Vt. Resident: To Bring Poor Refugees into Our Poor Town and Expect a Boom Is ‘Delusional’

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COOK: "The problem is, is that, to take a community as poor as Rutland, and we are probably the second poorest community in the state, and to bring poor people into our community and expect some kind of economic boom out of it, and, I’m trying to be polite about this, but it seems delusional to me. And, we have situation in our city right now where fully 1/3 of the average household income comes from public assistance. We have a --"
KILMEADE: "Right."
COOK: "-- welfare rate that's five points higher than the rest of the state. We -- we have a real problems."