[Hoot Gibson]

I've said it more than once, I have and will travel wherever to find work to feed my family. I don't sit on my butt crying about work, I have traveled hundreds of miles to make money for my family. If this guy is really worried about feeding his family, he won't sit around and wait for unemployment to run out, he will go find work. I have traveled as far as New Mexico to work, when it got slim around here. I have worked 400 miles away from home during the week and drove home on the weekends. A man that wants to feed his family will go wherever to do it.

...and I have done the same. I have not worked in eastern Kentucky in nearly 10 years - so we agree on that point. The only point that I disputed was your suggestion that the unemployed man should seek a job in an underground mine. Unless he had previous underground mining experience, Barack Obama would be almost as qualified to go to work underground. (I dwill concede that lack of experience and qualifications did not prevent Obama from landing his current job.)