[Schlagbohrer]

The united states could spark a rural revival like you're talking about with investment into the healthcare and education infrastructure in those communities. That's what other countries do to prop up the rural economy- the steady lifelong jobs created for all the people who work at the schools, clinics, the library, provide an economic base for the town.

[philistine]

That has never been a part of the American experiment. Structured development like that has yet to happen in the United States.

[Schlagbohrer]

True, although the New Deal era came close. America's most socialist time when it did the most public investment, and we are STILL living off the benefits of that.