[RunItUpTheGut]

As long as coal is on "life support", so will the economy of our area. While we're on life support, other areas are competing in the Olympics.

East Ky., & West Virginia CANNOT take another Presidential administration that doesn't support coal.

There is NO TYPE of major industry in my home county of Johnson. NOTHING!!!!!
American Standard went out of business about 7/8 years ago. Now, there is NOTHING!!!

There is enough reclaimed strip mines that we could have several types of industries move in and set up shop, but it hasn't happened yet.




Johnson, Floyd, Martin, Magoffin, Lawrence...... the list could go on.
People that have recently graduated high school or families with young kids are leaving as fast as they can because there are no jobs. Most of the people I know that have left for the city for work all say the same thing..... "We hate to leave, but, there are no jobs for us or jobs for our kids."

I hate to see my hometown turn in to a Ghost town.... but I see it coming like a freight train.

To be honest pulp the future doesn't look bright for hazard or anything east of there.
Major industries will move into the I 75 corridor around London and Corbin long before they branch out all the way to the mountains of EKY and it hasn't even happened here yet.
If something significant doesn't happen with coal after this election I think coal for the most part will be completely washed out of the economic factors of appalachia. It will be responsible for so little if the economy it won't have any effect UNTIL it comes back. And one day it will. Hopefully we don't forget how to mine it by then.