Posted on 01/16/2014 10:49:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Does that mean they can't have guns? That would make them easier to control than they had been in the past, no?
bttt for later reading.
What a sad situation.
You have a point. Another goal is to herd them all into the metropolitan areas where they can be more easily controlled, divested of their firearms, and access even more government services that hook them on dependency.
With generational poverty, it's hard to discern what is the chicken and what is the egg.
In the Native American areas in the west (I'm most familiar with the Cherokee in OK), there are generations of drug and alcohol dependency, broken families, illiteracy/lack of education, and domestic abuse.)
Naturally, these folks are very poor. Smart high school kids are heavily courted and fought over by colleges and universities. They'd have a free ride to about any institution of higher learning they would choose. But only a few are able to break the ties that bind them to that area, even though the opportunities for upward mobility are there.
They have been through a war - Obama’s war on coal.
This pile of crap article was posted a week ago and taken apart then. The author apparently believes that the problem with Appalachia is not enough Walmarts and Applebees (seriously).
That sentence makes zero sense. Free trade is not "liberal". Appalachia did get more manufacturing that China did not get, but China has a billion more poor people willing to take $2 a day in wages that Appalachia does not have.
Asheville is moonbat central, but for the most part the moonbats are harmless.
Having moved to Appalachia I am glad for the opportunities for downward mobility that it gives me. For example, I can go sit on my friends porch in town, drink a beer and talk about things that matter.
Southern Iowa was once a coal mining center but when the RRs switched to diesel and most homes went to propane, the mines closed.
Most of the sons and daughters moved away for better jobs and opportunities, leaving behind many who had no interest in bettering themselves.
Then find out why those factories are not being shipped to Appalachia. There is a reason! Fix the problem already.
Would our states benefit economically by being able to impose tariffs against other states?
If not, why would countries, in aggregate, be harmed by free trade?
Milton Friedman, the master of economic common sense, was a strong advocate of free trade. The only objection that he took seriously was the military one --the potential loss of war-making materiel. But he proposed ways of mitigating these risks.
Not as bad in NW Arkansas. But then we have WALMART, the chicken men, and trucking companies. Business here is booming.
Jasper County is bad from what I’ve read. Poorest county in the state. Don’t know about the flatlanders in E-SE Arkansas as I’ve rarely gotten out of NW Ark except to go to Oklahoma and west of there quite a bit.
You would be shocked at the number of families in this rich county with grown adult children living at home, who claim they can’t work because they are “bipolar”. The entire family is on welfare because of it.
The casinos near here are bringing in lots of money. Our local one over the line in OK hires ONLY people of Cherokee linage, so they say.
http://500nations.com/Oklahoma_Casinos_Tribes.asp
Many years ago back in the early 1960s I was at a junk store and found a book on Tibet, with photos of how the people dressed. Very shabby. The owner of the store said he had often seen people from the area come in his store dressed like that, in rags.
That was before Walmart began to bring money into the area as Waltons was still just a mom and pop dime store on the square.
I’m here in central Wisconsin, just 20 minutes from Wisconsin Dells, the “waterpark capital”. The Dells was always looking for employees and brings in many foreign students to fill that need. People here don’t want to work for $8 and hour. A pregnant high school student or recent graduate/drop out with a couple kids is the norm. And proud Grandma will be gushing about it at the grocery store. And they all live together. One big happy family. Most mothers know how many hours a year to work to get the earned income tax credit and other ways to milk the system. It will be ugly when it crashes. And that may come sooner than you think. At one time, I worked at the local Walmart. My old friends there say as people leave they are not hiring replacements. That was always the guaranteed job up here. What is the world coming to when Walmart isn’t hiring.
You live near Siloam Springs? I visit family there twice a year. Beautiful country.
***You live near Siloam Springs?***
Just north of there in the country.
Our city has been the fastest growing in NM. Eight years ago we were winning awards for the Best Place in America to Raise your Children, and Best Place in America to Start a Small Business.
For the past five years we have been stagnant. Very little growth. Large companies in town sending their jobs elsewhere. Small retailers closing. Few new businesses opening. Property values down about 30% from eight years ago. Lots of people moving out for “better” jobs.
Nowhere nearly as bad as in Appalachia, but not good.
Say what you will of Gov. Perry, but we have new businesses and jobs every day, all over.
Could you show it to me, I did a title search, as I always do.
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