn't the growing population good for the economy and benefit the existing population?

I would like those questions to be asked by reporters so that I can better understand what is going on.

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Ginny's avatar

It’s not the mayor and the governor that we need to worry about they are saying that this cat and dog eating story is BS. We should be asking JD Vance and Trump these questions.

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SoCal Dave's avatar

I'm not saying that JD and Trump get off the hook. Rather, it's important to understand those details to further argue against JD. The point of the questions being that the strain on city services is bad planning when the factories came to the area, not the problem with workers who come to fill those jobs, whether they be white or Haitians.

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Christy's avatar

We are. The collective press, including the Bulwark, is not. The press has learned nothing since 2015.

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