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I have seen license plates from every state and Puerto Rico in Williston, North Dakota--people who came for work, and found it. While the oil boom may not be felt coast to coast, there are people in Pennsylvania ordering lumber to make modular housing to ship here, folks in Texas and Oklahoma machining oil tools, truckers from all over bringing materials in. The effects extend far beyond western North Dakota.

It is nice to live in an area that is a beacon of hope in a dreary world, and a real change from 1982 when half the population there packed up and left, when you couldn't buy a job, homes sat empty, and many lost all they had. I have seen both sides of an oil boom, and despite the growing pains, this is the good side.

There are other regions of the US with similar resources. The chief obstacle to the development of those resources is in Washington, D.C.

Hopefully, that will change, and we can start putting this country back together, without shipping more treasure elsewhere to power that recovery.

" Pennsylvania ordering lumber to make modular housing "

Been dreaming or figuring in my mind how to build cheap, faster, stronger modular or some other type of housing my myself.
Don't own any property at this point so it's only in the dreaming - figuring out stage.
Another way is pour a simple concrete slab depending on local building codes and put up I-beams as the main structure and use SIPS or metal studs as walls.
Won't have to worry about mold in a house mainly built out of metal and concrete.

Yes, your correct.... Government Kills Jobs and Productivity... Government should just get out of the way...
The E.P.A should be cut from the federal budget and sent to the states to decide on how to protect the environment.
I do believe our generation is more capable to be good stewards of our environment than those generations before us either because they didn't have the technology we have or education, or they didn't care.

I believe in a common sense approach to both protect the environment and at the same time allow productively growth and jobs growth.
What I do not believe in the heavy handedness and agenda of the Liberal Environmentalists agendas, that's NOT the way to go.
We have a chance now with a new administration to show the liberals how it is really suppose to be done.

Job Growth, Productivity, and be responsible taking care of our environment without killing jobs or America's economy.
Both with being able to drill for oil.. but being responsible about it.. allow for productivity to rein freely without government hankypanky.

LIFE ! LIBERTY ! And the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS !

GOVERNMENT ? GET THE HECK OUT OF THE WAY !

Love the Metal Erector building Set / Sim City / Building New Business / Drilling for Oil / People rebuilding America feeling here... love it...

Seeing people putting up walls for a new building for a business.... or putting down the new carpet for the opening of a NEW house.
A Oil worker's face as he brings home the first big check his family has seen in months seeing the smiles and happiness on his wife's and children's face as he tells them to get in the car that they are going shopping and eating out for a change.
A trucker singing along on the road as he delivers a load for a huge contract that he has not seen in years and knows he won't have to worry about food being put on the table that month.