Trump Tells Virginia Town It’s Failing, Cites the Wrong Place

[riversedge]

Source: dailybeast




http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/03/trump-tells-virginia-town-it-s-failing-cites-the-wrong-place.html



08.03.16 12:00 AM ET
Trump Tells Virginia Town It’s Failing, Cites the Wrong Place
Whoever prepped Trump for his visit to Ashburn apparently has never been there before.

ASHBURN, Virginia — .........................


......Donald Trump really, really wants to win Loudoun County—the absurdly wealthy Northern Virginia county where the rally Rahimyar protested took place. Trump even said so in his speech. And he should; George W. Bush won it in 2000 and 2004, and Barack Obama picked it up in 2008 and 2012. Loudoun voters predict presidents. Trump seems to get that.

“Loudoun County is so important,” he told the crowd at the offset of the rally.

But—evidenced by his speech—he doesn’t understand it. At all. And if he wants to compete there, he’s going to have to learn quick.

Loudoun is the richest county in America. That’s due in part to the enormous amount of money the federal government spent on the War on Terror in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The place is replete with defense contractors, engineers, and rocket scientists. And it’s recession-proof; while the rest of the country struggled through the Great Recession, Loudoun kept sprouting up neighborhoods of McMansions, seemingly with a swimming pool in every backyard.


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Funny.
the donald listed of factory closings--many not near nor even in the state!

[Kingofalldems]

1. I can testify there are no factories in Loudon--the horse set wouldn't allow them.

There is however a nice outlet mall there which I recently visited.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Great, another smug horse town....

Where the flies are so friendly they try to get a drink out of your eye.

[sheshe2]

2. Gah!

[no_hypocrisy]

3. My brother lives in Loudoun County.

It's the Virginian equivalent of Westchester County in New York State. McMansions abound.

[packman]

4. Lived in D.C. area for a few decades

Keep in mind Loudoun county back in the 70's was mostly huge tracts of farms. Really too far out from D.C. compared to the nearby Montgomery and Fairfax counties and too far of a commute . Then highways and metro stepped in and a while back, to keep its farm tax breaks, Loudoun county passed a county law that anything over 5 acres could be taxed (at a ridiculously low rate at that time) as a farm, especially so if animals were kept on it. Eyes lit up and the well-to-do saw the green grass of Loudoun County. The old-time farmers began to sell their huge farms and smaller 5 acres lots sprung up with a horse or a few chickens - but mostly horses for the horsy set . And that was the beginning of the MacMansions, beautiful well kept plots.

[sofa king]

5. Loudoun got Fairfaxed

Eastern Loudoun, anyway. Now it's impossible to get anywhere in under an hour, unless one takes the outrageously expensive "rich man's road" to the airport.

Perhaps most notoriously, some 40,000 acres of pristine Potomac riverfront were bequeathed to the people of Virginia, along with a mile-long stone wall dating back to George Washington's time. Lawyers exploited a hole in the will which allowed them to develop the property "for educational purposes," built a fake college, a golf course, and twenty million in luxury "student housing," and bulldozed the wall into a pond.

[IronLionZion]

6. Horse farms, McMansions, Dulles Airport

it's not industrial. They did have problems with the housing bust but have recovered quickly with defense contracting and even other technology related work that is not directly related to the government. I wouldn't live there but it's not in dire straights like he described. They are not hurting.

[arithia]

7. Donald also flew 20,000 feet over Harrisburg, PA and declared it a war zone

just from the appearance of factories in neighboring Steelton- not Harrisburg itself.

No data on the city. No walk on the ground. No discussion about the manufacturing industry. No discussion of city mismanagement.

"War zone".

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/08/donald_trump_war_zone_comment.html#incart_river_home

I'm convinced that the day The Donald stops talking out of one of his smellier southern orifices, Hell will freeze over.

[kairos12]

8. A county of war profiteers.

[bpj62]

9. Trump National Golf Course

This guy doesnt have a clue. His own golf course that he visited when he bought the old course and renamed it is only 8 miles or so from Briar Woods High School. He hasnt a chance in Virginia. With the exception of Prince William County, Teump can write off the rest of Northern Virginia.