[Hoot Gibson]

I pay taxes, He pays taxes, The government should help us when we need it.

And yes hoot i have been through this. 1997 my families house exploded from a gas leak. Luckily my family was in a lot better financial situation then and we could manage just fine. My mother lost thousands of pictures from her family not including everything we owned. Dont preach to people who cant decide were they live. People in eastern kentucky scrape by. We live were we can. And make the best of it.

Also i have spoken with 15thRegionSlamaBamma about this subject before, His reason for meeting with McConnell was totally different, however his situation has changed.

I am just amazed at you. Living in eastern kentucky as a child looks like you would show some respect to this guys situation.

Your childish insults get old. You do not know me at all and yet you make assumptions about me that could not be more misleading. I have lived in homes without indoor plumbing in eastern Kentucky and remember long cold walks to an outhouse. Can you say the same? Fortunately, my father worked very hard, sometimes holding down two or three jobs at a time, and overcame poverty without the help of the federal government. I even remember my dad shifting into neutral and coasting down hills because we were nearly our of gas and had no money to fill the tank. I never really understood just how poor we were until years later.

So, don't lecture me about growing up poor in eastern Kentucky. People always have a choice as to where they live - sometimes it just takes some saving, sacrifice, hard work, and time to be able to escape a bad situation.