?We are so desperate for jobs

Peter Schwartz — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:50:26 +0000

In reply to Robert Reich: Red-state voters are paralyzed by economic anxieties

“We are so desperate for jobs in West Virginia we don’t want to do anything that pushes industry out.”

This, I fear, is it. The social issues are simply the icing on the cake. They get people excited without getting them anxious about their livelihood.

Getting them excited about economic issues also gets them anxious about losing their livelihood. Understandably, they don't want to rock that boat. So they veer away.

And feeling that they're in the same boat as wealthy people is a kind of comfort.

There was a WV blogger on one of the MSNBC shows who put it well when he said that WV is the best test case--the poster child--for what happens when corporations have total control of government. Coal and government sleep in the same bed; have babies together; there's no daylight between them.

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?We are so desperate for jobs