here. dave: right. that s part of the nafta thing. you can take it, have it here, take it over there, assemble it, bring it back. there s no tax. anthony: right. dave: it s definitely been good for our community. there s a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you ll see two or three come up the highway today. anthony: and who s buying those things? dave: everybody who s working-class. the manufactured housing is the craftsman home of the 21st century. anthony: it appears that marfa in particular is going to be a tourist and service economy. there s money flooding in here. it is an irresistible tide is there money trickling down, is it spreading down into the community? dave: we have jobs here. you can get a job here. as i said, everybody makes $10 an hour here, but 25 years ago we had nobody here and it was a dying town.
anthony: american parts assembled in mexico come back here. dave: right. that s part of the nafta thing. you can take it, have it here, take it over there, assemble it, bring it back. there s no tax. anthony: right. dave: it s definitely been good for our community. there s a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you ll see two or three come up the highway today. anthony: and who s buying those things? dave: everybody who s working-class. the manufactured housing is the craftsmen home of the 21st century. anthony: it appears that marfa in particular is going to be a tourist and service economy. there s money flooding in here. it is an irresistible tide is there money trickling down, is it spreading down into the community? dave: we have jobs here. you can get a job here. as i said, everybody makes $10 an hour here, but
assembled in mexico come back here. dave: right. that s part of the nafta thing. you can take it, have it here, take it over there, assemble it, bring it back. there s no tax. anthony: right. dave: it s definitely been good for our community. there s a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you ll see two or three come up the highway today. anthony: and who s buying those things? dave: everybody who s working-class. the manufactured housing is the craftsman home of the 21st century. anthony: it appears that marfa in particular is going to be a tourist and service economy. there s money flooding in here. it is an irresistible tide. is there money trickling down, is it spreading down into the community? dave: we have jobs here. you can get a job here. as i said, everybody makes $10 an hour here, but 25 years ago we had nobody
anthony: you have to? dave: yeah, every job here pays $10 an hour, whether you re the attorney or the barista or the janitor. so you re going to have to work a lot of different jobs to make it because it s expensive to live here. anthony: right. it s a small town. dave: 1,800 people. anthony: it seems an unlikely place to put in a spanking new public radio station that s heard all over texas, yes? dave: well, that s exactly right. i mean, your expenses for running a 100,000 watt transmitter on top of a mountain that gets struck by lightning every three weeks is pretty tough. but the station has support from pretty much everybody here. everybody listens to their radio in their pickup truck. the only other news source we have around here is the local newspaper. anthony: what are the big issues? what do people want to talk about? dave: the issue is border trade. and there s a lot of fear right now because the idea of changing nafta. anthony: american parts assembled in m
good for our community. there s a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you ll see two or three come up the highway today. anthony: and who s buying those things? dave: everybody who s working-class. the manufactured housing is the craftsmen home of the 21st century. anthony: it appears that marfa in particular is going to be a tourist and service economy. there s money flooding in here. it is an irresistible tide is there money trickling down, is it spreading down into the community? dave: we have jobs here. you can get a job here. as i said, everybody makes $10 an hour here, but 25 years ago we had nobody here and it was a dying town. so, you got the cowboys, border patrol. you got hipsters coming in from out of town. new york artists wearing weird glasses and white pants. maybe we don t understand each other, but we can all