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In reply to the discussion: Rural Americans don't want job training [View all]NCDem777
(458 posts)if they had sympathy for others. And not just when a bad thing happens to them. For example:
When urbanites, particularly in places like Cleveland and Pittsburgh, were saying "Hey maybe we should make outsourcing harder," in 2003-2004. Did they have sympathy for us? Fuck no. Most rural Republicans told us that we should stop being lazy, get off our butts and learn new skills. Stop expecting the government to protect our jobs and revive dying industries they said. Move to where the jobs are. They said that companies should have the freedom to outsource jobs and screw consumers. They were secure in the knowledge that the bad stuff would only happen to the big immoral cities. Outsourcing and corporate corruption (like say, and I'm just using an example from my backyard, an energy company concealing, with the help of the state government, a coal ash spill that contaminated wells and rivers) would never happen in "God's country."
And then it did.