"dave weil" wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:29:48 GMT, wrote:


"dave weil" wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:14:28 GMT, wrote:

Naive and unrealistic thinking (at best). The coal mining areas of
West
Virginia are not known for their stellar economic performance. You're
arguing that a father with two kids like you should choose not to work
at what is likely the only game in town because it isn't safe.

I'm arguing that nobody is forced to work anywhere they don't want to.
If
you don't think the main employer is providing a safe workplace, tehn it
is
time to move.

I guess that those coal miners in West Virginia should go work for
Hewett-Packard.

Assuming they are qualified and HP is hiring. :-)

Maybe they could move to SoCal. I'm sure that it's simple for them to
do that.

I reject the notion that people have to work in some place because it's
all
there is.

Reject it all you want. However, life isn't as simple as, "Gee, I
think I'd like to get another job".

Especially in rural West Virginia.

Then get out.

When Boeing got ****ed on the SST it put 50% of Seattle out of work. While
I wasn't working for Boeing, I was also at that time out of work, so my ex
wife, a freind and myself pooled our money and bought a cheap truck and
loaded everything in the world we owned into that truck.
We decided that California had more job opportunity and less rain, so we
headed down the road. On the way, we stopped to see some friends who had
moved to Oregon and visited for a while. During that stay our truck caught
fire and everything we owned burned. Somehow, without public assistance or
any form of government handout of any kind, we managed to make out way to
California anyway and find employment and prosper.

So if it's harder to get out of a mining town than it was for me to get out
of Seattle and into California, it bloddy difficult, but still not
impossible.

Nobody has to work or live anywhere they don't want to.