Comments on: Somebody ought to give the true picture of them http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/08/somebody-ought-to-give-true-picture-of.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Wed, 15 May 2013 13:33:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: sizemore http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/08/somebody-ought-to-give-true-picture-of.html#comment-1058367 sizemore Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:30:28 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/08/somebody-ought-to-give-the-true-picture-of-them/#comment-1058367 Poverty is all I ever seen. What else is there to focus on besides that?
Sad thing is everyone ignores the poverty we have here in America. Let the people of the united states push them under a rug like they do many things that are unpleasant to face.

Yes we have many opportunities more so then others outside this country but who’s door does it knock on? Surely not those in this country who suffer the most.

We as people in this Country should start focusing on what is important, not how we can line our pockets with the profits from books and so called documents from those who barely can afford to buy a decent meal or put cloths on their children’s backs.

]]> By: Dave Tabler http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/08/somebody-ought-to-give-true-picture-of.html#comment-1049280 Dave Tabler Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:05:35 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/08/somebody-ought-to-give-the-true-picture-of-them/#comment-1049280 I have family in Logan, WV, and know full well firsthand that there’s plenty of poverty in Appalachia. My point with this post, and with the site in general, is to offer up a rounded view of Appalachia as a whole. The national media loves to focus on the grinding poverty at the expense of everything else, but as you know there’s more to Appalachia than that cariacature offers.

]]> By: sizemore http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/08/somebody-ought-to-give-true-picture-of.html#comment-1049106 sizemore Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:09:23 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/08/somebody-ought-to-give-the-true-picture-of-them/#comment-1049106 Go to Bar creek in Manchester Kentucky, then tell me there isn’t kids who run around bare footed and half might get lucky to have one meal a day..There are hundreds of kids and family’s there that do without food and cloths. Half are lucky to have a roof over their heads and live in shacks .I am not sure where your getting your information from.
I know first hand how people live there because I used to be one of those kids, who ran around with a dirty face and cloths that didn’t fit..and was lucky to get anything to lay on my tongue to cure the hunger pains.
The houses there that are nice run up in the half million to over the million mark and I have never seen one near where the poorest of the poor live. Take a drive through the town and drive around the mountain sides instead of looking in a book.. then I will say you have the insight first hand in how people live.

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