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6. We spent half of 2012 in SW Texas, near Midland/Odessa

Thu Feb 14, 2013, 12:27 AM

Feb 2013

where ignorance and racism still flourish. Despite the booming oil and gas industry and low unemployment, poverty is evident and shocking. There are well paying jobs in the oil fields, but many jobs are minimum wage. This is Walmart, fast food, and convenience store country. In this part of Texas, Obama is a dirty word. I watched commercials for Ted Cruz's senate run and they were blatant crap about standing up to Obama who only wants to end oil and gas production, even though production has been higher the last 4 years than it has been for 30 years, "that damn Obama!"

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