[Redneck]

You made a great point, a lot of other areas do benefit from mining, but it's at our expense. Do you really think people in tampa know what TECO does, some do, but most dont. A lot of the coal money that people around here work so hard for goes to other states and makes other men/women rich. It's just ironic that so much money is created out of this area, but as the list CIG107 provided shows, it doenst stay here.

How did Belfry get that big state of the art football stadium? If I'm not mistakin, two coal companies donated the money. What about all the schools in the area that recieve money from coal companies. I know there's a coal company that sponsors Paintsville, I'm sure Jim Booth sponsors Sheldon Clark etc.