I’m going to disagree. He’s blaming a breakdown in family for economic ills. Obviously, the economic ills could be blamed for a breakdown in family. Some will argue that families do just fine in much poorer cultures. That’s true. However, they live in an economy that matches their income. Americans are being driven downward economically, and they are trained to view that as failure. That doesn’t take into account the real impact of living in a $60,000 economic zone while now making only $20,000.
The bottom line is that he makes a bit of a dumb claim that they are to blame for not following the jobs, the reality is that those jobs STILL exist. They just exist elsewhere.
And it would be better to have them here than it would be to have them overseas.
“The bottom line is that he makes a bit of a dumb claim that they are to blame for not following the jobs, the reality is that those jobs STILL exist. They just exist elsewhere.”
The mining of coal has left Appalachia and is not coming back it exists nowhere else in the USA. These folks have to move elsewhere to find employment of any type.