Posted on 10/21/2017 8:35:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
For those of you who haven't heard, Mary and I moved from Florida to a tiny town in West Virginia to be closer to our parents. We are experiencing wonderful culture shock. I am not a fan of the winding mountain roads. Supermarket and hardware stores are over 20 miles away. And yet, we unexpectedly love our new heavenly haven of Americana.
I am one of around 20 blacks in the population of 500. Everyone from the town hall to the bank, post office and country store knew we were the Marcuses who "bought the white house".
Virginia brought us homemade bread. Ron brought us corn from his garden which he promised to be the sweetest we have ever eaten. Ron was correct. Old men Charlie and George stopped by to welcome us. Peggy knocked on our front door bearing a gift of a homemade apple pie.
Mary purchased 3 huge real tomatoes for $2 from a road side vendor's garden. The old man told Mary she could take as many tomatoes as she wanted. From another small vendor, we purchased locally raised grass fed ground beef. The sales lady said it will taste 10 times better than supermarket's.
Handyman Randy is a hunter. Randy said he'll keep us stocked with venison. I thought Randy would be impressed that a member of my family hunts with a bow and arrow. Randy explained that he prefers using a gun because if the hunter's arrow does not hit the perfect spot, the animal will suffer. Wait a minute, Leftists tell us that hunters are coldblooded SOBs who don't care about animals. Randy obviously cares. While installing our ceiling fan, Randy said he needed to get more "wor." Mary eventually realized he was saying "wire".
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Absolutely wonderful. So glad you posted this.
Welcome to country life. What you describe is the kind of country I live in here in Missouri. Good, salt of the earth folks. So glad you made it there, much better quality of life.
President Trump is thrilled with West Virginia. At a boisterous campaign-style rally Thursday, Trump extolled the state’s strong first quarter economic growth — growth he said few expected.
“We had 3 percent growth in West Virginia. I wonder how that happened,” Trump told cheering supporters. “Three percent growth. West Virginia is leading the average. When was the last time we heard that?”
And indeed, after years of economic stagnation, West Virginia has strung together two positive quarters in a row: In the last quarter of 2016, the state’s economy expanded at a 1.9 percent annual rate. In the first quarter of 2017, the gross domestic product grew at a 3 percent annual rate, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
At the same time, West Virginia’s unemployment rate has tumbled, from 6 percent last June to 4.6 percent this June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only two states — Wyoming and Indiana — have experienced a faster decline in their unemployment rates.
Coal... Its a big part of the Trump energy policy.....
The USA will become world dominant in Coal, Oil, LNG and raw materials for the various chemical industries
West Virginia had second highest GDP
WASHINGTON - West Virginia had the second highest growth in gross domestic product (GDP) of any state in the country during the first quarter of 2017, and Gov. Jim Justice attributes the climb to the bounce back in the coal industry.
Mining grew by 21.6 percent nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce report, contributing to growth in 48 states. That made Texas, West Virginia, and New Mexico the three fastest growing states, growing at 3.9 percent, 3.0 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively.
"I know the coal business like the back of my hand and the current spike in the coal market was one I saw coming, and our state Legislature refused to listen," Justice said in a news release. "If you go back to the October 2016 debates for governor, I said that coal would rebound and that our severance tax collection would go up. Some people laughed at the time, and they were totally wrong."
The governor's office also reported that a new Reuters analysis shows U.S. coal exports have increased more than 60 percent this year due to soaring demand from Europe and Asia.
Delivering promises Bigly.
.. Its the Trump energy policy.....The USA will become world dominant in Coal, Oil, LNG and raw materials for the various chemical industries
(PS...Not to be late to the party...Fracking is alive and booming in West Virginia)
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This AM I was thinking about the way too many immigrants we let into the nation without them receiving necessary Judao-Christian teachings and knowledge of the US Constitutional principles that made this nation great. Instead they get inundated with toxic, rotgut, godless LIEberal doctrinal propaganda that enslaved them to DemoRat power grab to herd their sheeples at will. I’m convinced that a modicum of heaven on earth would be a nation chock full of godly Christianity minus the lying leftist toxic agenda.
Great post. Well worth reading the full article. A good and honest America is still out there, we just generally don’t ever hear about it from the media which is always pushing the horrible, the divisive, and the bizarre.
That’s the way things ought to be. We’re all Americans.
I see it was an article from “American Thinker”. Thought it was you - what can I say - I’m at work so I’m pretty good at scanning rather than reading the whole article. :)
I had a lady come into our hospital to pay her bill just yesterday - she had a stroke and said her town had gotten together and raised $5000 towards her medical expenses, consider she lives in a town of 120 people. Yes, America, there are still good people around.
I do miss Lloyd’s post here on FR.
Well, that made my morning. Thanks for posting!
Americans are freaking AWESOME! We donate not because we are compelled to by the government, but because it is the right and honorable thing to do.
This guy has it all wrong. West Virginia is a terrible state. Bunch of redneck, uneducated, gun-totin’, inbred hillbillies.
I would advise not even visiting - don’t even stop for gas. Just drive straight through when crossing the state.
Sarcasm aside, we moved here a little over two years ago. The author is spot-on. My only complaint about the state is you can’t get a decent cup of coffee. What they call coffee is slightly tinted brown water. But they make up for it with their corn-based beverages.
I solved the coffee problem - I don’t like coffee!
And the best part of country living..
Everyone waves at you as drive past each other
Bttt.
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I’m going to go out on a limb here and make some wild ass guesses... I’m guessing he doesn’t wear his pants around his ankles, stand on the street corner and shout “Fuck da Po-lice!” I’m guessing his car stereo doesn’t register on the Richter scale. I’m guessing his street is not littered with crack pipes, condoms, and 40 oz empties and he doesn’t sit on his front step telling “Whitey” he has no “bidness” being there. I’m guessing when he interacts with Police he says “Yes, Sir” and “No, Sir” just like they do him. I’m guessing that if he does witness a crime he cooperates with the Police to help apprehend the perp. I’m betting he wants to be part of the community and it shows.
Now we can all enjoy his articles again. Life is great.
“Randy explained that he prefers using a gun because if the hunter’s arrow does not hit the perfect spot, the animal will suffer.”
A friend who hunts has a different take on it; he was almost shot by another hunter during shotgun season, and will only bow-hunt now because he was almost killed by someone who didn’t mind the expense of a shell to “recon by fire” (shoot at an unidentified noise - my friend). Good arrows cost enough that nobody would loose them recklessly; they’ll clearly see exactly what they’re shooting at.
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