Meet the rural Americans who fear they’re being forgotten

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  • Hear from rural voters in Ashtabula County, Ohio, as they describe the most important issues to them.

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  • @DjinnV
    @DjinnV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +697

    Proverb: "The trees kept voting for the Axe, because the handle was made of wood, and they thought he was one of them".

    • @jnhg9808
      @jnhg9808 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      That's Americano for ya.

    • @K71090
      @K71090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Damn! That’s a good analogy.

    • @neveklund3267
      @neveklund3267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Perfect proverb. You caught the essence of the problem.

    • @anbesaghebreab1467
      @anbesaghebreab1467 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      woooooaaaaaooooooo i think you are god

    • @Marchant2
      @Marchant2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like that.

  • @crystalmills258
    @crystalmills258 6 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    Major lack of self awareness. They all seem to be on public assistance just like those they hate. Sad

    • @jessegipson3600
      @jessegipson3600 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      crystal mills dumb ass

    • @ibane7682
      @ibane7682 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Slightly different situation. The "people they hate" (immigrants) have acknowledged the futility of their prospects in other countries and come here seeking to advance themselves in life. These rural communities have relied on low skill manufacturing jobs that used to be good jobs when hair dryers and dish washers were new technology. Now they don't have the ability to see with clarity their prospects for life working low skilled manufacturing is bleak. They do not make the connection that the "people they hate" make, which is that their situation is bad and they need to do something to change it. These people feel entitled to making good money for work that is not valuable anymore. And they're angry at the world because now they have to adapt to the changing times. This is really the most pathetic display of American entitlement.

    • @ADRHYN
      @ADRHYN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      crystal mills

    • @ericunderwood6728
      @ericunderwood6728 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      crystal mills ever have to be there...not fun... I didn't have to....I was there due to sheer awnwryness .... not fun ...clean or sober....

    • @brianwilliams9462
      @brianwilliams9462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      crystal mills, you were not paying attention closely. The Trump voters (like Republicans generally have before Trump) generally had a harsh view of public assistance. The non Trump voters were much harsher on the jobs that paid little and the lack of concern for the poor and working class. I detest Trump and everything he stands for. But this is the kind of attitude that alienates many working class folks from the Democrats.

  • @meanvecktor1900
    @meanvecktor1900 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    This type of thinking is why they will continue to struggle and be left behind.

    • @robertpreskop4425
      @robertpreskop4425 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      This is why small towns and rural areas will never recover from their past economic decline. They refuse to change and diversify.

    • @westonmeyer9664
      @westonmeyer9664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@robertpreskop4425
      Without Democrats stealing from the rest of the country the inner cities would be closed down.

  • @iainhowe4561
    @iainhowe4561 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "Why should we help addicts?" "Why should we help the environment?" "Why should we help the jobless?" "Why should we care about urban problems?" and then "Why is nobody helping us with our problems?". I get that desperation causes this mindset, but do these people listen to themselves?

  • @marctouss1862
    @marctouss1862 6 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    donald trump speaks "american".. the rest of us speak english..

    • @marctouss1862
      @marctouss1862 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      why do you not know its stupid to say " i speak american"..?

    • @MrFrankqu58
      @MrFrankqu58 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      did you not know that the English people speak one dialect while the USA speaks another dialect!!! It is not the same!!!! I guess that is why we speak american?! England believes that we speak the wrong English!

    • @kaym7704
      @kaym7704 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      MrFrankqu58 And you do realize that in America there are different variations of “American” English. Stop being a moron....it’s English plain and simple. American is not a language and to use it in that way just shows how utterly stupid you are.

    • @MrFrankqu58
      @MrFrankqu58 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It goes to show that Kay does not know how to read! Look at my comment carefully, I said English people from England said we speak the wrong English, what is it that you do not understand. You call me a moron, now I say, look in the mirror, KAY, and call yourself a moron!!

    • @kaym7704
      @kaym7704 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      MrFrankqu58 Ugghhhh...people like you are the reason why the US educational system is a joke. Go ask an english 8th grade teacher what it means to speak American and I’m sure he’ll/she’ll gladly enlighten your poorly educated self.
      I bet you think we use American math here and they use English math there too.

  • @ms.g4401
    @ms.g4401 6 ปีที่แล้ว +491

    I feel nothing! Minorities have had to make do all their lives. These folks need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. That's what we were told.

    • @perrywilliams4593
      @perrywilliams4593 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      MS. G yes.. that is exactly what we were told!

    • @mynameisnotimportant2854
      @mynameisnotimportant2854 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      👏🏿

    • @anthonyahearn5736
      @anthonyahearn5736 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      What happen to Trump's infrastructure plan?

    • @chokinonashes61
      @chokinonashes61 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Anthony Ahearn
      Did you believe he ever had a plan? His little publicity stunt got carried away with his bigoted world view..

    • @mynameisnotimportant2854
      @mynameisnotimportant2854 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      MS. G exactly!!! Let their so called light-skinnedness” and their “High IQ’s” get them out of their shithole.

  • @braedengiaconi7277
    @braedengiaconi7277 6 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    Why would you complain about the imperfections of the social programs you need and then vote for the party that doesn't want to expand those social programs?

    • @janetwhite7786
      @janetwhite7786 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Maybe because they know that those programs are a trap as hard to get off as opioids.

    • @whyputaname
      @whyputaname 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That never made sense to me..
      That heavy set women in the light blue shirt was on disability and I was wondering considering she looked healthy why she was on disability.. And yet she was bashing those on disability... Its interesting.. I was on disability(SSI) back in the 90's because I was diagnosed with cancer.. I got better and found a job and got off of disability...

    • @dogguy8603
      @dogguy8603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@janetwhite7786 exactly, it would be like dumping gasoline on a fire

    • @jdlc903
      @jdlc903 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They voted for Obama

    • @mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona
      @mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@janetwhite7786 so the choice is to stay in the hole they're in now?

  • @mrzeegrr
    @mrzeegrr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Living in West Virginia I've noticed that the smart people leave. They know there is no future in Coal.

    • @aslater5
      @aslater5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      mrzeegrr Yes, that’s my whole point about these rural areas. The smart ones leave. That is why the IQ keeps dropping there.

    • @dogguy8603
      @dogguy8603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@aslater5 iq isn't genetic

    • @quirkyqwerty2935
      @quirkyqwerty2935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The irony is that these people who are pro coal end up spending more on medical bills because of black lungs than if they were to get another less paying job at Walmart

    • @terrycaudill4171
      @terrycaudill4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is the reason you are still there?

    • @8Oblivion_Lost8
      @8Oblivion_Lost8 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dogguy8603 yes it is.

  • @heyheyhey40
    @heyheyhey40 6 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    So they are just sitting around waiting for corporations to come to their towns and give them a job!

    • @heyheyhey40
      @heyheyhey40 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Toms Friend Kake I completely understand that however, it’s still a dependence on someone else. These companies and factories are owned by people who are in business. Unfortunately these business owners don’t care about your livelihood. They just want to function in the best way to make the most amount of money. I for one, will NEVER allow my entire livelihood to be dependent on someone else to give me a job. That is not what the American dream is about. Get out there! Get college degrees, and learn a new skill! Don’t wait for another big employer to come into your town! This is not something that the government can teach people or give them!

    • @heyheyhey40
      @heyheyhey40 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yes, I understand that it’s difficult. But a corporation is not required to give you a job.

    • @fox286
      @fox286 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Joe T exactly.
      You are 100% correct.

    • @keithraines298
      @keithraines298 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The government also ether payed or regulated company to move out. It more about UN agenda to make it unsustainable to live in rural parts of the country.They want to make a lot of America no go zones. They want people to live in smart cities and reduce the population and control it. California if going though that right now. The old being destroyed with regulations and sustainable housing being built. When they cut off water to farmers do you think they where able to pay debt on there farms. Take a look what the Obama and Clinton's done to farmers that had uranium they sold to russia. They sent in the BLM with regulations and tried burning them off the farm. The Bundys in Nevada the judge dismissed case and let them out of prison. The government doesn't have a right to steal, murder and use economic terrorism on it's people.

    • @nickxc15
      @nickxc15 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Joe T What else are they suppose to do?

  • @VibeVixen02
    @VibeVixen02 6 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    I feel bad for kids that belong to parents that don't want them to learn beyond the basic skills required because it makes them "uncomfortable." You're setting up these kids to fall behind

    • @viejocamion
      @viejocamion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      They want to keep them ignorant.

    • @FreyaEinde
      @FreyaEinde 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      They should be teaching them different languages so they can own businesses. Learn accounting and computer skills. Invest in permaculture practices. Dang.

    • @robertpreskop4425
      @robertpreskop4425 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Those kids will be the welfare recipients of the future.

  • @redrock1963
    @redrock1963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This type of thinking blames Obama for the decline in saddle manufacturing.

  • @metrodonkey8093
    @metrodonkey8093 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    keep voting and fighting for billionaires and hoping they will save you

    • @CrazyNormie3457
      @CrazyNormie3457 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everyone votes for rich assholes, not just the shrinking middle class.

    • @GoodCharlotteMonster
      @GoodCharlotteMonster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The choice is between one billionair or another billionair. What do you expect them to vote for?

    • @janbittner1465
      @janbittner1465 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GoodCharlotteMonster The guillotine...

    • @terrycaudill4171
      @terrycaudill4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How stumbling President Joe working out?

  • @surferdjnj
    @surferdjnj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +359

    It's disappointing how most of these people don't understand the impact globalization has had on their own communities, or the opportunity that green manufacturing might provide. Not one of them said anything like, "We need to be re-trained, we need another path forward as the economy and country adapts to the effects of globalization and renewable energy."

    • @36742650885
      @36742650885 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      surferdjnj yea like all the “Green jobs” Obama was talking about when he was in office ? My neighbors dog created more shovel ready jobs than he did.

    • @anthonywillis7634
      @anthonywillis7634 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And that sir seems to be the issue. Don’t sit on your ass complaining, get up and upskill or retrain! More importantly America is stuffed because of this spiteful attitude about taxes. I think people need to remember that taxes are also paid, for the privilege of living in a secure and stable country. Shut the hell up wanting to dictate in that spiteful manner who gets what from that tax. People need financial support. Broaden welfare and ensure money is being spread around creating a stimulus to small business, which in turn creates jobs. People on the whole don’t complain about corporate welfare enough and the trillions thrown at them to waste! It certainly doesn’t filter down. Use welfare as a stimulus, which also decreases crime and violence and consequently the strain and cost on prison system. Americans have been had for far too long and need to bloody start another revolution or something!

    • @annastarr2043
      @annastarr2043 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      surferdjnj They live in the past. They are angry. They can't imagine another way of living. I.e. education, training programs etc. I lived in Ashtabula, I know their attitude. Stuck in the 70's much?

    • @brandoncaldwell95
      @brandoncaldwell95 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Being that i have to spend 50k in education to end up getting a 20k a year job. Ya no. Why i quite, especially as the crap i was being "taught" i already learned first hand actually teaching the teachers. Thats pathetic. Then i get bashed and prevented a job as i dont have a degree yet know more than and piece of paper will tell you. Now, tell me the logic of "training" when i can school you in performance and knowledge? Just because a piece of paper you make more than me by a couple thousand. yet ou hold ya more bills than i do. Those "green jobs" wont do shit. They are not logical in a rural community. They will soend more time and money in transportation costs, either it be electical or vehicle wise, that it logically/cost effectivly doesnt make sense. Rural communities are being left as jobs move to a city. They are with no opprituniities or can they afford to move. Besides their ways are forbidden in a city where your taxed to death, and told where to fart even graded on it smelling. Thats sad, and i refuse to live in those situtations.

    • @dallastaylor5479
      @dallastaylor5479 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Snipe Stud00 what? Well if you think you are going to get a 20k job with an education you are picking basket weaving. I got laid off from my 15 yr job, moved (not far), got my education, got a great job and was able to retire at 55. It's not that hard.

  • @randyjax09
    @randyjax09 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1009

    “If you come to America, learn to speak American.”
    WOW. She really just said that. 🤦‍♂️

    • @crisbf2470
      @crisbf2470 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Randy H Speak American or English, güey? Tell me something, Randy, if if if you go to other countries do you learn to speak their language before going there? It is people like you that has this country in this state of affairs. Tarado.

    • @randyjax09
      @randyjax09 6 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Cristina Briones Fourzan
      I don’t think you understood the context. I was criticizing the woman in the video who said that statement. Hence the quotations.

    • @alfr1
      @alfr1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Best comment, easiest to understand. If you came to America from Botswana or Argentina or Austria, why would you expect Americans to speak their languages?

    • @artificialavocado9652
      @artificialavocado9652 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Ugh I cringe when I hear speak "American." I don't think I ever heard someone say it seriously like that though.

    • @jcalas
      @jcalas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      alfr1 There is no language named "American", in the United States English is spoken, just like in Botswana. And Argentina is also in America.

  • @douglashogg4848
    @douglashogg4848 6 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    The good paying factory(union) jobs are never coming back. Those young enough to be retrained, learn new skills and move to the coast. The others good luck, you’re going to need it. For what it’s worth, stop voting against your own self interest.

    • @Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong
      @Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I agree about voting against their own interests but telling entire communities to just teach themselves new skills, get up, and move, is insane. You sound like a conservative.

    • @GreaterAntilles-wn2ts
      @GreaterAntilles-wn2ts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      10 months later you couldn't be more wrong. Lol

    • @darylp8564
      @darylp8564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Travis Devos : How about an example, of how he is wrong? Surely someone who is as bright as you must consider yourself...could do that much.

    • @GreaterAntilles-wn2ts
      @GreaterAntilles-wn2ts 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@darylp8564 here you go there fat boy straight from the fake news itself so you can't deny it 450,000 manufacturing jobs since he took office put that in your crack pipe and smoke it you f****** loser!

    • @TheProcrastinator6
      @TheProcrastinator6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@GreaterAntilles-wn2ts more minimum wage jobs, incredible!!

  • @Dr.Aqueous
    @Dr.Aqueous 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    There's a profound lack of accountability in some of these people. They are definitely preyed on by politicians. They have definitely been taken advantage of by corporations. But they also have to take some responsibility for the trajectory of their own lives.

  • @keineahnung5793
    @keineahnung5793 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    These people have been in this country for generations,I wonder if any of of them have a high school diploma.

    • @cn5007
      @cn5007 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      u sound dumb like high school diploma gets u anything like come on they give high school diploma to retards nothing towards retards but it is facts

    • @cn5007
      @cn5007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yes but alot of times america cares more about other countries and immigrants then a us citizen born

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Defensor It was these type of people that built the USA out of the wilderness, out forests. I think it’s sad what has happened to them.

    • @bohemianchic638
      @bohemianchic638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      KeineAhnung U.S. statistics show that 37 million americans can't read , write or do basic math can you see why they're unemployed?

    • @jdlc903
      @jdlc903 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ooo look at you.if you are so great why didn't you stay in your own country

  • @shocktonic
    @shocktonic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +430

    How can you blame Obama for the decline of the coal industry? You can’t stop advancements in science and technology

    • @yournamehere1935
      @yournamehere1935 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      MarcusTv The GOP blames Obama for bad weather. Of course it's Obamas fault they refuse to learn new skills to better their lives.

    • @gregghanson6095
      @gregghanson6095 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @brianwilliams9462
      @brianwilliams9462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      MarcusTv, very true, and coal is an archaic, dirty energy source which should be in decline. However, the places that have relied on coal for decades have not been assisted with a viable alternative. The places where coal is in decline (by market forces as well as by government initiatives) should be assisted in transforming their economies. This has not occurred.

    • @gregghanson6095
      @gregghanson6095 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      brian, agree

    • @andrewsayler4812
      @andrewsayler4812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It's really doesn't make sense when you look at the timeline. Most of the decline in coal jobs happened from 19800's to the early 2000's. The Obama administration didn't see anywhere near as sharp of a decline as the Regan and first Bush administrations.

  • @ciscoche1
    @ciscoche1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Learning another language is an advantage. WOW.
    These people pointing fingers at everything besides themselves.

    • @dogguy8603
      @dogguy8603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Cool, but people who come here should be required to learn English

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Learning another language is going to be a requirement thanks to people like you. Quebec force the entire nation of Canada to adopt french as their second language because they refuse to adopt to Canadian culture at large. Get ready for that here only with a multitude of languages.

    • @dogguy8603
      @dogguy8603 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@angelcitystudio lol wh6 are you so obsessed with an accent lol, also many of them do read and write at a much higher level than thoes in liberal areas, especially california which has the worst literary rates in the country

    • @unbonfrancophone1539
      @unbonfrancophone1539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@josh18230 In what world you live, bilingualism in Canada is only true in Quebec where more than half of the population is bilingual while in the rest of Canada not even 8 % of the people are bilingual. Stop being mad you angryphone.

    • @unbonfrancophone1539
      @unbonfrancophone1539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@josh18230 and also what does "they refuse to adopt the canadian culture at large" means ? Isn't quebec and french part of the canadian identity and thefore culture ? Your arguments are stupid considering that the two languages are in the constitutions and that french canadian and english canadian are considered founding people of canada.

  • @Jametris
    @Jametris 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    I wonder why that woman wouldn't want her child to be fluent in multiple languages. It's not like children that know multiple languages are statistically at an advantage than children that don't.

    • @dang2320
      @dang2320 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      My mother tells my brothers and me to always speak Spanish in front of our kids. A person who speaks 2 languages is worth 2 in the job market.They will learn English at school.

    • @barakaobama7558
      @barakaobama7558 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Bro, I'm jealous that I can't speak multiple languages. I'm trying to learn Portuguese now.

    • @blackcatg.9592
      @blackcatg.9592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wouldn't like that, I learned English on my own and only cause I wanted to an needed to.
      If you don then don't, focus on other things like engineering architecture or somthing that requires a lot from you that way you can succeed as well.

    • @altha-rf1et
      @altha-rf1et 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would but not forced to by the government

    • @LARKXHIN
      @LARKXHIN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The biggest detriment to middle america are middle americans themselves.

  • @stevo728822
    @stevo728822 6 ปีที่แล้ว +198

    I believe it does actually state in the US Constitution that you can practice any religion you choose to.

    • @yabadabadue7889
      @yabadabadue7889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      stevo728822 1st amendment

    • @tophers3756
      @tophers3756 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Accept conservative Christians think that gives them the right to extend that to the rights of others in the public sphere.

    • @carnissan6728
      @carnissan6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      stevo728822 , yes practice your own religion in your own home, but America was formed (our constitution) on Christian values. Our country works because we all do until others what we'd like others to do to us. Ours is a values system. It's the glue that holds our society together, so that everybody else in the world wants to live here. Ours is an immigrant country but they all integrate and work and give back to America. That's why it works.

    • @carnissan6728
      @carnissan6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Topher S , no, it doesn't mean we can force others to worship as Christian's do. We all have free will. Without it, all our good intentions and worship preferences mean nothing. Right?

    • @redriver6541
      @redriver6541 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Actually it says the state shall adopt no religion....it doesn't say how society of a majority religion will treat you if you worship trees, the sun, or nothing at all.

  • @stifledvoice
    @stifledvoice 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Hard to forget about people you never thought about in the first place.

    • @JRPGGUY
      @JRPGGUY ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lol

    • @inamorata966
      @inamorata966 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wait. Don't you mean it's EASY to forget about ppl you never thought of in the first place?

  • @luisojeda682
    @luisojeda682 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The conversation sounds like a lot of regret, in my opinion the lost part of the conversation is educational levels of rural America. The question we should be asking is do Americans have adequete educatiion in order to understand social and political dynamics.

    • @neveklund3267
      @neveklund3267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There is a problem. It is they, as conservatives, who will resist improved education; because the improved education leads many people to conclude that conservative ideas are failing modern America.

    • @MrBabujinga
      @MrBabujinga ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They do. Thing is...Humans hate learning...apart from the miracles in East Asia( do they really question policy that much?) Where else are people educated enough? I think even in western Europe it is just a question of a leadership that is not hell bent on thieving...I doubt whether that 'imagined' educated threshold is achievable
      ( having everyone educated at the same level is Communistic utopia)...Humans look for a way to stop the pain of learning and therefore after attaining a certain level (yet learning is life-long)...they stagnate and just become jaded and heavily indulgent in blame-shifting/buck passing! Unlike comps, humans are expected to keep updating until the brain atrophies; that is life-long learning; it makes you accept that you don't know it all...the Ego hates that disposition!

  • @sircharlesmormont9300
    @sircharlesmormont9300 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I don't understand the woman who disagrees with having her child learn a second language in kindergarten. Aren't foreign languages more likely to 'stick' and easier to learn when they are learned at young ages? Isn't that better for her child?

    • @WorldWide2017
      @WorldWide2017 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They don't want to learn anything new. They want to go back to the 1950s. Pretty clear by the politicians they voted into place.

    • @psyche100
      @psyche100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not only that, but kids who learn two or more languages at a young age have better brain function and it may help them learn things faster as they age.

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tax paying institutions should not teach languages from other countries, America is built on the English language, our constitution is only written in one language, it is idiotic to pay taxes to teach citizens to learn any other language.

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@psyche100 zero evidence at all that that is true. There are plenty of nations with bilingual or trilingual people that have a far lower IQ rate than Americans.

    • @sircharlesmormont9300
      @sircharlesmormont9300 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@josh18230 I am not convinced that teaching multiple languages is 'idiotic' simply because our founding documents are written in a certain language. Doesn't learning multiple languages open up more opportunities for Americans and make communication with people from other cultures easier? While it is certainly useful and convenient for a society to have a language in common, I don't understand the leap from that idea to the idea that it is somehow detrimental to a society for it to provide school children with the opportunity to learn additional languages at the time in life when they are most apt to retain the information. People from all over the world learn English so that they can do business with English speaking countries. Isn't it depriving our own citizens if we don't set them up to have the same ability to seize opportunities elsewhere?

  • @nathanielcarreon5634
    @nathanielcarreon5634 6 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    They expect high paying jobs with high school education. Dream on.

    • @SplotPublishing
      @SplotPublishing 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Those used to exist, and could again, if we just demand it like our grandparents did. There's literally no reason we cannot have it, except that we've come to accept that we can't.

    • @wigwam4119
      @wigwam4119 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      i just finished third grade. can i be manager now?

    • @carlosanzora1649
      @carlosanzora1649 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      PS Wright You either don’t know anything about economics or you are willing to exponentially increase the costs of your consumer goods. Do you know how automation works? Demand all you want, uneducated rural people won’t change the laws of economics or capitalism. If you want a high paying job get an education, position yourself in a growing field and move far away from those rotting ghost towns.

    • @bradleyjames1379
      @bradleyjames1379 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I am glad I have an electrical engineering degree and an MBA. Many of these people do not understand that those jobs were going away 10 years ago! It was just planning and waiting for the advancement of technology. I went to a program where we had to design solar-powered model cars and race them against other participants in the program. I was 10 or 11. I am 36 now. These people complain about immigrants, blacks, browns, jews, and so on and do not want to put in work. This still is a great and always will be a good country, but you look at these people and just shake your head.

    • @halo13nin13
      @halo13nin13 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      312vandal comparing tv college degrees to real degrees? a master's degree from Trump
      university or Carrington college doesn't compare
      a

  • @ctwofirst6635
    @ctwofirst6635 7 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    Who is to blame? How about the corporations that chose to move their factories abroad? How about all the folks who shopped in Walmart, etc., all that time before industry moved out - they bought Chinese goods and then complained when their jobs were moved abroad. As for coal, it's a dead end. I've known too many people who ended up with black lung when there was underground mining. You're living in the past, if you think that's where the world is going.

    • @iraqilobster2925
      @iraqilobster2925 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ctwo First make coal great again

    • @iraqilobster2925
      @iraqilobster2925 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Mygunsgoboom Cuz ppl think they deserve a living wage but have no education in a economy that demands skilled workers xd

    • @greggthunderburg7294
      @greggthunderburg7294 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You didn't mention the voters who put in these well dressed morons.

    • @dianeshelton9592
      @dianeshelton9592 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      No one is going to make coal great again, no one wants it. No mines will stay open none wants to buy it. Obama didn't create the war on coal, it's no longer needed or wanted. Send your young out to get an education in an industry that will be sustainable. Learn skills yourself that make you employable.

    • @dianeshelton9592
      @dianeshelton9592 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Mygunsgoboom how about the fact that no one wants coal any more. There simply isn't a global market for it. Obama knew this hence made it difficult to get a permit. The fact that you want to blame him is immaterial, under Trump, all hail your saviour. Dig all the coal you want, except no one want to buy it. There is no market, not even within the US for it. Many countries now run entirely on renewable sources and no country now wants to trade with Trump his word means nothing, any trading partner is now looking elsewhere to buy and sell goods so even if there was a market no country would trust Trump to keep his word to provide a consistent affordable product. The world can do without the US, the world has already in this year moved on a lot without the US every year the US will fall further and further behind and have less and less trading partners. Less and less relevant technology, and Silicon Valley with its entreneurs will go else where.

  • @peace8373
    @peace8373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    In my opinion, rural people have no concept of what super-rich means? To most the local owner of a business, that has a big house, is rich. Those people are lower middle class in a big metropolitan area. You cannot conceive of people that spend in one day, what you make in a year. So, you want to blame the government, when it is the super-rich that has done a coup d'etat on the politicians. Since they pay for the politician's election bills, they now call in the favors. Those investment people get tax rates of 15% their income to sit on their bum. You go out and work day after day pay 30% in taxes tell me how that is fair. They sold you down the road, it was not the government that twisted the arms of these people to move the factories and your jobs overseas. Trump will not help you, he just mortgaged your children's future giving the wealth of the nation to his corrupt croony business elites.

    • @aslater5
      @aslater5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, and with all of their tax breaks, they still send money abroad to tax shelters so they can scam us even more.

  • @williedawg2152
    @williedawg2152 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    These people are just afraid of change and it makes them feel better to place blame.

    • @whyputaname
      @whyputaname 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is what I was thinking.. Definitely not motivated.. Everything is doom and gloom..

    • @LDrumsOhio
      @LDrumsOhio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@whyputaname to be fair, Ashtabula County is doom and gloom.

    • @whyputaname
      @whyputaname 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LDrumsOhio It is easier to place blame than to change your environment.. Change is hard..

    • @underground9260
      @underground9260 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ashtabula county has voted for a democrat in every election since 1988, until 2016. It doesn’t matter who is in power, the area will continue to rot away regardless

  • @allenmontrasio8962
    @allenmontrasio8962 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    They have a point when they say that city people have different values than rural people. Different, however, not worse.

  • @patatoh71
    @patatoh71 6 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    Where's dem bootstraps now?

    • @humanbeing8948
      @humanbeing8948 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Never existed.

    • @luvbig41
      @luvbig41 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      They're not black so they forgot what bootstraps are.

    • @2greedy573
      @2greedy573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sounds like liars to me.... I need more proof of their actual qualifications and how they achieved that position they once obtained ..... since they're in everybody else's business ...let's put them on trail....

    • @WaxDat8800
      @WaxDat8800 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Better take some hustle lessons from the Mexicans.

    • @IndigoBellyDance
      @IndigoBellyDance 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank u, I keep saying the same thing.

  • @Shadow-nlr
    @Shadow-nlr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Has Trump moved his businesses back to the United States yet?!?!

    • @stephenlong8379
      @stephenlong8379 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      NO

    • @janetwhite7786
      @janetwhite7786 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      YES! What the hell r u talking about?

    • @thefallofthewicked5865
      @thefallofthewicked5865 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Mimi 😂😂😂

    • @katherinet911
      @katherinet911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@janetwhite7786 REally? Which ones?

    • @user-lh6uj8tv3i
      @user-lh6uj8tv3i 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, simply wearing a Make America Great Again hat, made in CHINA?! Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @fishbone3333
    @fishbone3333 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I often like to speak Spanish in public just to see if I can goad an ignoramus into confronting me, and then I pivot to perfect English and put them on blast, since English is indeed my first language.
    I really think that these "English only" hayseeds are preoccupied with whether I am talking about them. If you want to dip on my business when I am speaking Spanish, then learn it.

    • @danman9847
      @danman9847 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shh stop speaking spanish.

    • @gregorysalazar8370
      @gregorysalazar8370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do the same thing.

    • @stephenanderson1594
      @stephenanderson1594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They forgot Spanish is a European language too and speaking another language is not a crime.

  • @thehumanrunner
    @thehumanrunner 6 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    I wonder if the Native Americans told whites to speak the Indigenous language?

    • @tincaktas2745
      @tincaktas2745 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well what language since it was more tribes and not to forget they were nomads so they didn't have any country

    • @vellabella1
      @vellabella1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tincaktas2745 Any of the many languages of native people. There were many. You get the point of the comment.

    • @tincaktas2745
      @tincaktas2745 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vellabella1 ok but the point is that this is USA and you should speak English/American. Problem with native Americans is that they were nomads so they didn't have any country in which English settlers could join to. Yes there were many is true and problem is again they didn't have any country or a state. Even if Steelers learned one tribes language there are still a whole lot of them they need to learn.

    • @Cinjo6
      @Cinjo6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@tincaktas2745 Nevertheless, Europeans didn't adapt to any of cultures of the people living on this continent. Many Native-Americans were not nomads like the Iroquois Confederacy whose system of government helped form ideas for American democracy and the Constitution.
      Saying Native Americans had no country is denial or defense mechanism against guilt for stealing their land and repeatedly breaking treaties which continues today.
      If you want to do the right thing now, at least open a history book and learn the truth.

    • @JM-hl2gy
      @JM-hl2gy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tincaktas2745 You're ignorant !
      Learn the true history & facts of Native peoples
      on Turtle Island.

  • @joeldement
    @joeldement 6 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    wow, they r really out of touch with reality , fear is powerful

    • @imachangedname2978
      @imachangedname2978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Alexander Jason funny I feel the same around Hilary supporters

    • @liveitlikeitloveall2746
      @liveitlikeitloveall2746 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alexander Jason If you ever happen to come across Mark Dice here on TH-cam, check him out. Then you'll clearly see just how fucking retarded the mentally enslaved progressive is.
      No seriously, it's embarrassing seeing how stupid people in Southern California are. I'm not saying all of them of course, but my god it's bad. I didn't vote in 2016, IMO, they all sucked. But to say Trump voters shouldn't be allowed to vote without an IQ test, though you believe people who supported the most corrupt politician within the last century shouldn't have to take a test. Hell, they shouldn't have to show ID either right. Lol I mean that's saying something, I thought pappy Bush was bad but fucking Hillary is like feminazi Ashly Judd would say, "a nasty woman"
      Oh and let's not forget about that old shriveled up nut sac of a commie Bernie. The 21st century Bolshevik fighting for the people, while living out of 3 multimillion dollar mansions. Lol Yeah only someone with a giant lump of shit stuck between their ears would support that old fart.
      Anyway, there are countless videos out there, other than Dice's that show the amount of stupidity coming from the left. Ya know, the chanting SJW's, aka the useful idiot on the college campus. The BLM movement or the Antifa asswipes in the streets burning garbage cans. There's literally hours of great humor watching these indoctrinated, zombie like, retarded creatures showing the whole world how fucking stupid they are.

    • @joeldement
      @joeldement 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Paul Judkins .It is possible, Everybody has their own perspective, I Think these people are very poor and not well educated. But ask yourself this, y would a millionaire want to help, the people that he takes advantage of?

    • @schmittyhanrahan8126
      @schmittyhanrahan8126 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are advocating industrial capitalism as opposed to financial capitalism as being in their best economic interest....you contemptuous 'genius' progressive

    • @joeldement
      @joeldement 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      stop using big words

  • @YourMom-vd3dc
    @YourMom-vd3dc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is why that one guy on AskReddit who answered the question "How united is America?" said "Smart people in Metropolitan Areas vs Dumb people in Rueal Areas"

  • @Satya2btrue
    @Satya2btrue 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    You need unions! Also innovation to overcome the industry’s which are due to die. Life never stays the same.

    • @harukatakahashi8822
      @harukatakahashi8822 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let's start a union, calling every human
      It's one for all and all for one
      Let's live in unison, calling every citizen
      It's one for all and all for one

  • @davidhutchinson5233
    @davidhutchinson5233 6 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    The politicians forgot the people a long time ago.

    • @nuttybar9
      @nuttybar9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Trump didn't

    • @jacobjorgenson9285
      @jacobjorgenson9285 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Because they became fat lazy and stupid

    • @ibane7682
      @ibane7682 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There are billions of people desperate for any employment in the developing world willing to build dishwashers and hair dryers for much much much less than any American could accept for equal labor. This means we can buy cheap hair dryers from them, and focus our productive efforts into something more valuable. Trying to compete with them in low skilled manufacturing areas is not just moronic, it is completely impossible. Those jobs are not coming back to America, ever. If you want to work a low skill factory job move to China. Americans need more pride in their status as technological leaders of the world. Americans need to do the work that the rest of the world has not figured out how to do yet.

    • @01denese
      @01denese 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      True. They work for corporate America now.

    • @EmilyGloeggler7984
      @EmilyGloeggler7984 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well said. They're just wasting time on figures and getting votes and enating bad laws and mandating for everyone to follow them.

  • @jrad410
    @jrad410 6 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    "Learn to speak American" that tells me all I need to know of this group

    • @dulkoski
      @dulkoski 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you say the same of minority communities who have their own hatchet-job way of speaking english? It's all the same

    • @kellyedey5952
      @kellyedey5952 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      We have plenty of people who have moved to the UK and still refuse to learn the language even after 50 years.

    • @bpatel92
      @bpatel92 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya but thank god they know how to code

    • @kellyedey5952
      @kellyedey5952 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @R3y 1245 your ignorance is blistering.

  • @scottpeterson7500
    @scottpeterson7500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s not the politicians who ship our jobs overseas, it’s private industry that’s looking for cheap labor in other countries. Low wages, very little government regulation of working conditions and worker’s rights.

  • @deelish22
    @deelish22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    "Learn to speak American"

    • @neveklund3267
      @neveklund3267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Wonderful, isn't it. We speak American, and did not know it.

    • @nukerzerothefirst3417
      @nukerzerothefirst3417 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      do you mean speak native Indian ? america has England to thank for it's language , ps the English language ,. what I see often is Americans cant even pronounce the names of the countries they invade , lazy slang , but I do see it here also migrants come and try to change our ways to that of the country they left , and talk mainly in there own tongue , if we could only turn back time , where would you go back to ,

    • @toysoldier46552
      @toysoldier46552 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nukerzerothefirst3417 News flash, so called Native Americans immigrated here too so there's that troubling fact... smh. Do a bit of actual research before opening your mouth.

    • @nukerzerothefirst3417
      @nukerzerothefirst3417 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@toysoldier46552 and they were there long before you're lot arrived would that be correct ,

    • @toysoldier46552
      @toysoldier46552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nukerzerothefirst3417 Still waiting for a point, they still aren't Native to the Americas anymore than we are.

  • @kwamesmith4841
    @kwamesmith4841 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    No-one mentioned being retrained with a skill. It's quite interesting that they talk about personal responsibility but will not move so that they can have a better life. Further, their values are no different than anyone else. Wow....ignorance really do ruin lives.

    • @MuireKnight
      @MuireKnight 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The irony is that they are in this shit situation because the state has abandoned them and no longer invests in their area, the corporatists got rid of the unions and they have been royally shafted. Yet they still want the state out of their lives and still vote for the politicians bought by the corporatists who drove them to their misery. Yet instead of recognizing that they fall in line for whomever gives them empty promises and caters to their insecurities to make them feel good and not forgotten.

    • @ibane7682
      @ibane7682 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @ karlVyt. Back in the day, when dishwashers and hair dryers were new technology, making them came with good pay. Why? When "stuff" like this was invented in America, the rest of the world had to buy it from us. Europe was really the only developed society capable of copying our products and competition was much much lower. We exported these products around the world, "made in the USA". Now, there are billions of people in the developing world willing to work for much less than any American would accept. Today, it is economically impossible to employ an American to make dishwashers, at least for decent pay. It is not a matter of being forgotten. In today's world, this work is not valuable, because there are billions and billions who will work harder for almost nothing. Billions will do your job for less, which makes your labor less valuable period. End of story, its just basic economics. It has nothing to do with the state or the government or the politicians. These are scapegoats. It has everything to do with billions of people producing abundance very very cheaply as they lift themselves out of poverty and agrarian (farming) lifestyles. Any politician who says they can change this situation is lying for votes, playing on the hopes and fears of these bitter people. Successful Americans today are working in start-up companies producing new innovations that the world has never seen. These are jobs that can not be sent over seas. To make innovate on smart phone design today is the equivalent of producing dishwasher back in the day. These are the true American innovators. We need more people with skills that allow them to do work that the billions in the developing world can not do. This is American exceptionalism, it is the American spirit and always has been. And because America only has 5% of the worlds population, we it should be a national imperative to be the most advanced 5% in the world. This is the only way to stay ahead in today's global world, to get ahead and keep moving forward.

    • @JoeCuv
      @JoeCuv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Only of these people can figure out what skill they can learn that would let them stay in their rural setting could they ever retrain and stay where they are.

    • @carnissan6728
      @carnissan6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kwame Smith , does, not do. But you're right.

  • @JaceHarnage
    @JaceHarnage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I wonder if any one of these people ever thought about going to a technical college, or any institute of higher education, to learn about how to use the modern technology being used in any of the coal or automotive or steel industries today? It seems to me they would look to educating themselves and their children in order to keep up with these changes.

    • @toyes33
      @toyes33 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      They think being white and American automatically entitles them to have better jobs.

    • @masterpalladin
      @masterpalladin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      well if you can afford to go...or are intelligent enough

    • @l.a6273
      @l.a6273 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@masterpalladin bruh tech school an community college basically free Pell grant an financial aid basically pays for it all online an everything I got a associate degree for free basically

    • @mssha1980
      @mssha1980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The government should’ve helped made sure that those who wanted to couldve.

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@l.a6273 And you're still nothing.

  • @jeffc1347
    @jeffc1347 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    The reason these people fear they're being forgotten is because they are being forgotten. Rural life has no appeal to most people, with more and more college educated kids and less need for manufacturing they are going to want to live near a metropolitan area. And who wouldn't? What do rural areas offer to people?
    Basic supply and demand.

    • @fivestring65ify
      @fivestring65ify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @deharleyva There's no future in the past.

    • @alysa7364
      @alysa7364 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Rural areas offer clean air, clear skies to see the stars, a more integrated community usually, a slower pace of life so one can enjoy the moment, privacy, and plenty of space. A lack of understanding or respect for rural life doesn't depreciate the true value to people who do understand it and respect it.

    • @jessicaharris1608
      @jessicaharris1608 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@alysa7364 I am from a farm family so I know what clean air and star studded nights are like. Privacy and plenty of space are certainly two the few benefits of rural living. I left the rural area I grew up in because to me the star studded beautiful nights are nice to visit but I don't want to live there. It wasn't slower paced at all. Because we were so far away from civilization we had to rush to get on the road to commute or shop for the basics. It wasn't more of an integrated community either. Integrated communities were something that happened when the baby boomers were growing up. Today young people often have bizarre working hours so they struggle to find common times to be social. (Our apartment currently has 5 residents and all of us work bizarre hours. How can you socialize with your neighbors after work when you get home at 1am?) Forget about basic web access too. The closest ISP didn't want to come out that far because of low population which means that barring government investment the ISP won't even recoup their infrastructure investment. I don't want to live in an asphalt jungle but close enough to civilization that commute times are sane and I don't need to spend hours in the car driving to get my basic necessities/errands done.

    • @alysa7364
      @alysa7364 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jessicaharris1608 Thank you for your reply, Jessica. Our experiences have been slightly different in regards to rural areas but you made a lot of good points regarding things like odd work hours contributing to less socialization, poorer infrastructure, and long commutes. Some rural areas are better than others at these considerations, but rural areas are still less accommodating in general than more populated areas. It all depends on your values and what you're willing to sacrifice.

    • @mmason9836
      @mmason9836 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alysa7364 and less crime.

  • @henrymerrilees9066
    @henrymerrilees9066 6 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    “Learn to speak American” lady should learn English herself.

    • @SeanWinters
      @SeanWinters 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm sure the English understand the dialect differences between English English and american english.

    • @christophermckinney3924
      @christophermckinney3924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep that one struck me too.

    • @stephaniescott1795
      @stephaniescott1795 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is not nice nor is it helpful. I really appreciate the commentary, because it opens the door for conversation. I'll be glad when we come out the immature back and forth instead of listening, respecting and responding in kind.

    • @adamzaidi1748
      @adamzaidi1748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well it is American English.

  • @JFatzDaKeyz
    @JFatzDaKeyz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    “When you come to America, learn American” this is how you know these people have little to no sense.

    • @d.dedrick7991
      @d.dedrick7991 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @JB and Abbey You are so RIGHT, and I LOATHE Trump, but these identity politics, blind, IN-DENIAL idealists, are just as ignorant, dangerous & frustrating, LOL..

    • @EasilyAmused42
      @EasilyAmused42 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Little to no contact with immigrants.

    • @user-bf7jz3oq2l
      @user-bf7jz3oq2l 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Whats the big deal ofdemanding first generation immigrant to speak English ?the second generations born here who does not speak English? what’s the rush?

    • @felixcat9455
      @felixcat9455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I’m going to assume she knows that we speak English here.

    • @nicholaszamudio2189
      @nicholaszamudio2189 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-bf7jz3oq2l Speak American.

  • @tjmichael8773
    @tjmichael8773 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    No one is forcing them to live there. They all seem to have two hands and two feet. They can move close by to Pittsburgh or Columbus.

    • @boudica3356
      @boudica3356 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That's what I say. I moved to NYC from my little town. No biggie. Got a job, got an apt and a couple of roommates and had a good life.

    • @tjmichael8773
      @tjmichael8773 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Toms Friend Kake So instead they blame some politicians, immigrants and everyone else. Meanwhile, they shop at Walmart, buy things made in China and are shocked when jobs go overseas..No one said it is easy.

  • @johnserino6
    @johnserino6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    "I love the poorly educated!!!"

  • @TH3-MONK
    @TH3-MONK 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    You are being forgotten, your industrial purpose has been fulfilled and condemned to history.

    • @rhejamphi
      @rhejamphi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Precisely. If you're going to live on the frontier, you better have frontier skills. These people want to be part of the modern economy but are unwilling to pay the price to leave or create exports. Some of them can't leave because of the 'equity' in their home. Millennials will not be buying these homes from them. They are the last buyers and don't even know it. Bankruptcy won't save them. Only welfare and ss checks will prolong the inevitable till they die alone penniless from something entirely treatable.

  • @raimundojustbeingme5143
    @raimundojustbeingme5143 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Make America great again. How is that tax cut

    • @trex8682
      @trex8682 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We need to make America Smart Again.

  • @magnanimousknight1162
    @magnanimousknight1162 6 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    Someone should go up to her and speak in a Native American language. That is how one speaks "American".

    • @Tyrac235
      @Tyrac235 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Magnanimous Knight ... k your point?

    • @Senaleb
      @Senaleb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Natives lost the war..deal with it.

    • @cleo3254
      @cleo3254 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Natives did lose the ears but US could have honored treaties so...

    • @68macun
      @68macun 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Native American would be English since this wasn't America till the whites settlers came here

    • @mohamedbarre576
      @mohamedbarre576 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Senaleb youre a fucking idiot. Are you referring to the seven years' war? There really wasnt a "war", white people just came in stole land, killed, raped, and pillaged but ok.

  • @braedengiaconi7277
    @braedengiaconi7277 6 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    "it isn't like it used to be" because the manufacturing jobs that substantiated families in middle America moved to foreign countries. Under capitalism, the corporation is interested in the profit instead of the worker. If these people realized that capitalism is what is making their job prospects so bleak possibly there could be a better future. If workers control the means of production then there will be no jobs moving overseas since workers will control their own companies and will not make decisions averse to their interests. Instead these people support the party that wants to allow these corporations an even more free market that will do nothing for them as workers, this makes NO sense.

    • @darthstrike4732
      @darthstrike4732 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Capitalism is the best form of economic government. Anything thing else is a perfect reality dreamworld like communism/socialism. Others are just awful exe. Fascism

    • @mebeingU2
      @mebeingU2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You can't have it both ways...as consumers, we want the lowest priced 'everything'! Companies are in business to make a profit, not to create jobs. The jobs are a by-product of the effort to meet the consumer's needs. Companies will always find the lowest priced production source - it's key to their survival. With technology, product design and production can be done overseas, wages are lower. You still want the lowest priced shirt? Washing machine? What about a car? It will not stop...blue collar has gone...white collar is the next wave to go. Think about it...I'm communicating with you and potentially thousands of others and we'll never meet. That's through technology our grandparents couldn't dream about.

    • @masterpalladin
      @masterpalladin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      its cronyism/corporatism where the wealthy are left unchecked to hord all the money

    • @masterpalladin
      @masterpalladin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mebeingU2 well then tax the rich at 90% just like Eisenhower did

    • @masterpalladin
      @masterpalladin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mebeingU2 yes it sucks...but then when unemployments at 30-40% the militias are gonna have there heyday....revolution

  • @jimgreen9059
    @jimgreen9059 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Sorry, because I'm undoubtedly nitpicking, but we speak English here in the USA, not American (7:30), just as there's no such language as Canadian, Kiwi (New Zealand), British, Caribbean, nor Australian. They're all the same language with a different accent, and terminology.

    • @neveklund3267
      @neveklund3267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      An interesting side note: Although, around the turn of the century, that is at the beginning of the 20th century, there had been a significant diversion between English in America and England; that some linguists started talking about an American language. And essentially that is how new languages are born: they normally evolve from other existing languages. But modern communication technology brought the two variants of English again closer together, and discussion of the "American Language," disappeared.

    • @COBbabygirl
      @COBbabygirl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@neveklund3267 Wrong, English is our root language. As the melting pot of people from the world we have words from all the world. What we speak is very different from what was called the Kings English. Yes we speak American.

  • @johnchristensen3030
    @johnchristensen3030 6 ปีที่แล้ว +369

    rural town leaders don't want high paying employers in their town because they are the business owners and don't want to have to pay their employees higher wages.

    • @Thebuilderofthings1
      @Thebuilderofthings1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      So stop catering to blue collar, minimum wage jobs.

    • @jamesfarrell7465
      @jamesfarrell7465 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      John: think about it. If a "high-paying" employer ( IT, finance, etc.) moved to small town America they're likely not competing with the local mom & pop business for the same employees and the well-compensated jobs they bring mean that established local businesses have more customers with more money to spend. A local business owner would give anything for that to happen. Struggling small towns are constantly trying to woo companies offering great jobs.

    • @jxsilicon9
      @jxsilicon9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      federalreserve Brown
      LOL! BS! Unless you're doing farming jobs.Outsourcing ended most of that. Manufacturing went to China. Service jobs went to India.Silicon valley should be renamed H1b visa valley. If US wasn't an oligarchy. You could go after the corps.

    • @DAngelo136
      @DAngelo136 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That's not true and you know it. If anything, I could claim that it's these same people who chose "Right To Work(for less)" administrators and governments that drew factories to their states for cheaper wages. Just that now, as capitalists are wont to do, they found even cheaper wages overseas. Now it sucks to be you.

    • @jxsilicon9
      @jxsilicon9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      federalreserve Brown
      Actually they started importing prefab from China. Then go after construction companies. US is an oligarchy so that won't happen. Instead you get this inefficient attempt to deport millions.Dumbass. Construction is a drop in the bucket and still employs citizens. Ronald Reagan destroyed unions which led to mass outsourcing. Manufacturing was the worst hit to working class.

  • @angelloya6035
    @angelloya6035 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    You have to understand that 7 states of this country spoked Spanish before it was taking from Mexico. Those 7 states are some of the biggest states of the USA. So yeah a lot of people speaks Spanish here... and they will always ...

    • @chunhaylee
      @chunhaylee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And one major territory is still Spanish speaking today.

    • @DrumWild
      @DrumWild 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spoked?

    • @correctionguy7632
      @correctionguy7632 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      and what is your point? the demographics and language of those states radically change post war anyway.

    • @carnissan6728
      @carnissan6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Taken? We have back half of the land we won in the war. Plus, we paid your president for the states we kept, in gold. So maybe Mexico needs to go back to that president to see what happened to all that gold we paid him. Then maybe that old lie about the US taking mexico's land can be put to rest. Cus we're tired of hearing it.

    • @redriver6541
      @redriver6541 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@carnissan6728 yep. Their country is 3rd world garbage and they need a villian as an excuse. I'd tell them to pick up a rifle and make the changes...as we did long ago.

  • @jamaalfridge
    @jamaalfridge 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I thought it was odd that they attributed so many problems to (illegal) immigrants when they're only 1% of the county's population. It's like, you don't think they share your values? How would you know? The urban residents didn't seem to think that way as much, and they have far more exposure to them. It reminds me of that Brexit vote. The rural Brits wanted to keep foreigners (namely Poles) out of the country, but Polish people didn't even live around them, they lived around London. And what did the London residents say? That they like the Poles!
    And the urban residents don't share your values, either? How so, because they're "rushed"? Is that really a disqualifier for commonality? You said they're rushed because there are so many unfamiliar faces and they're all trying to make money, but you advise your kids to go to the city, to bust their butts and make a good living? What do you think that's going to look like?

    • @neveklund3267
      @neveklund3267 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I believe there is some truth to a difference in rural and urban people's values, but no facts where presented to show that these differences exist or what these differences are, specifically. This video simply doesn't support such a hypothesis, albeit, I think such an hypothesis will ultimately be proven true.

  • @ajeetgary9707
    @ajeetgary9707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Opposing vaccines, climate change initiatives, and universal healthcare isn't exactly helping the whole "being left behind" thing.

    • @carnissan6728
      @carnissan6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ajeet Gary ,
      Ok, that's about the research thing. Again, nobody us researching the effects of these initiatives. Just pushing these mostly crazy, destructive and sometimes deadly(current vaccine agenda).

    • @MMMmyshawarma
      @MMMmyshawarma 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@carnissan6728 Ok, you're an anti vaxxer. You're the one that's 'mostly crazy, destructive and sometimes deadly'

    • @CrazyNormie3457
      @CrazyNormie3457 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't believe these people are anti vaxxers.

  • @gX-sp3to
    @gX-sp3to 6 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    These ppl are the most unaware ppl on earth !!!!

    • @johnsullivan186
      @johnsullivan186 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You are the most unaware person on earth!!!!

  • @danceswithcritters
    @danceswithcritters 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    looks like they eat pretty good.

    • @terencequinn2682
      @terencequinn2682 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      danceswithcritters - oh they eat! But they are almost all obese, so what are they actually eating? And none can make critical judgements, nor think and evaluate in anything other than a most basic and simplistic manner. To whose benefit is that the working people of America are kept and maintained in this state? I would suggest Trump and his rich cronies.

    • @hatimabdur642
      @hatimabdur642 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      danceswithcritters they grow their on food. Lol

    • @kwikky22
      @kwikky22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They should stop eating and do their darndest not to reproduce.

  • @matthewloxton2570
    @matthewloxton2570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow they have some unreal ideas on how stuff works

  • @GabrielRodriguez-um8fi
    @GabrielRodriguez-um8fi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hmmmmm. I used to be poor but I made a choice to work extremely hard to come out of that situation. Those people have that same opportunity as I did.

  • @stevevalkos6308
    @stevevalkos6308 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Really great that Ms. McCroskey points out that not all people who seek rehab are the stereotypical "junkies with self-inflicted issues." She dispels that stereotype with her honesty. Most people would be surprised by the wide range of folk who need help.

    • @Yobachi2007
      @Yobachi2007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So what if they are stereotypical junkies...we're supposed to have frontline first responders make judgement calls on who gets to live and die when called about potential overdoses?
      Not to mention the fact that sending people to rehab is much cheaper than sending them to jail and their children to foster care; even when its just temporarily successful, muchless when it's permanent. And that's just the direct cost alone that are more costly. Then when you factor in all of the policing and effects of crime ridden neighborhoods due to drug use. Prevention and treatment is far cheaper than just criminalization, and F it, let'em die.
      Beyond the inhumanity of that retired machinist's position is the fiscal stupidity of the fact that policies drawn from his hatefulness cost tax payers more money, not less. But this kind of hate trumps logic and finances.

    • @SplotPublishing
      @SplotPublishing 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      On the other hand, she plays into the stereotype that there are "good" junkies, and "bad" ones, ones that "deserve" treatment and understanding, and ones that don't. After 7 years treating people with addictions, I can tell you, that's mostly bullshit. The doctor's scrip did NOT get her addicted. She had an addictive behavior pattern, exacerbating her genetic predisposition, a ready supply, and an excuse... just like every other addict. Her window dressing is just prettier, is all.

    • @Yobachi2007
      @Yobachi2007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good point about her addiction only being better window dressing. These people really don't take responsibility for anything. Indeed the doctor ddn't make her an addict. I've had percocet and oxycodone prescriptions before that I didn't even finish, and in one case never even fulfilled the original prescription.

  • @adityatyagi4009
    @adityatyagi4009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "If you come to America, learn to speak American." Uhhhh, okay.

    • @l337pwnage
      @l337pwnage 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You'd rather they call "soccer" by the name "football"?

  • @kevinnavarro2180
    @kevinnavarro2180 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    2:30 "You have to blame the people who voted to do that as well."
    So eight of those voters will must accept responsibility for their own votes as well.

  • @gusjackson3658
    @gusjackson3658 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So what if you are forgotten?
    What do others owe you exactly?
    Change your life. A politician will never do it for you.

  • @bryanb3456
    @bryanb3456 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I lived in a rural town for a few years but once I realized there was no opportunity I moved back to the city and have never regretted that decision. From what I experienced most people just had a poverty mindset and a high school education which in turn just complained about where they lived and the wages they made. You can't change that sheltered mindset they were born and raised with but sometimes there are exceptions to that rule. If you want change make it yourself no matter how long it takes or how old you are? Excuses and blaming others are just slowing you down while the world around you succeeds.

  • @54markl
    @54markl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    They speak American with a funny accent.

  • @oldwalt4645
    @oldwalt4645 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I see a bunch of entitled people blaming everybody else.

  • @jonbanks653
    @jonbanks653 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You can really tell which group is which without even looking at the label. One group sounds compassionate and thoughtful while the other sounds hateful and ignorant.

  • @NMendy-mw4ij
    @NMendy-mw4ij 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    “If you come to America, learn to speak American”. I didn’t know there is a language known as ‘American’.

    • @griskitkat6680
      @griskitkat6680 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is an academically defined standared from of American English, but that abviously isn't what she was refer to.

    • @everettduncan7543
      @everettduncan7543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are hundreds of languages known as "American"

    • @FuchsiaRosa
      @FuchsiaRosa 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude it’s a figurative sentence and you don’t have to actually speak to speak a language, sign language is language

  • @stevehaynes9498
    @stevehaynes9498 6 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Most of these people are still ignorant...

    • @porcelainpinup4302
      @porcelainpinup4302 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alex Lopez you made a hypocritical statement. It’s okay. Just hit that edit button and fix that nasty grammatical error.

    • @TheHelghast1138
      @TheHelghast1138 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      So are most people who live in cities. Apathy rules the world right now.

    • @jgd5535
      @jgd5535 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes...explains why they cant find goods paying jobs.

    • @jgd5535
      @jgd5535 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The progressive leftist Democrat Marxist Jew politics didn't make these people uneducated and unable to find work.

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No Steve, they are desperate. I was raised in a small mining town but have lived in large cities, St. Louis for 8 years and San Antonio Texas for 12. The problem with rural America is that there are no high paying jobs and you need transportation to reach the jobs that are available. There is little or no public transportation so that means you must own a car. Well with gas at 2.50 to 3.00 a gallon and mandatory insurance added to the cost of a reliable car, many people in rural areas can't afford to get to higher paying jobs. Wall-mart and fast food establishments have wiped out Main street and small restaurants. In the past they paid nearly nothing until recent pressure have forced them to increase wages. If a small town has industry and one or more of them close or move, the town dies and many of the people either cannot afford to re-locate or do not wish to lose family support or be unable to support their families. Rural communities have families that have lived there for centuries and have extended relatives through marriage throughout the community. If they move to another state they lose all that. So they are caught in a dilemma with no clear answer.

  • @dickcarpenter8947
    @dickcarpenter8947 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    American entertainment at it's very very best, weep USA.

  • @jorgerodriguez566
    @jorgerodriguez566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. --Charles Darwin

  • @kaitlynjohnson7237
    @kaitlynjohnson7237 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Some of these people are too unintelligent to even realize how much they're embarrassing themselves

  • @lissaleggs4136
    @lissaleggs4136 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I have no sympathy for people who are not smart enough to see through trump for what he is..

    • @jupin1960
      @jupin1960 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lissa leggs Really? What is he? Tell me. Everyday he is making good on the promises he made. Job growth is off the charts. The stock market is at record high. Real estate is at an all time high. Foreign nations respect us for the first time in years. Illegal immigration has dropped by 75% in 5 months. Thousands of illegal criminals have been deported. I would love to hear what he has done since inauguration that is anything less than what he promised. Oh BTW he has managed to do this while under continuous attack from the media and butt hurt Democrats. This is the best president in my lifetime.

    • @MyDadWasALifeguard
      @MyDadWasALifeguard 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      jupin1960 "job growth is off the charts"..no it's not..but please back up your claim

    • @BethGrantDeRoos
      @BethGrantDeRoos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jupin1960. First off do your homework. Had you actually traveled outside the country you would know foreign nations do not respect us. What countries have you been to this year?
      Donald Trump vowed five days after he won the U.S. presidential election to ->immediately

    • @ctwofirst6635
      @ctwofirst6635 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      jupin1960 You are sadly mistaken. Foreign countries are looking to get our best and brightest to immigrate to their countries - to places where science is still respected. The US has elected an obvious child-like person as president - we are the laughingstock of the world right now. And if you think real estate is at an all-time high, come to the midwest where I live and buy my damn house so I can move some place civilized. House prices are at best stable here, and at worse they're dropping. I hope you like your health insurance, because you're likely to lose it soon.

    • @ctwofirst6635
      @ctwofirst6635 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Beth Grant-DeRoos Thanks for replying in such detail. Trump's bs is just too much to list. I'm glad you made a start on it. I'm sure there's more.

  • @violetgruner707
    @violetgruner707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    "Learn to speak American". You mean English.....

    • @hunterkill97
      @hunterkill97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Also the rightful owner of America & Canada is Native Americans. Their are also entered the country, just like the other immigrants throughout history.

    • @BigPoppa-Monk
      @BigPoppa-Monk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hunterkill97 Wrong.

    • @hunterkill97
      @hunterkill97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@BigPoppa-Monk How am I wrong? I know that, I am right in my point of view.

    • @magz5850
      @magz5850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hunterkill97 This is worded weirdly

    • @billpetersen298
      @billpetersen298 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@magz5850 I think hunterkill is doing a funny.

  • @joyouknow5385
    @joyouknow5385 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Amazing... my guess most of these rural people are a product of the "white flight" generation. Parents & grandparents that fled areas of desegregation.
    You weren't forgotten. You told the rest of us to "stay out," via "red-lining" sunset laws or by gun point no less.
    So we stayed away. And the money that comes with welcoming the diversity of the world stayed out with us.
    You had to have to noticed that the money generating areas of the United States comes from densely populated diverse cities.
    Like I said, you weren't forgotten. We respected you're violent gun point wishes and stayed out of your areas.

    • @marcusaurelius5068
      @marcusaurelius5068 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ジョ or Jo you know Blacks are still the poorest group in the USA lol

    • @marcusaurelius5068
      @marcusaurelius5068 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ジョ or Jo you know and white flight idiots move to suburban areas not rural areas

    • @reneesoryu3650
      @reneesoryu3650 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol. The way you had to make up such nonsense just to make an opportunity to show off your resentment of white people. Just lel

    • @carnissan6728
      @carnissan6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ジョ or Jo you know ,
      Wow, you gotta let that kind of thinking and worrying go. It will hurt you. Make you sick. Just come out and work and play with the rest of us. We need you. You know that. Let it go. Come be with us.

    • @CrazyNormie3457
      @CrazyNormie3457 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      These are rural folk, not suburbanites.

  • @mrheimdall
    @mrheimdall 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Hey ! I KNOW! LET'S ELECT A BILLIONAIRE FOR PRESIDENT, I'LL BET HE'LL REMEMBER US!!!!

    • @nateo200
      @nateo200 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Certainly understands economics better than Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.

    • @DanielLopez-he2fq
      @DanielLopez-he2fq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +nateo200 lolhow his fiscal year starts this year last year was literally Obama I’m glad he’s taking credit for obamas economy every presidents fiscal year is this way same with Bush and Obama he knows nothing of economics this is why we’re going to have another crash you do realize the guy who doesn’t like to read which you need to understand policy and its effects their is a reason his own staff calls him a child the WEF is even saying America is tripping we are setting ourselves back

  • @MJ-yi3dy
    @MJ-yi3dy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps! It's all about personal responsibility!

    • @sarahwoods2017
      @sarahwoods2017 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      M J that's what they always tell people on welfare. Karma's a bitch isn't it?

    • @tallthinkev
      @tallthinkev 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How about those who can't, through no fault of their own?

    • @dallastaylor5479
      @dallastaylor5479 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      tallthinkev there is a reason why we have ghost towns out west. If they can't find good jobs they should move, get an education and get a decent job, which is exactly what i did. It is not the governments job to get you a good job for unskilled workers who want to live where companies do not want to locate there. Quit expecting the gov to take care of you. And i am a flaming liberal. Disability is being abused and what makes it funny is everyone i know on disability is a republican and none are disabled. Whinners!

    • @tallthinkev
      @tallthinkev 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Some of the stuff you say is all well and good, yet I am asking about those who can't, those with a disability say?

    • @dallastaylor5479
      @dallastaylor5479 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Toms Friend Kake i did not say get a degree, i said get a skill. I have interviewed MBAs that could not write a complete sentence and people with no degree that are scary smart. A skill is marketable. I would also say if a person today has an education/skill and are still working crap jobs, it is their fault. There are over 5 million job openings but people don't have the skills.

  • @thebuzzinc2757
    @thebuzzinc2757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s hard feeling bad for ignorant people

  • @SECook-vw8lg
    @SECook-vw8lg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hey, guys, you really have not been forgotten. I live in Seattle, Washington which is considered to be a Blue Bastion politically. But my roots, strangely enough, are in Ashtabula County, Ohio where my branch of the Cooks lived for decades. One of their offspring made his way to Iowa and married my grandmother. I was born and raised in Iowa and I feel very deeply for the plight of small farmers and small business owners. I am a registered Democrat mostly because it was necessary for voting in the state primary when I first registered to vote here. However, I do not subscribe to the Democratic talking points blindly and completely. I consider myself a Progressive, politically. By that, I mean, I feel that it is incumbent upon the average American to work toward and promote a good life for all our citizens and also for the citizens of the world we live in. What I want more than anything else is to be able to talk with my fellow citizens about how we can improve our lives, not argue about who is getting more and what has gone wrong. We need to take control of our Congress back into the hands of "we, the people." And then we need to hit the ground running with solutions and problem solving to begin to heal and move our country forward.

  • @kaitlynjohnson7237
    @kaitlynjohnson7237 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Trump's the most unqualified President in the 20th century"... I agree with this sentiment, but "20th" century? Really??

  • @RepublicanJesusthe2nd
    @RepublicanJesusthe2nd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    What kills me the most is how people can't afford to live but they have kids like it's okay.

    • @storm1chex5
      @storm1chex5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's always confused the bejesers out of me: you barely take care of themselves, but will be selfish and stupid enough to think that somehow the world owes them something because they are stupid, useless & braindead: SORRY, BUT NO DAMNED WAY IN HELL!!!! Get a grip on reality & grow a brain

    • @connormcgregor4578
      @connormcgregor4578 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      they's just doin as theys pappy raped em too

    • @kippahthefrenchiewhippasni9689
      @kippahthefrenchiewhippasni9689 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Praying 🙏🏼 for you all….

    • @MrBabujinga
      @MrBabujinga ปีที่แล้ว

      struggle is part of life....look at how a baby struggles to live and learn to talk...shirking that because of poverty is self-defeating. Ever since man crawled out of slime...it's been a struggle...from struggle comes solutions...we all can't be Bill Gates..did you know that Diarhea is hereditary? it runs in your Jeans!

  • @citylife3229
    @citylife3229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These people need to take personal responsibility instead of blaming the government. The government isn't their nanny.

  • @pmf598
    @pmf598 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where i live in Wales , in the UK , you can still see the ruins of cottages abandoned in 1820's and '30s by people who moved to Ohio , hundreds of people in a great wave in a 30 year period , and they all spoke Welsh . . not American . . !! . . :).

  • @shannonbloom4133
    @shannonbloom4133 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Something to be said for education, reflection and awareness. People who refuse to face reality always end up being conned by everyone.

  • @ChaosAlpha
    @ChaosAlpha 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    They were forgotten the instant they left the voting booth.

  • @altha-rf1et
    @altha-rf1et 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Lived in a rural area, mostly farmers and people worked for the state hospital, could not make a good living enough to get by

  • @chaimrothberg5367
    @chaimrothberg5367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The disconnect in this comment section perfectly encapsulates why this country is going to tear itself apart.

  • @EskimoJoe492
    @EskimoJoe492 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The same people who complain about politicians being 'out of touch' or 'DC insiders' are the same people who never read up on the issues, or hold their elected officials accountable and vote for the same people year after year. The electorate is just as guilty as the people they vote into office year after year. EDIT: grammar

  • @queenb4734
    @queenb4734 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    someone should tell these people. that minimum wage jobs are largely what's available in the cities too... they are sort of snowflakey.

    • @OnettBoyXD
      @OnettBoyXD 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have no say in this issue citybitch.

    • @alquinn8576
      @alquinn8576 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2.3% of jobs are paid at the federal minimum wage rate

  • @niconestra
    @niconestra 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    When I look back at the ghetto I grew up in NYC I'd still take the crime and debauchery over living in that place.

    • @kentuckyboychris
      @kentuckyboychris 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's the same people.

    • @carnissan6728
      @carnissan6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow!

    • @stephenanderson1594
      @stephenanderson1594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kentuckyboychris Right in many ways most Americans urban or rural are deplorable

  • @erikrunnel7165
    @erikrunnel7165 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Where are these people living where $197/ month in food stamps lets you live like royalty?

  • @catherinewilson9894
    @catherinewilson9894 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    How embarrassing for that area!

  • @SapphireX413
    @SapphireX413 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Trump 👏 literally 👏 campaigned 👏 for 👏 places 👏 like 👏 this
    I want a follow-up in 4 years

    • @MrOneNye
      @MrOneNye 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Beckah Mataronas pretty good black clapping emphasis...for a white girl lol. I read it black but I had to remind myself with the profile pic, "oh yea she's white" XD

    • @MrOneNye
      @MrOneNye 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vilonious Lee we were taken out of a recession without hardly feeling it like they did in the 30's. Thanks to president obama :) But the market lost 2000 points this month :( thanks to president trump. Confidence in one. Mistrust in another. Or do you not like data?

    • @SapphireX413
      @SapphireX413 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vilonious Lee Too bad he cut taxes and increased spending. That's going to show in the yearly deficit.

    • @SapphireX413
      @SapphireX413 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Vilonious Lee I'm not talking about Obama, Bush, or Clinton. I'm making zero comparisons. All I said is that Trump cut taxes while increasing spending. It doesn't matter how many people have jobs or how many companies enter the country. If you spend more than you make, you will have a deficit. Period. What do you think is going to happen when you increase spending and decrease revenue

    • @SapphireX413
      @SapphireX413 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vilonious Lee I understand that, but companies large enough to have any real bearing can already avoid paying the full tax rate and many don't pay the full rate. Trickle down economics doesn't work, we've already tried it. The middle class is bringing home an extra $20-30 a week - a drop in the bucket for most families.

  • @LikeItDeep
    @LikeItDeep 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm English born and bred. I didn't realize I spoke American.

  • @quirkyqwerty2935
    @quirkyqwerty2935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "learn to speak American" says the woman who is speaking English not a native American language

    • @MrMaxguy1
      @MrMaxguy1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was not one native tribe language smooth brain

    • @quirkyqwerty2935
      @quirkyqwerty2935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrMaxguy1 it was a joke

    • @quirkyqwerty2935
      @quirkyqwerty2935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrMaxguy1 I'll change it to a Native American language then :)

  • @gevdarg
    @gevdarg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Now I do agree with...
    Stop tweeting!
    Know your facts!

  • @chrisjohnson9645
    @chrisjohnson9645 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    They are passive victims who are waiting for someone to save them. It doesn't seem as if they are proactive in their own success. On the other hand, if it is so nice to be there then why all the whining. Is it a good place or not. Do you really need something or do you just want something. They want big important high paying jobs. Great, what skills do you have? What education? If you were educated by the local high school to be a good follower of community protocol you likely don't know how to do much but follow orders.

    • @yabadabadue7889
      @yabadabadue7889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chris Johnson excelled points! "Passive victims" - very true. Are we supposed to feel sorry for people who sit around and do nothing to help themselves? But god forbid an illegal immigrant works 2 or 3 low wage jobs trying to improve the lives of their children. We sympathize with the whiny "victim" and vilify the hard worker?

  • @MrShanester117
    @MrShanester117 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t get it. They advocate for minimum government, then say the government is ignoring them 🤔

    • @jdanon203
      @jdanon203 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They rail against freebies and handouts when they live in welfare queen states that take in more federal dollars than they pay in.

  • @quirkyqwerty2935
    @quirkyqwerty2935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another irony is that poor people are defending rich people not wanting to pay taxes