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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Ish who wrote (59871)11/5/2000 6:31:01 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Check the number of workers at the center who come from Alabama. I have no idea why it got located here, but it is not an industry that draws on local workers.

A carplant was deciding whether or not to put a plant here a few years ago. One of the key issues was whether or not there were enough qualified workers. It was a sticky point because it was hard to promise it. Gladly, the plant came and is doing well, providing some very decent jobs for people.

You misunderstand what I meant by lo-tech. I come from farm people. I love that we're covered up in farms now. Which you know, though, is rather hi-tech these days.

But to deny a problem or react to it's being brought to light with denial or false pride does nothing to address nor solve it. Doing that is one of the reasons that so many here still live in such poverty.

Ride the backroads sometime. Don't look at the bucolic splendor, or think how quaint and old-fashioned. Talk to the kids who are in the eight-grade at 15 and dropped out by 16. Look at the leaks in their roofs. The teeth that are rotting and will not get fixed.

I would never, and have never, denied the good, and beautiful, qualities of Alabama or her people. But I want something more than the hopelessness feel.
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