Posted on 05/13/2014 4:31:07 PM PDT by mandaladon
Jackson (United States) (AFP) - Jim Feltner's days are empty. He is a poor man in the poorest county in the United States and lives off government aid. But the Kentucky resident has nothing but scorn for the head of that government, President Barack Obama, who has made the fight against economic inequality one of his battle cries.
Feltner sits in a plastic chair outside his ramshackle mobile home, surrounded by rusty cars and car parts. He has no television.
People around here, he says, are "just surviving, barely. I know, because I'm one of them."
A victim of two heart attacks, he lives off disability checks, and $105 a month in government food stamps.
Feltner voted for a previous Democratic president, Bill Clinton, but now says: "I will vote for anybody against Obama.
"I don't care who runs against him, I'll vote for him. I don't care if it's a Democrat, a Republican, an Indian, a Pakistani, even a Frenchman!"
The first reason is coal. He accuses Obama of dooming this mining region of the Appalachian mountains with environmental regulations. Since 2011, 30 percent of the mining jobs -- around 4,000 -- in the region have vanished. Competition from natural gas is another factor in the decline.
"Here's what he said about the coal business: 'go ahead, build your coal fired energy plants, we will shut them down,'" Feltner alleged.
"Is that something for a president to say?," he added. "He's got a problem with the poor people."
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What makes you so sure?
“With an electoral college, there’s no incentive to take the trouble to vote if your guy is gonna win the state. A nationwide presidential vote tally might provide that motivation.”
You’re espousing Her Thighness’ position with your popular vote argument.
If the popular vote will decide, then why should someone in New Hampshire vote? After all, the candidate who gets the votes of NYC, Chicago, LA, Houston and Miami will most likely win it all. Oh, those are all very liberal cities, aren’t they?
Good thing this guy isn’t from CA...Otherwise the hypocrites would come out enmass, saying he should have saved, got a better job, refused government welfare, etc,. etc...
Florida for sure, PA and OH not likely.
A perfect map of how to divide America into two countries. The sooner the better.
too bad many Freepers didn’t have that attitude. They chose not to vote and we got Obama by default.
Except for the automobiles, these administrations, (YOU NOTICE I SAID ADMINISTRATIONS)have driven away all our heavy industries from these shores. Oh, the unions helped it along, but mainly it was the government, starting in the 1970’s, that drove the heavy industry away from our shores. They started with small regulations, at first, then, when they realized that they could get away with it, their regulations became more and more onerous, and eventually, our heavy industries left for better business climates.
Why Florida? Hillary even beats Jeb Bush in FL.
Maybe my mood is too black but I don't see a way out, baring revolution.
Civilization dies when the country becomes “EFFET”. This has happened in the Greek empire, Roman empire, The Byzantine empire, and all other empires pre-ceding this one. In each one of those past EMPIRES, the male population decided that they can’t get their hand “DIRTY” any more, and hires people from other countries to do their dirty jobs for them.
"I don't care who runs against him, I'll vote for him. I don't care if it's a Democrat, a Republican, an Indian, a Pakistani, even a Frenchman!"
It is now 2014. This poor man could have voted against odinga in 2008, and again in 2012.
You can't fix this kind of stupid, and all of us pay for it.
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