Gov. Kasich waives food stamp time limit for rural whites, forces urban minorities to go hungry

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49. Lost my father

to cancer at age 66. I don't know if it was the Agent Orange from Vietnam (Grunt in Big Red 1) or from the Asbestos he was exposed to in industry (steel mill Coke plant where he worked as a mason) that he received a small pittance settlement for....but it was the first case of cancer in his family in nearly 4 decades.

Sorry for your loss.

I'm originally from the southern tip of the state. A "River rat". Moved from there to the Dayton area 20 years ago for work and then left there for another state 5 years ago. Dad begged me to get out, as I was offered an engineering position at the steel mill he worked at after college....I honored his request. Shame what has happened to the ignored southern part of Ohio. My MIL passed away from cancer 3 weeks back. We were "back home" and the wife and I had a long discussion regarding how poor,depressing, and run down our hometown is. We had a population of 30K in my younger years when I lived there, now it's around 11K, meth and prescription drugs have taken over and the people are so beat down that they've lost all hope.....fucking depressing. Growing up we called it "Little Korea", today "Little Detroit" would probably be more accurate of a description.

The last jobs have left (coal) and the locals doing all the work on barge repair, construction, etc have officially seen nearly every job where one could earn over $12/hr vanish....and make no mistake about it, if one can land a job in S Ohio for over $10.00-$12.00 an hour then they are envied by others. Depressing I tell you.