re: #130 HappyWarrior

The thing is when the steel companies, coal, or whatever leave towns like Johnstown, Beattysville, and Uniontown. There’s not much in place to replace them. And that creates unemployment and poverty. That in return results in resentment. I;m not naive like I used to in that I think we can return all industrial jobs but we need to be able to help towns like these when the companies decide they’d rather take that work overseas because they’d rather pay Chinese or whatever employees less than American ones.

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Billy Joel - Allentown