Year before last we visited Monahans Texas, just west of Odessa. At the suggestion of a pipe fitter I met camping in the state park, we hung around two days exploring the booming Permian Basin drill sites to the north near Kermit.
He was in the state park because he was having trouble finding permanent space. The RV parks were all full and even overflowing with worker trailers.
He had come there from Pennsylvania where he got fed up with the political wackos interfering with the work. (His permanent home was Missouri) He would come to work to discover it had been shut down for some reason or other. That meant he lost pay.
In Texas there was too much work. He could work 24/7 if he could stand it.
People need to be productive (work and produce) for emotional as well as financial reasons.
Obama’s crowd wants to cripple people with their “liberating” Obamacare-gives-you-freedom-to-quit-your-job poison.
I had spent a lot of time in the past 2 years working between Monahans and Lovington. Railroad work. Grueling... but my God Hobbs is booming like nothing I have seen in my whole life... The Domino’s in Hobbs was advertising for delivery drivers at $16/hr. The McDonald’s in Monahans was about the same... to start.