06-11-2008, 04:07 PM | #11 | |
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I love it. The problem with Wyoming is that there is just no work. You can't make it growing 50 acres of alfalfa. All the men have to travel 100+ miles for crappy work, and they wonder why people with means are buying up the land for their vacation homes. it's a pretty place, but there is little work. And raping the land isn't the answer. |
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i can hear your debates with ranchers and vice versa. In Nevada, we have miners arguing with ranchers, who argue with farmers, who argue with Sierra Nevada types, who then get arguments from those from out of state living in Vegas that have never set foot in the rest of the state.
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Ms. Fuller is full of crap, she's an elitist who doesn't want her pretty view spoiled and she doesn't care how many lives she ruins doing it. She's entitled, after all. And all those people she'd have out of good high-paying jobs? Well it'll just mean her landscaping and house cleaning will be just that much cheaper when the unemployment rate is up.
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I had read the second page of the Fuller piece, went back and read the first page....I think she has a point.
Of course I am much more environmentalist than I am like Daniel Day-Lewis in "There will be blood." So that is my bias. The oil industry as the dominant economic force in a state is a dead-end. Texas discovered this in 1985, and ever since have not depended on energy sector. Wyoming's crash, when oil crashes, will be something spectacular. |
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As I said at the start, this is the sort of thing that tends to get me worked up. Not to change the debate too much, but does Wyoming need to diversify it's economic base? Without a doubt. And you're starting to see little things here and there. Not enough to make a difference right now, but hopefully the start of something bigger.
In the meantime why should we all be forced to live hand to mouth so that Ms. Fuller's delicate sensibilities aren't offended?
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