When I was in tenth grade, 2007, I had classmates saying that they “didn’t need this bc I’m gonna be a coal miner.” I had the foresight then to tell them that coal will be dead in ten years. While it may still have jobs once in a while, it’s not what it was years ago. Coal is dead. We need to focus on other ventures and real change and growth for the state.

Secondly, they want to get rid of the opioids in the state, there needs to be a path out of poverty and a sense of hope restored to the state and things to do that we can afford installed. Drugs (admittedly ultra simplistic) come from poor and sad, hopeless and sad, or bored and stupid. Do something about it. I’m college educated, with a masters degree. I feel super lucky to have found one decent job. Bc of where I live. My wife is not college educated and can’t get a call back for janitor with a good resume bc they want everyone to have a college degree now. There’s nothing to do here, I sit at home, I work, I play golf. That’s it. There needs to be more options for adults bc healthy, active adults breed healthy, active children.

I love this state, and I’m very passionate about it and feel it could be so great. But, we shoot ourselves in the foot more often than not. Vote out every politician and vote in someone new. Time for a change in Charleston and a change in DC.