Bush Ain't Wanted In Kentucky, Either!

Bush supporters were not impressed. Jeff Houghton, 42, watched the protesters as he held an American flag and a sign that proclaimed, "We support our president and our troops." "I see a bunch of kids talking about things they don't understand," said Houghton, who designs circuit boards at Lexmark. "They're complaining about lost jobs. I doubt any of them ever held a job."
Centre Daily News story

Well, outside of Luxury Lexington and Lubricated Louisville, there are very few damn jobs IN Kentucky!

Most manufacturing has been shipped overseas. Even the coal is being stripped, rather than mined. Mom & Pop stores are closing in droves, as Wal*Mart, which buys manufactured goods overseas, runs them out, forcing Mom & Pop to work at Wal*Mart as greeters.

Perhaps this guy is a member of: the "horsey" set, the bourbon industry, the tobacco industry. Let's see: that would be addictive chemicals and gambling, right? Or maybe he's a marijuana farmer? Or perhaps he's part of the Kentucky Mafia, shipping CRACK into the hollows of Eastern Kentucky?

Whatever "business" he's in, he is either directly or indirectly benefitting from these exploitive industries, even if he just sells them hamburger or ~gasp~ gasoline.

If these kids have no jobs, it's fat cat boot lickers like that redneck chump who are keeping ALL of us killing each other for a few damn crumbs!

The Good Ol' Boy network is alive and well, and has the NERVE to grouse about a few kids who actually CARE about the future?

That's low class, no account TACKY!
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Post Script:

I looked up ol' Jeff Houghton and Lexmark of Lexington.

Back in 1996 (the middle of the dot.com boom), Lexmark published a press release, announcing, in part, the OPENING OF A NEW FACTORY IN JUAREZ, MEXICO, which would employ 350. There are SO MANY high-paying jobs in Kentucky, it's acceptable to EXPORT FACTORY JOBS? Hell, people in Eastern KY will work for DIRT!

In 1997, Lexmark investigated for monopolizing printer cartridge industry, threatening 350 other companies!

In 1999 (although this ThinkKentucky press release isn't properly dated, so I'm guessing the date, based on what I could find), the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky paid ransom so Lexmark could belly up to the public trough with "tax incentives." This means, of course, that Lexmark agreed to stay in Lexington if they didn't have to pay their fair share of the social services, infrastructure and community needs. Extortion: cut our taxes, or we'll cut jobs in your town! As if THAT stopped them...

Back in 2000, the Ky Colonol newspaper headline read, "Lexmark Stock Plummets; Job Cut of 900 to Follow" Good lord, Jeffy! You DESIGN the damn things; all the people in the FACTORY got LAID OFF! ARROGANT fool!

In 2002, Lexmark files suit against a competing cartridge manufacturer, who mimiced Lexmark's newly-invented, competiton-stifling "kill chip." Without this chip in the cartridge, Lexmark printers won't work!

2003: The court rules against Lexmark and require it to pay workman's comp. to an injured worker they'd refused to pay. Nickel and diming.

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