Rich in the things that matter.
Right on, Daffy.
How’s that Great Society working? Not Tooooo Good!!!
I moved from my 45 year home of Seattle to a small farm in central KY last August. I am living the phrase "I gave up a high standard of living for a high quality of life." I LOVE it here. And you can live below the poverty line and still live very well indeed.
And then there is this:
Then according to leftist/Marxist ideology crime should be rampant.
I didn’t like the article. While I don’t have a romantic view of Appalachia, the article goes out of its way to make the people look dirty and lazy — the captions under the first two pictures are “filthy” and “slovenly.” Then, of course, the comments portray a degree of prejudice that is disgusting. If they were comments about a black ghetto, they would be removed or reported as abusive but hey, we’re talking poor whites so its OK to say things like “why are these people allowed to breed” or “I bet you won’t get a full set of teeth among them.”
I didn't notice anywhere in the story where it mentions what the poverty line is?
Nor did I notice where it mentioned how many of these people are government dependents or how long they've been government dependents.
HOLY COW! I just went to the article. The first and third images are VERY much what the interior of my nearest neighbor’s single wide looks like, only my neighbors is MORE messy.
He keeps his lawn meticulous, though.
The guy that built the house we bought (It’s about four years old now), placed it on the property so he could not see the trailer. We’re on a plateau and the single wide is in the valley about 80 feet below, about 400 yards away. His kids are really nice. We do bike rides together.
This country grows half of all pot and 90% of all Moonshine made in the USA. It pays no taxes on that income. Recently, charity clinics have closed their doors, because of how well the people of the region were doing financially.
IMO, even if you don’t have much money or an education, you still don’t have to live like a filthy slob.
There were times in my youth when my family was struggling & my dad out of work. But the house & yard was always spotless.
I have been to Appalachia several times. It amazes me that people would live like this.
It’s almost like there is some generational malaise that govern the lives of people who live there. People there seem not to give a damn about much of anything.
So, what’s the difference between this, and any of a dozen Democrat-Run, inner-city hell holes I can name?
OH YEAH, no random drive-by’s. The welfare culture is damning to both blacks AND whites, folks.
Second in an article by a UK paper. I’d like to see a US paper do a couple of articles on poverty and trashed cities in the UK.
originally an invite to a 2005 Corporate Party.
Obviously waiting to be drafted into L B Johnson’s WAR ON POVERTY while still drawing a gov’t check.
Proud Georgia hillbilly here.
Thanks for posting.
My gosh, I thought the War on Poverty (1968) and all the billions spent since then were suppose to solve this. /sarc.
FUBO and the DemocRAT party.
“Abbreviated title: America’s poorest county: Proud Appalachians who live without running water or power in region where 40% fall below poverty line
...Rich in the things that matter.”
Indeed.
What’s the crime rate here, vis-a-vis places like Detroit or Baltimore?
Why is that?
If this is truly “America’s poorest county”, shouldn’t the crime rate also be the highest, because (as we all know, right?) “poverty causes crime”?
In any case, a good video by Darrell Scott:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69BwNVtyCKs
You’ll never leave Harlan alive...
The poverty line is just a number. If your cost of living is less than your income, you will be OK.
Jed Clampett: What do you think Pearl? You think I oughta move?
Cousin Pearl Bodine: Jed, how can you even ask? Look around you. You live eight miles from your nearest neighbor. You’re overrun with skunks, possums, coyotes, and bobcats. You use kerosene lamps for light. You cook on a wood stove, summer and winter. You’re drinkin’ homemade moonshine, and washin’ with homemade lye soap. And your bathroom is fifty feet from the house. And you ask should you move!?
Jed Clampett: [ponders all this] Yeah, I reckon you’re right. Man’d be a dang fool to leave all this.