[quote=pri_dk] [quote]You know, all the money that’s gone into “saving” West Virginia coal mining could have been spent on establishing 3 or 4 industries there. That’s not “thinking out of the box”. It’s just common sense.[/quote]
No, that’s common folly. We cannot just “establish” an industry in some location out of thin air.
Throwing more money at the state is not going to help.
You can shoot the messenger, but you can’t change the validity of the message. WV has no bright future. For it’s residents, I suggest they accept the reality or leave (like I did.) Just please don’t ask for more money.[/quote]
pri, I agree with you 100%. This is EXACTLY the kind of thinking we need. Sometimes that “saturation point” is reached….and with regard to mining in WV is has been…long ago.
But that’s how Massey and others have managed to get their way on all this stuff – by pushing the myth that this is all West Virginians know how to do, and the legacy needs to be preserved. And, of course, does anyone look at the actual number of jobs all of this incredible devastation is providing.
My point wasn’t that it was necessarily possible to establish another industry there. It was that I would much rather have seen that money go toward that than to MTR. Hell, put it toward saving a threatened industry in another state. Anything besides MTR. I’m so horrified by it that, 10 years after I first learned about it, I still find it hard to believe that this sort of thing can happen in my country with the full endorsement of legislators from both sides.
