Diane Sawyer report on Appalachian Poverty (Louisville, Corbin: law, moving to, office)

[dixiegirl7]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

You are so busy trying to distance yourself from the problem that you have BECOME part of the problem

They are no more part of the problem than you are. Living in Kentucky does not make the few people shown on the program everyone in Kentucky's problem. Poverty is the nation's problem, but the people living in this poverty have to make choices to change their lives. No amount of help will change anything without a willingness to change their own circumstances.

[Spotted1]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

You are so busy trying to distance yourself from the problem that you have BECOME part of the problem

That's not a fair thing to say. You don't honestly know how much I do or do not put into the community. I don't want to be seen as a toothless, lazy a-s waiting on a government handout, shack dweller without running water by the rest of this country but that doesn't mean that I don't donate money, time, etc to help those that actually are poverty stricken.

[Spotted1]

Originally Posted by MN2CO

Sotted1 - I for one didn't walk away thinking everyone was that way and from what I've read here, neither does anyone else from outside KY. Please, we're not stupid! Every state has their "issues". We just don't all have mountains.

And that's all I'm trying to get across. These 'investigative reports' are good at spinning a web to give the appearance that these types of problems are localized. And of course there's plenty of grounded folks who recognize that it's not, but there are those who think it is a localized issue. How many folks in Beverly Hills that watched that show are going to realize that there are people in California that are just like the ones in the report from Kentucky (albeit with a different accent)? You know? :shrug:

[hdwell]

Hope this doesn't take away from the topic, but I like Kentucky. Sure the state has it's problems, but what state doesn't? Extreme poverty can be found in the Louisiana-Mississsippi-Arkansas delta, south Texas near the border, etc. I live down there. Not to gloss over anything, but Ky is a beautiful state. I've always enjoyed my visits there.

Btw, I know what it's like to live in a state that only has two uses for the news media. In Louisiana we only have hurricanes and racial problems. Nothing else ever happens here but those according to the media. So I just stopped paying any attention to them.

[dixiegirl7]

Originally Posted by hdwell

Hope this doesn't take away from the topic, but I like Kentucky. Sure the state has it's problems, but what state doesn't? Extreme poverty can be found in the Louisiana-Mississsippi-Arkansas delta, south Texas near the border, etc. I live down there. Not to gloss over anything, but Ky is a beautiful state. I've always enjoyed my visits there.

Btw, I know what it's like to live in a state that only has two uses for the news media. In Louisiana we only have hurricanes and racial problems. Nothing else ever happens here but those according to the media. So I just stopped paying any attention to them.

Thank you for your understanding. I have family in south Mississippi and Louisianna and I don't like it when they are portrayed in a biased way either.

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by nawog

by Limbaugh? Hannity? MSNBC? Hollywood? The Pope? Ted Haggard? Santa Claus? Obama? Todd Palin? Lizard People?

By the DNC.

[nawog]

Originally Posted by Houston3

By the DNC.

I was hoping people would overlook my silliness. Can you imagine the response if I started a thread on Pelosi's HBO documentary, Right America, Feeling Wronged? I don't even want to imagine the meaness.

[lovesMountains]

This is what I was talking about..."millions" of people have responded to this story. SEE, the story was a very POSITIVE thing people.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...26723&src=news (click on the "children of the mountains" story)

[MN2CO]

Right now, on Oprah, they are doing a story (rerun) on a family from Ohio where the entire family in on heroine - minus the 13 month old baby. It's an epidemic in that area (and others). My point is - I don't believe people will now say "Oh, that Ohio - they're all on heroine". These shows are beneficial to others - people need to be aware. Every state has their issues.

[blue_eyedgirl]

I watched the program on Friday and found it to be fair. With that said I don't believe what was shown to be exclusive to Eastern Kentucky. I'm from South Central Kentucky (Grayson Co.) and have witnessed many of those same situations back home. The cycle of poverty is extremely hard to break and honestly I don't see it ending anytime soon.