People here in WV were hit really hard when Joe closed the pipeline at the beginning of his administration.
A lot of those people had good jobs under Trump with the oil patch for the first time in decades. When Joe closed that one pipeline, it had a ripple effect through the industry. Overnight, huge swaths of people lost their jobs in the oil industry in WV and many other states and there wasn't much else to fall back on. It didn't get much newsplay, but the people on the ground here sure felt it. Guys who were out of state making good money, finally getting back on their feet, suddenly had to call their wives to tell them they were coming home with no job and no prospects in sight.
As a fellow West Virginian, I would agree with you. I believe we have been done with the democrats (Manchin excluded because someone is voting for him, not me) for a while. They always do what they can to give us the shaft really starting with the Clinton crime family. Bill Clinton stood in our community center and said he was going to help the steel industry and did quite the opposite.
I'm fortunate to have been insulated from most of it, but I feel for those around me. Not a lot of local options for anyone to support a family these days. People are barely hanging on.
People here in WV were hit really hard when Joe closed the pipeline at the beginning of his administration.
A lot of those people had good jobs under Trump with the oil patch for the first time in decades. When Joe closed that one pipeline, it had a ripple effect through the industry. Overnight, huge swaths of people lost their jobs in the oil industry in WV and many other states and there wasn't much else to fall back on. It didn't get much newsplay, but the people on the ground here sure felt it. Guys who were out of state making good money, finally getting back on their feet, suddenly had to call their wives to tell them they were coming home with no job and no prospects in sight.
That's not something people forget easily.
As a fellow West Virginian, I would agree with you. I believe we have been done with the democrats (Manchin excluded because someone is voting for him, not me) for a while. They always do what they can to give us the shaft really starting with the Clinton crime family. Bill Clinton stood in our community center and said he was going to help the steel industry and did quite the opposite.
I'm fortunate to have been insulated from most of it, but I feel for those around me. Not a lot of local options for anyone to support a family these days. People are barely hanging on.