The Difference Between Waiting and Seeking Opportunity

Is this a problem, much less a President's problem?:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

After all, we'll never lack for small towns where the jobs have gone for years. Or millennia. There will always be remnants of blighted industrys for a campaign backdrop.

Am I heartless? Well, I have put people from small towns in Pennsylvania and New York to work. In Utah.

What's wrong with moving to pursue better opportunities? I've done it, Barack Obama's done it, and so has Hillary Clinton.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Apr 21, 2008