Posted on 08/15/2023 1:41:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Deep in the hills of Appalachia is a land of beauty laced with heavy dr*g abuse. In some of these communities up to 50% of the 20-40 year olds are addicted to hard dr*gs creating a generation of children being raised by grandparents. Join me and the locals as we travel into the hills of Eastern Kentucky to show you the gravity of this situation, and also introduce you to the people who are creating positive ways out.
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His YouTube channel is fantastic. I love his vids on the Amish among many others.
Over and over you ask the young adults why they don't move out to places where there's work. They tell you that some do, but the ones who stay do so because it's all they know and they're more comfortable with what they know even if it's poverty.
“The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”
So who will do the raising when the grandparents are gone?
Welfare will provide a subsistence life style. Drugs are cheap, due to China and the cartels. Education level is low.
I lived there for a year. I left.
However, I must comment the majority of West Virginians ARE NOT caught up in this. They are good people and conservative.
No jobs worth very much is one answer.
The critics of these people say become a nomad and prosper.
Of course the natural resources are still their if capitalist producers want it, but right now those capitalist are into woke issues and climate change.
Add funding a drug rehab center, to capitalists funding woke ideology and climate change apocalypse.
Bkmk
If you could start from scratch and design the United States all over again for a 21st century world, most of Appalachia would never be settled. It would be mostly national parks and resort towns.
In colonial times there was very little appeal to this region except for harvesting timber. It was difficult to farm there, and the Appalachian Mountains were seen as a barrier that had to be crossed to get from the port cities on the Atlantic Ocean to the prized fertile lands of the Ohio River valley. Once the area defined by the current contiguous 48 states had been settled, it was only the coal mining in the Industrial Age that kept Appalachia on the map.
What, we can’t say DRUGS now?
Congress passes laws that kill good paying coal industry jobs. Then Congress accepts bribes from Big Pharma to flood the area with insane amounts of Oxycontin. Then Congress fought tooth and nail to keep the border open , flooring in even more drugs. Then the communists legalized marijuana.
And then they stand back in slackjawed amazement as everyone is stoned.
Real Amish? Or Free Republic Amish?
Add funding a drug rehab center,
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According to the article, that should be:
Add funding a dr*g rehab center
Maybe You Tube has a problem with it?
😂😂😂
He has vids of both. But I was referring to the real Amish.
Yep. Loved his Amish segments. Learned a lot.
China is buying what coal that is being dug.
The Opium Wars 2.0.
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