[mountaineer]

* European investment supports nearly 25,000 jobs in West Virginia.
* EU companies are the top international investors in our state.
* The 15 EU nations bought roughly $900 million worth of exports from West Virginia businesses in 1995.
* Europe is our state's number one export market. source

I would challenge your generalization. West Virginia has a lot more than dirt farmers and coalminers.

[Mr. Bird]

I did not mean to disparage West Virginia or West Virginians by referring to "dirt farmers and coalminers". I was alluding to the idea that West Virginia is home to good, honest, hard-working people who do NOT deserve the government they are getting. While you seem to be impressed with EU investment in your fair state, you may want to take note that the federal and state governments employ 20 percent of your labor force; the EU "supports" around 3 percent. You're right that your not coalminers and dirtfarmers. One out of every five of you is a bureaucrat.

[WVNan]

I would challenge your generalization. West Virginia has a lot more than dirt farmers and coalminers.

Shhhhh. L. don't tell everybody our secrets. Do you want all the undesirables moving here? So far we've managed to keep our paradise relatively unpopulated.

[jackbill]

West Virginia has a lot more than dirt farmers and coalminers.

Oh, we're aware of that. It takes a whole lot of folks to man all of the "Senator Robert Byrd (fill in the blank)" facilities. Unfortunately, they are all "government workers" sucking off of the taxpayers' teats.