Mark Cuban Says a 'Red Rural Recession' Is Coming Soon. Cuts, Firings, and Grant Cancellations Are Set to Wreck Small Town Economies
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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban sparked a firestorm online this week after warning that a wave of federal cuts under President Donald Trump could soon

Fuck em.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    232·
    6 days ago

    I took a ‘no tolls’ route through Oklahoma on a road trip yesterday and passed through several basically abandoned towns. (Every damn one had a 30mph speed limit with a cop hanging out at the sign to hand out tickets, too.)

    Even though these towns are broke they still have enough money for a fat, piece-of-shit cop to sit with their engine running in a new cruiser at a 30mph sign every day.

    I feel like we’re already there, Mark.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 days ago

      How do you think those towns are funded?

      Ticket out of towners knowing they’ll never show up to court.

      Speeding tickets are literally the only way those towns can afford any cops.

  • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    They’re all going to keep voting red next time, right? It’ll all just figure itself out if we keep going far enough?

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    “No it won’t. It will be the best deal small red towns will ever see. You lovely people won’t believe the tremendous wealth that is coming. And if it doesn’t and you end up starving and homeless it is because of Biden.”