Trump gives America's 'poorest white town' hope

[riversedge]

My guess is that good job will not return and their benefits will be reduced!





Trumponomics
Trump gives America's 'poorest white town' hope


http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/06/news/economy/donald-trump-beattyville-kentucky/index.html?iid=ob_article_hotListpool



by Heather Long @byHeatherLong February 6, 2017: 7:48 AM ET


Can President Trump win the War on Poverty?

Donald Trump is already a hero to many in eastern Kentucky.
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Hope Trump will bring the jobs

"If you got a job here in Beattyville, you're lucky," says Amber Hayes, a bubbly 25-year-old mom of two, who also voted for Trump. She works at the county courthouse, but is paid by the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (K-TAP), a form of welfare.

Coal, oil and tobacco made Beattyville a boom town in the 1800s and much of the 1900s. Locals like to bring up the fact that Lee County -- where Beattyville is located -- was the No. 1 oil-producing county east of the Mississippi at one time.

"Growing up in the '70s? Yeah, this was the place to be," says Chuck Caudhill, the general manager of the local paper, The Beattyville Enterprise. He calls the town the "gem of eastern Kentucky."

Today, the town is a ghost of its former self. The vast majority of Beattyville residents get some form of government aid -- 57% of households receive food stamps and 58% get disability payments from Social Security.

"I hope [Trump] don't take the benefits away, but at the same time, I think that once more jobs come in a lot of people won't need the benefits," says Hayes, who currently receives about $500 a month from government assistance. She's also on Obamacare. ..............................

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. what a stupid article

Just more morons repeating their "hope" that the Great White One will magically put coal in the mines.

[guillaumeb]

2. Hayes obviously fell for the Trump con game.

And will undoubtedly fall for the next Trump con game as well.

And where are these jobs that the bubbly 25 year old mom hopes will magically appear?

[Warpy]

3. They only think those other people will lose their food stamps and SSD

because everybody knows they need those things and those other people never do.

They're in for a terrible surprise.

[SoCalDem]

4. Is he gonna buy it?

and make them all his caretakers?

[bluedye33139]

5. 40% of the children live

outside their parents custody because of drug involvement.

And the media is constantly telling us that we should care more for these poor white people.

The ethics of personal responsibility are constantly preached by Republicans, while Republican voters exhibit absolutely zero personal responsibility over their own lives.

[Ohioblue22]

6. a whole town of ryan's moochers and takers

[bravenak]

7. Sad. They just bought their own tickets to a worse hell.

[Golden Raisin]

8. I wonder how many of them also voted for Mitch McConnell?