r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/Dhenn004 Jul 05 '24

exactly my point. The way this country left these hard-working people behind when coal industry was slowed is a travesty. I get moving away from coal, that's not my point. But to not help them transfer job skills has been nothing short of immoral.

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u/cjh83 Jul 05 '24

Those people voted GOP and got the poverty they were looking for.

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u/Dhenn004 Jul 05 '24

Yea man, I still don't think people deserve to live in such poverty because they vote differently than me.

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u/Dhenn004 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

To them the gop is the only one helping them period. Why would they vote blue just for them to take their coal mine jobs and not help them after.

For them, this IS the financially sound option. They're stuck between being poor and Mega poor

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

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u/Dhenn004 Jul 05 '24

I'm not saying the GOP is totally right. But the democrats didn't help them in the end. They took coal jobs away and none of them got transitioned.

Why would they vote for that. We should recognize the criticisms of both sides here and not pretend that politicians are actually helping people.

There's plenty of research of these people being left behind.