Posted on 09/18/2006 5:32:03 AM PDT by Hydroshock
Wow, tough crowd, huh?
Oh the horrors!!!!!!!!!! 4 states have unemployment rates higher than the national average. Who would think. And since when is 5.4-6.3% unemployment considered high? Answer, since Bush got into office.
I lived in the rural Ohio River Valley for a while back in the rah rah Clinton years. It was no better then. This is Appalachia. It's always been poor and it always will be until the people change their mindset.
By and large, higher education isn't valued or considered attainable--getting on "permanent" at the mill is most peoples' greatest aspiration. "Permanent" meaning getting into the union. But the unions have been pricing people out of their jobs for years, so there are fewer and fewer union jobs.
Until these people get out of the mindset that the union will take care of them, and failing that, the government will take care of them, many will be poor. Who is president has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I do agree that we will see more articles like this as the election appraches. And the MSM, of course, will act like poverty in Appalachia is something new since January 2001.
Hydroshock is like willie green without the intelligence and trains.
You mean this mindset?
"the yooon-yun says so"
"My daddy was a Democrat, so I am too, even though I'm pro-gun, anti-abortion, anti gay marriage, and pro-family"
"Whut educashun?
What???? Gas prices are $2.16 at the BP in Louisville, KY according to Gasbuddy.com. The Ohio River Valley contains most of Ohio, Kentucky, W VA, Indiana and Illinois. If you look at gasbuddy.com homepage, you see Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the top 10 cheapest states for gas.
What a sack of lies and propaganda.
Come on! Don't you want the economy to collapse?/sarcasm off
lol. This is their idea of a fair and balanced survey of opinion. lol.
Seems? ....Reality will NOT be allowed to intrude the "sky is falling" lock on the democrat mind....
"At a nearby diner, waitress Jeanine Gordon, 32, who makes the minimum wage, mused about her latest trouble —"
I think this is misleading. Servers who work for tips are paid a meager wage by their employers. It is different than the 'minimum wage'. The bulk of their income is from tips. Also, this is nothing new, raises haven't kept up with prices since the '70s as far as I remember. I am lucky to get a one or two percent raise now and then.
I spent 3 days around Wheeling, WV 2 weeks ago. I became physically ill at what I saw. I have never in my life seen such horrible poverty and despair in the eyes of the people. The town is gutted and old factories line the streets like burned-out shells. I saw street after street of homes with no windows, and broken down walls and roofs filled with the poor who used to make a living there. We got lost and ended up in this neighborhood and I saw a woman who obviously was trying to recover from a stroke. She was walking the street with a walking cane and a shriveled hand in a house coat. Her eyes pierced my heart. With the collapse of the steel industry and so many others, the manufacturing base which fed our people and offered hope to our citizens, what's left in its wake is what I've just described. I don't want to hear a defense of one party or another. But what I would like to hear is some Washington politician meeting with the Wheeling city officials and putting a plan into action that would start to correct what supposed free-trade has wrought. Any takers out there Washington???
Pelosi's "rank-and-file portrays an economy under Republicans that leaves behind the poor and hinders the middle class."
Gosh, so does Sidoti's story. I wonder how that happened. This should really be covered under campaign finance laws as a contribution for Dems.
There won't be any takers.
The fact is, you can't sustain manufacturing when wages were propped up to 3 times market levels due to unions.
You can't sustain manufacturing when there are guys in another country willing to do the work for a tenth of our minimum wage. The unions, such as they are, aren't even a factor in the global economy.
There's plenty of blame to go around. The unions aren't the only ones motivated by greed. That being said. We have a situation here that needs addressed. This is America for God's sake.
True enough. But what other option do we have? "Forcing" companies to only manufacture here will, among other things, drive prices up and totally wash-out any benefit to higher wages.
We have a situation here that needs addressed. This is America for God's sake.
They used to say the same thing in every ghetto in every major metropolitan area of the country. Then after awhile they just stopped saying it.
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