Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
My Hometown
B.Springsteen
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I’d sit on his lap in that big old buick and steer as we drove through town
He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
In `65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown, my hometown, my hometown
Now main street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more
They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain’t coming back to
Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown
Last night me and kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I’m thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night i sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good
Look around
This is your hometown
“.... state and national legislation forces the retirement of fossil fuels”
Well, to be sure Americans voted for that.
Wait, what? We didn’t, did we.
No, this is being done purposefully and with malice aforethought. Evil is the only way to put it.
It will be impossible to change the socialist mindset of liberals.
‘Oh we’re striking here in Allentown
and we’re closing all the factories down (Yeah)
In Bethlehem we’re just killing time
Paying union dues
Holding protest signs’
This is sad to see. Similar situations have been happening in other towns where local economies are devastated by the closure of industrial facilities. Sadly, many people will move away. There will be many ancillary effects, such as the severe decline in local property tax revenue to support public services.
And sadly, if that community is able to recruit new businesses to create new jobs, it is very likely the new jobs will pay a lot less than the jobs being lost.
People’s lives devastated - Environmentalists high 5 each other.
Environmentalism is just an excuse these psychos use to excuse their vile evil hatred for humanity. I’ve known enough environmentalists to know that most are anthrophobes. Their true goal is mass murder. Environmentalism is just the excuse they wield.
And they already really really big fans of the Denver people already. /s
So many small towns in the West are dependent on one major source of income. When it is gone the towns often lose most of their population.
I knew people who worked on those plants when they were being built.
Page AZ plants are gone.
Nucla is gone.
APS and PNM plants in New Mexico will soon be shut down.
Thankfully our plant, far east of there, built about the same time as the Craig plants and Page plants, is still running with modifications brought on by Obama.
There are several other big coal fields in the West, which were planned to have a mine mouth power plant built. all those have been canceled.
"Moffat County is made up of millions of acres of public lands..."
I know that plant.
Sad story, good summary. Thanks for making a good effort.
Living close to the state of Colorado, we used to really enjoy going there to see the mountains as well as many other fine attractions. Now, it seems the liberals are taking over & ruining everything. Is it the people moving in from California or other liberal states? I don’t know. I know this, tho...I don’t even want to cross that state line anymore. All the joy of visiting a once beautiful state has been pretty much sucked out of it now. It’s a shame, but the politicians in Denver & a few other places seem to have been at the bottom of it. Somebody must have voted for them though, so who is really guilty?
How about getting rid the the nutcase Governor and their congressional reps?
This is close to home for me. My mother grew up on a ranch owned by my Grandfather in Moffat County about 15 miles south of Craig. She said that coal was all over the place and could just go out and get it when they needed it. Politically Moffat is a Republican county and always has been except in 1992, when the county voted for Perot. I am not surprised the Communist executive branch behaves like this