You know, it's pretty hard to get more conservative than Avery and Mitchell Counties here in the mountains. They each went for McCain in 2008 by margins of 72%-28% and 71%-29%, respectively.
Yet, when we noticed this article in the Mitchell News-Journal, we had to wonder:
Mitchell County and the towns of Bakersville and Spruce Pine have submitted their proposed projects for President Barack Obama's stimulus package.The unemployment situation in Mitchell County is tough. Very tough. According to the North Carolina Employment Security Commission, unemployment there was 9.4% in December 2008. And yet, folks there may never be willing to admit that the unfettered free-market could ever be anything other than the ONLY WAY. This, despite years of evidence that Mitchell County residents have wound up on the short end of the stick in terms of economic opportunity.
The county and its two towns have submitted five projects to the North Carolina state government.
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You'd have to look pretty hard in Mitchell County to find someone there who wouldn't agree with the oft-stated conservative mantra that all government is evil. But here we are. How bad do things have to get until people start to question the ideology that has been passed down from generation to generation?
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Sorry but the residents of these area are not intelligent enough to to even undertsnd the ideology they claim to back much less understand a new one.
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