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Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Mixed Messages
Matt Robinson posted on his Facebook page this picture of the little American flags that the Watauga County Republican Party was handing out at the Boone July 4th parade yesterday. Clearly stamped on the wooden part is "MADE IN CHINA."
Why is this a surprise? Sending jobs overseas is the way the GOPers have for dealing with the American economy. That and preserving tax cuts for the rich. The color of trickle-down is p*ss yellow.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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2 comments:
Why is this a surprise? Sending jobs overseas is the way the GOPers have for dealing with the American economy. That and preserving tax cuts for the rich. The color of trickle-down is p*ss yellow.
The kazoos the Democrats were using were Made in the U.S.A.!! (Sorry, couldn't help it - we had SUCH a great time!)
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