Appalachia; A History of Planned Poverty

actutally the gov't doesnt sponsor coal at all. Obama hates coal. If you havent noticed that everyone is venturing out to different ways of making energy: wind, solar, etc. The gov't regulates coal to the point where its hard to get any work done. Coal actually supplies a ton of jobs so stop hatin.

@2010bennett but clean coal technology is being pushed. Clean coal technology is currently being widely tested in the US and other countries.

Coal companies pay virtually nothing into the public coffer as compared with Sarah Palin's Alaska where natural resource extraction, oil in that case, pays a royalty into the public coffers that is then used not only to fund public infrastrucure expenditures but also a guaranteed yearly income to each citizen of Alaska. Last year it was over $3200 for man, woman and child. For a family of four that amounted to $12,800. Do you hear the sound of economic justice calling?

Matthew 7:13-14
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Amen

oF COURSE THE POVERTY LEVEL WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT WITH SS INCOME...
Government is behind the coal diggers ~ not the workers who live  the Appalachia life...
Thank you Spadecaller

Is it your theory that Social Security benefits would have lifted these people from poverty?
If so, why are most of the people in this area still in poverty, even though they are getting welfare benefits?

and our banks waste the money, and we with our taxes in Britain and the U S A bail them out , yet our goverments let communitis like Appalachia live in poverty for their gain, i am getting older dont trust bankers and dont trust polatitions, sorry to hear about this plight ,we should make our pollatitions do somthing, trubble is how !!!!!!
love is all
trevor sizzle

Thanks for something to think about.