Some workers who rebuild homes after hurricanes are afraid to go to Florida. They blame a law DeSantis championed
Some workers who rebuild homes after hurricanes are afraid to go to Florida. They blame a law DeSantis championed
Immigrant workers from across the US raced to Florida to help rebuild after Hurricane Ian. But now, nearly a year later and days after another major hurricane hit, some of those workers say this time they’re staying home.
Saving click: this is about migrant workers who might get arrested under new FL immigration law.
75I presumed as much.
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This is going to absolutely devastate Florida. They need as many people as possible to do work, simply not enough workers live in Florida to rebuild it after a massive weather event. Anything that prevent workers from entering Florida means anyone working in Florida can charge more.
This may actually sink Desantas as a presidential candidate. There are more storms on the way. a slightly damaged house can become unlivable if subsequent events.
48This may actually sink Desantas as a presidential candidate.
Nah, they'll just spin the blame on "greedy migrants", and you know people will buy that
40Florida also has a number of restrictive rules about other trades/services not accepting out of state certifications. Traditionally this has been to protect Florida trades, but has become a monopoly where service is degrading while costing more.
6Even then there was a lot of 'off book' work done by people who could do the job. Basically smaller jobs there would be easily knocked out, and less profitable have to wait for an official company to acknowledge them or just get someone. Small damages can become big problems if not fixed before the next storm.
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This is going to absolutely devastate Florida.
Good. This is what they wanted, as reflected by their votes.
They need as many people as possible to do work
No they don't. The only thing they need is to be economically and politically quarantined. Florida has become an openly fascist state is a threat to the well-being of the US and the rest of its people. They need to understand the consequences of their choices.
This may actually sink Desantas as a presidential candidate.
Nope. DeSantis was never a viable opponent to Trump, and the numbers have reflected that from day one.
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I'll take the stance this is actually a positive, since rebuilding after a hurricane in florida is a bad idea to begin with. It's just gonna keep happening and keep intensifying in severity. The more people who relocate out the less people there'll be at risk.
34Let the conservatives stay as they insist. They claim it's not happening and mock the normal people who have tried to warn them for decades. Fuck them. Maybe mother nature can help cleanse a little bit of conservatism from the planet.
29And the less Electoral College votes that shithole has too. Let the Everglades reclaim it all.
16Florida's MAGA magnetism is a net positive for the rest of the country. They're effectively gerrymandering themselves by packing into one voting area. Even if they gain EC votes, other areas of the country will be relatively more Blue and as Florida policies Brownback their quality of life, it'll only help the Dems win votes.
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Good. You keep electing fascists, you deserve to suffer for your choice.
32There is strong gerrymandering going on there. That form of vitoing ensures the most extreme rise to the top since the other views never have enough votes to tip an election.
13Sure, but DeSantis won a statewide election, unaffected by gerrymandering. So even though FL's congress has more extreme people because of that, they're not the only ones who enacted this law. They didn't have to elect a fascist as a state, but they did.
Saying that, I do feel bad for the Floridians who didn't vote for him and get fucked over because of this. But anyone who voted for DeSantis deserves whatever they get from his cruel actions.
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I can see Florida becoming the new Detroit over the next few storm seasons because of this.
Once the rot takes hold it’s a ton of work to reverse.
25It won't go that far unless people stop wanting to live in Florida. Since they are still building condos at the 500k+ level as fast as possible, I doubt they see significant decline.
3Those condos are going to be 5M+ when every insurance company refuses to do business in Florida.
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You get what you vote for.
22Sometimes you get what lobbyists pay for or badly drawn district maps tell electoral voters the people wanted, even if the popular vote disagreed.
In short, not always.
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You reap what you sow Desantis.
Consequences are a bitch.
16Lol I doubt DeSantis is feeling many consequences. I'm sure he's got plenty of non destroyed property to chill at while the rest of the state suffers.
11He's definitely feeling his shitty polling numbers.
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6The big point you didn't mention is that conservatives will consume whatever made up message is thrown at them, apply zero critical thinking and take whatever they accept as an authority as never lying to them. Their lying leader is more of a symptom of this scourge thats plauging all us regular, compassionate people in society
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ah, if it isn't the consequences of my actions.
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i would be elated by this, but events that wipe out the people who cant afford to bring people in to rebuild, means those properties will just be eaten up by the massively wealthy.
rinse, and repeat.
every time theres economic collapse or whatever, the wealthy can weather it, purchase all resources at rock-bottom prices, often with the governments assistance (theyre job creators!), and more wealth is migrated upwards.
but guess what, when the economy is great, who gets the benefit? giant tax breaks for rich people.
if we win, we lose. when we lose, we lose. the system is broke people, but yeah, at least you have your guns.
10I understand your overall concept, for real, unpredictable one-in-a-million catastrophes.
But this is slightly different. So the wealthy swoop in, buy cheap, and renovate. GOOD. LET THEM. They will pay a lot of money to poor workers in need of jobs, pay INSANE costs to insure, if anyone will even insure them, and then climate change will wipe out their house too. Rinse repeat until everyone gets it through their thick skulls it's a problem not to be fucked with.
Or said another way, if you want the government to support the poor people who lost their homes, do it by helping them relocate, not help them rebuild their castle so it can sink into the swamp again.
6this isnt a once in a million catostrphic event. this is happening daily across the country in every town you can envision... this is at the core of the wealth migration for the past 40 years. every.single. downturn.... every. single. recession.... every.single. bust.
'job creator' is code for 'wealth migration upwards'.. its the mantra of the ignorant who still believe in trickle-down.. its a completely fabricated idea pushed by the rich to make us all believe theyre not in it for themselves.
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Should we build a wall on the Florida border and not let residents out?
9Turn it into an open air retirement
prisonhome.1Let the good people out, the fucking hickabilly's and cousin humpers can live in the shit hole they created.
1Those aren't the stereotypes that comes to mind for the worst Florida has to offer. More like old retired Boomers and upper middle class culture warriors who thought DeSantis' Covid denial was a great idea. But I didn't take a census or anything.
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Using Google Earth, go to 4195 Pine Island Rd in Matlacha Shores, FL. Currently, if you go down into street view you can see before & after images of the area, depending on which side of the street you are on. It still looked like the "after" images in August when my field techs were down there & taking pictures.
9Not sure why couldn't include the URL yourself but
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ood6BKpjd4Xx6Csj8
The street view looks fine?
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I wouldn't go there either. Rebuilding is going to be slow.
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