Re: Obama Looking Out for Little Guy or Business as Usual?

by ziggy Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:26 pm

OK.

----- Original Message -----
From: VICKY ABBOTT
To: MILDRED BROWN ; PAT BODKIN ; Fyoung@highlands.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: Fwd: Forwarding Question

Mr Young,

I am replying in response to your question to Mildred Brown asking if we have the number of claims for UC during 1957 - 1961, also if we have a web site link.
I am not aware of a web site link, but I have located the information you have requested. It is located in the following book, which you should probably be able to locate at the library.

Employment Security in West Virginia
Thirteenth Annual Report to the Governor
July 1, 1966 - June 30, 1967
Table 13, page 59.

The years you have requested for the total initial claims filed are listed below.

Year Initial Claims
1957 118,425
1958 210,791
1959 164,961
1960 166,641
1961 151,217

If you have any further questions you can contact me at the number listed below.

Thanks,

Vicky

Vicky Abbott
Bureau of Employment Programs
112 California Avenue
Charleston, W.V.
(304) 558-2660

by **SheikBen** Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:26 am

ziggy wrote:
That he adds the emotional tells me that he feels the need to overplay his hand, and I should like to know why.

That he "adds the emotional"?

He would not have had the ambition to write about MTR in the first place had the effects of MTR not provoked his emotions.

It is not "overplay" unless what he says about himself and his uncles is untrue. In the context of the hell he and his neighbors live, it is all relevant. Though not on the scale Bo Webb and his neighbors have, I have lived the hellish horrors of strip mining. Apparently you haven't.

Had you not been overly emotional:) Smile

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You would have noticed that I stated that if indeed the problem is as bad as Bo (and you) say that it is, then that is sufficient for demanding change.

Supposing that I haven't been through the "hellish horrors" makes my point. If they are indeed "hellish," then why are they any more hellish because this guy fought in Vietnam, or his uncle died of black lung? Would they be less "hellish" if this guy were a union buster who was an expert in outsourcing jobs? If your answer is yes, then you and I really are miles apart.