Has Joe Manchin ever attempted to help the impoverished areas of

[diehardblue]

West Virginia bring in industry that would revitalize the areas?

[617Blue]

1. It's coal or bust for Dirty Joe. nt

[marble falls]

2. If they can drag their sorry butts to mines, it's all good.

[Scrivener7]

3. They vote for him because he's "good for coal." So why would he?

[betsuni]

4. +1

[Scrivener7]

5. At about 30 minutes, the guy explains it: "Trump for the coal and Justice for the coal.

If you start bringing windmills or gays in here, everyone would be out of a job."

He says Biden is "against the coal" and is going to cause them to lose a hundred thousand jobs.

Interestingly, that guy considers Manchin to be against coal. Which means all the propping up of a defunct industry Manchin has done is not good enough for him.

[Midnight Writer]

11. I think he said windmills and gas. I took it to mean natural gas replacing coal.

[Scrivener7]

12. Lol! Could be!

[sir pball]

6. Came here to say this, they don't WANT new industries to revitalize the area.

They want COAL. They want their children to toil in the pit same as Daddy and Pawpaw did. I'm honestly convinced if you offered an industry that paid 5x what mining did, for 4 hours a day of desk work, they'd turn it down. Damn Scots-Irish masochism.

[Scrivener7]

7. In the film, the guy says he interviewed a mine manager. The manager said he can't find

kids to work 50K to 80K jobs, even if they don't require a college education and offer training. This film was posted yesterday and a poster quoted a former WV resident as saying that anyone with get up and go has got up and gone.

And don't miss the guy's statement: "If you start bringing windmills or gays in here, everyone'll be out of a job."

The blindness to anything but coal for industry is real, but it's also steeped in other blindnesses.

[lark]

8. He's totally in it for the money, nothing else. n.t.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Broadband

Its something I actually agreed with 45 on - but of course. . .

Biden got it done!

For me it will prove one thing: they refuse to change.

Years ago when I worked at Global Crossing we would say: Stay away from the square states and Appalachia. Throwing goid money away.

I believe we will be throwing good money away . . . I hope I'm proven wrong.

[Celerity]

10. Fascinating video, amazing how young some of them were and they already seem, at only 18 to 23,

to be living lives of fully grown adults and speaking of their peers (or slightly younger) as 'kids'.

The staggering epidemic of drugs is a huge takeaway as well. Almost unbelievable percentages.

[Hortensis]

13. Sure. No good reason to imagine he's some kind of tRump scum

who for some appropriately peculiar but certainly malign reason ran as a Democrat in a deep-red state.