Posted on 03/18/2013 7:02:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WILLISTON, N.D. — — He dropped out of north suburban Richmond-Burton Community High School, and a few years later Andy Turco found himself staining decks in the summer, plowing snow in the winter and going without work for a month or two in between.
Nearly homeless, he saw himself on a dead-end path.
Then he talked to a buddy working here, in a barren corner of North Dakota, where an ugly-sounding word — fracking — has driven oil from the ground and pushed unemployment down to 0.7 percent. That's right: seven-tenths of one percent.
Turco sold his car, hopped in a van and drove west.
Today, he's earning nearly six figures working about 90 hours a week on a drilling rig, one of many Chicago-area transplants who have joined thousands in a remote region experiencing an oil boom while much of the country tries to shake off a recession hangover.....
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I bet if he votes it will be dimoKKKRAT.
Chicago is a utopia - for the rich and the poor.
I think this guy was one of the (rapidly shrinking) ranks of middle class folks with aspirations for something better.
Exactly. Texas is already getting ruined by the Californians.
States should pass laws that only natives of the state can run for state offices.
Natural born. Defined as the parents that were both born in within the state.
Sounds like he’s a young man not afraid of work. Hope he’s saving his money.
The communists are definitely in full infiltration mode in the Red states. Trying to make the Red states just like the sewers they crawled out of. We’re taking a big hit here in Arizona too.
You are right, or at least they are going to try. I’m really worried about the influx of blue state residents. I’m seeing plates from California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey etc.. I’m sure these new residents brought their liberal ideas with them.
Starting with getting them called ‘RED’.
Remember when we were all defined as blue states. The media changed it when Bush won the Presidency.
Oh great, North Dakota being overrun with Chicago Marxists. I hope ND doesn’t go the way of Colorado after being overrun by Californians.
Having lived in Williston for several years, I’ve got a hunch that they will all leave by January-—LOL!
other than gambling, where, in North Dakota, can you spend a six figure income????
The media tagged Republicans states in that race with the color red specifically as a jab at the traditional conservative aversion to communism and the latters association with red.
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