RAISINISBACK
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It's hard work to live in poverty. It's been made out, since the mid 70s that there's "Welfare Queens" and Kings, just livin' it up. If one has never been poor, and never had to struggle to keep the lights on, chop wood for the winter, staple plastic to your windows before winter, and make sure that there's food on the table then it's hard to fathom that there may just not be time to camp out at LE's doorstep. You're worried about the living. I'd say they are in daily contact with LE but if another family member or members are murdered, whose going to take care of those children who are left? My thoughts would not so much be fear for myself but fear for who'd be left to raise my children, and fear they may murder children next time. They murdered a hardly 16 year old kid. Also, where is it written that they should trust LE to protect them? Appalachian Americans are the only people, and culture, left in America, that it's okay to poke fun at and openly mock and treat with disdain. I think that might be why there's no news media lined up to pick up this story...
The woman, in this article, was working 30 hours each week to get $100 per month in benefits. That breaks down to around $0.77¢ an hour if my cipherin' is correct. She still drove 10 minutes to a local creek, one way, to fill up water jugs b/c her water had been shut off. People who are poor, can't leave a $0.77 per hour job, and not do whatever else it takes to get by each month, to go out and planning marches, be it partly from fear, or just having to keep on living their lives, for their children, while hoping that a formerly corrupt LE system will bring justice. I can see where they'd lose hope, personally, as someone whose lived, and worked in the region my entire life. Life is very different when you are poor and the L's and the Ms are poor. There may be folks who are poorer but I don't think anyone can argue that they aren't poor.
I'm not trying to get on anyone's case, but life is just very different when you live in a rural region, stricken by generational poverty. The family is probably not really wanting to shed more light on what the deceased were doing for a living either. Especially if they're not sure where else it will lead. jmo
Rural Poor Face Unique Challenges
http://www.toledoblade.com/Economy/2012/05/20/Rural-poor-face-unique-challenges.html
Death Comes Sooner To Appalachia
http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article169037857.html
BBM
I agree with this statement you made.