J. D. Pendry

Have you ever been poor? I am asking that question relative to material wealth. I know poor in that sense. Growing up in the hills and hollows of Southern wild and wonderful West Virginia in the mid 50s to the mid 60s most people knew some degree of poor in that regard. Nowadays, that area is referred to as the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields and usually by West Virginia politicians and television talking heads who have never ventured outside of Morgantown, Charleston or Huntington. It is quite interesting to ponder. It is akin to the people who have never left the confines of Washington, DC, New York City, San Francisco or Chicago yet they feel the need to save the rest of us from ourselves. I have visited each of those great American cities, some by necessity for longer periods than I would have chosen to otherwise. It is not the rest of us that needs saving – at least not from ourselves.

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Contributed by J D on August 10, 2008 at 04:02 PM in J D Pendry | Permalink

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