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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

legislative memory and the community of Winchester remembers Smokey and the Bandit more than they remember the history of legislation that has kept them where they are.

I will take this article legislatively point by point. The author plants little stories within but never gets to the real issue which is WHO MADE THEIR LIFE THIS WAY?

The first even the author sites is the Rhinehart Tire Fire. The whole point of Superfund legislation was that so business would pay for the communities they spoil.

As of 2002, Virginia was scheduled to get $16,ooo. The site has cost 10 million to clean since 83. The local newspaper who defended George Bush as a "uniter" on cultural issues claims the site is nearly cleaned but environmental advocates disagree:

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=2165&Page=2&subnav=&project=&colorback=ffffff
http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/020723/Area_fire.asp
http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/land/site.tcl?epa_id=VAD980831796#threats


Now, in exchange for liberal advocacy of an issue that SHOULD be close to the hearts of the inhabitants of Winchester, how are liberals rewarded whether they have a latte in their hand or not?

We are called "treehuggers." We are told that we don't respect the notion of private property (Rhinehart had a bazillion tires on his private property that despoiled the entire community.

Our advocacy of this issue DIRECTLY benefitted the people of that community. What do they remember? That we desegregated their schools and stand for protecting the rights of all Americans including gay people. They CHOSE a culture war over their own air and water.

Nationally we at least number a quarter of white U.S. workers, thirty five million in all by the government’s own shaved-down numbers. Nobody knows for sure in a nation that calls millions of $7-an-hour janitors and marginal people working “contract labor”, with no insurance or benefits, “independent businesspersons” and “entrepreneurs”.

That may be true, but a janitor in the "people's republic of berkeley" makes 6.75 per hour if they are getting minimum wage and get's 5.15 in Virginia. That janitor in berkeley might still belong to a labor union making far more since California is not a right to work (for nothing) state and Virginia is.

He discusses the ire of living without health insurance or working at 67 in order to afford healthcare.

What did Virginia calle her? Hitlery? What does Winchester think of Jesse Jackson? An advocate of unions?

Yet most of the poor people in the United States are white (51%) outnumbering blacks two to one and all other minority poverty groups combined.

There are far more white than black people in America, that's why. Proportionally there are more poor black families, but the author doesn't hesitate to play the race card even if doing so is EXACTLY what has resulted in the poor staying exactlty where they are.

Consequently we find many books/studies focusing on ethnic minorities, but few credible ones about our defiant native homegrown poor. To my mind, it is impossible to be tenured and have street cred, but then I am just a prejudiced redneck prick from Winchester, Virginia, otherwise referred to as “Dickville”.

3 words "Nickled and Dimed." : It's short and the author doesn't use any big words like that commie Susan Sontag.


Consequently, liberals are much more familiar with the social causes of immigrants, or even the plight of Tibet, than the bumper crop of homegrown native working folks who make up towns like Winchester. Liberal America loves the Dalai Lama but is revolted by life here in the land of the pot gut and the plumber’s butt. Can’t say as I blame them entirely, but then, that is why God created beer. To make ordinary life more attractive, or at least stomachable.

Again see my first point. HIS FUCKING COMMUNITY BENEFITTED FROM OUR ADVOCACY!!! How gaddamn hard would it be for him to tell us that?


They cannot understand a career limited to yanking guts out through a chicken’s ass for the rest of one’s life down at the local poultry plant (assuming it does not move offshore). Being born working class carries moral and spiritual implications understood only through experiencing them. It comes back to street cred.

Gee that's funny. Tyson and Wal-Mart were sponsors of Arkansas' right to work laws. Who voted for them on the ballot when the time came due?

A good start on healing this rift might be this: the next time those on the left encounter these seemingly self-screwing, stubborn, God-obsessed folks, maybe they can be open to their trials, understand the complexity of their situation, step forward and say, “Brother can I lend you a hand?” Surely it would make the ghosts of Joe Hill, Franklin Roosevelt and Mohandas Gandhi smile.

Sure it would. And I'd gladly sit there being called a Jewish dyke or getting lynched for offering my support.

Before I am asked the more specific question, “What the fuck do you think middle class liberals should do then?” I’m gonna answer it. ORGANIZE! Quit voting for that pack of undead hacks called the Democratic Party and ORGANIZE! Howard Dean is just another millionaire Yale frat boy. ORGANIZE!

Reminder to the author, Joe Hill got the death penalty in the mindset prevalent then that is once again making a comeback. Howard Dean MAY be a frat boy but HE WAS THE ONE TALKING about WHITE GUYS WITH CONFEDERATE FLAGS ON THE BACK OF THEIR TRUCK . I personally objected to the code talk but it's simply proof that the author has not only his dick-in-yhe-dirt but his fucking head.