The residents of America’s poorest town, Beattyville, Kentucky, are losing hope in the Trump administration.
“I’ve lived in poverty my entire life,” Melissa Allen, 34, said. “There’s really no hope. I don’t understand why the minimum wage here can’t be raised. I don’t get that. I hope it gets better. I really do, but I just don’t want to live on false hope.”
52-year-old Donna Coomer; “Have you ever tried to live on $7.25 an hour? It was horrible.” She also thanks God for Trump’s election, believing he will change things.
Pegg Stewart, 62, just begs the President to help. “Mr. Trump, please take care of us. We’re looking to you.”
Sadly, many Americans in the same situation, who voted for Trump, can’t connect the President’s policies with their own sufferings. For instance, they don’t connect that while they want and need a higher minimum wage, the Republicans don’t—and Trump even suggested getting rid of it altogether.
Under Trump, the residents of Beattyville will only suffer more, and hopefully, they will start to see why.
Unbelievable. Isn’t this 2017? Isn’t this considered the modern age? How can be so dense?
I believe it’s called greed.
Trump LOVES the Poorly Educated!!
Speaking of poor education, please don’t blame me for the grammatical error in the headline. Someone else is to blame for that. Probably not Trump this time.
The last lady explained part of their problem, ‘President Obama did well for some people’, and he did! He extended unemployment, gave us Healthcare, and made it easier to back to school. “I took advantage of all three”. the problem is: these people were looking for the coal jobs to comeback, instead of facing facts, THEY NEEDED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL! and learn something else, My Associates Degree was not getting me anything decent jobs, so I “HAD TO BACK TO SCHOOL”. They love drump because he does not push education. He doesn’t push education, because he likes uneducated people. “HE SAID IT”, NOT THE MEDIA…HIM!!!!!!!!!
Guess what happened Americans, you ignored the poverty created and forced on innocent people in favor of social mobility. Your grandparents and theirs came to this nation and never asked who built the beacon so powerful, they could see it in their lands. They shed not one single tear in relation to the forced condition of innocent human beings over 4 centuries and that is why each of your families will feel what was ignored.
Still don’t get it huh, you MUST see yourself in every living creatures eyes and if you can’t, you will be forced to relate by life!
AMEN. I love the new spin on reaping what you’ve sown.
This woman’s condition is very sad, indeed. However, Trump supporters like her contributed to their own suffering by voting for a liar and a con man who clearly did not care about their condition regardless of what he said. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence should have been able to look at Trump’s past and see he only cares for himself and his rich friends, NOT the poor and disenfranchised. Trump voters are now experiencing the results of their ignorance first hand. Sad for us all.
Oh boo hoo.
Let me see, poor people who were just happy to see a black man gone out of office decided to throw all of their votes behind a billionaire who then supplied his administration with more billionaires who has now got ties to a little company that’s working in Puerto Rico now that will make millions and millions of dollars, somehow or other everything he does benefits the wealthy I can’t understand for the life of me why poor people thought a filthy rich man who has never shown a shred of concern about the poor would suddenly give a damn about them after he was elected to the highest office in the United States. He achieved his goal he’s able to say I Donald Trump was the president of the United States of America now does he give a damn about the poor well, hell no isn’t that obvious? He clearly said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue or whatever damn street in New York and shoot someone and no one would care, he said he loved educated people but he really loves the uneducated HE MEANT THAT and all of you fools ran out and threw your vote behind someone who is obviously showing he could give less than a flying F about you. And coal miners…. hang that up cuz that bus ain’t coming your direction.Watch who that tax cut is going to help not the poor OR middle class.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Trump spoke to their whiteness and nativism. He said he was Their guy; and these people want to be cared for. They attack Black people about wanting the government to take care of them, when the truth is that these people want It to be “For White’s Only”.
The Revolutionary War happened, but the mentality never changed. They have a class mentality. They everyone to stay in their own lain and wait for the king to make it better for them.
They want a nanny state as long as its for them only and not for those lazy Black people.
Cognitive Dissonance.
Beattyville Kentucky if you think trump care about POOR people keep thinking you voted for that con. And I don’t feel sorry for you trump got a little money don’t care if you got money or not you brought everything you get on yourself he can’t bring you jobs he can’t do anything for you because he don’t care and can’t bring you jobs where would he get them from . one lady spoke said trump have done more in a week than Obama done in 8 years well what have you got? If trump have done so much why are you complaining. Obama could have done more but Congress would not pass no bill that he put in front of them for 8 years so don’t blame him . blame Congress and the republicans like Mitch McConnell that’s the main one if you need help get him out of the white house.
Yes, all you have said is true. It is unconscionable that Trump repeatedly promised his base supporters that he was the only one who would help them, in return for their votes, without intending for one millisecond to actually deliver on those promises. Trump has preyed on people he has hired for decades, often refusing to pay them for work they have done. If these unfortunate folks would bother to read and become more informed they would have realized this about Trump before casting their votes. Hopefully they have been burned once and will be more careful in 2020.
You are so right. Republicans are like a bunch of leaches who don’t care where they get their blood. Just that they get it. I feel for those people all the time. Unfortunately they are trapped in an area when ignorance and superstition is alive and well. No wonder that they are going to be sadly disappointed.
You nailed it! You hit it out of the park. They were driven by his dog whistle rhetoric of a White’s Only Utopia. He read them and used what he saw their to his benefit. President Obama warned them. They wouldn’t listen and refused to heed him.
Now…they pay. Hillary would have advantaged them, but she couldn’t be heard, either. The republican machinery drowned her out.
I don’t feel sorry for any of them.
you spoke the truth !!!! i dont feel sorry for any of them…i hope they go under
Emma, you are absolutely right!
Very sad. Impeach Trump
I agree, but if he was, Pence won’t help her either. He vote screwed this country for at least 4 years.
Keep on pleading with Fullofshiticus! Consider that he told the residents of hurricane devastated Puerto Rico that they’d shouldn’t depend on help from the federal government and they’d have to get things fixed themselves. And, just as he told that Gold Star widow the other day about her husband … “he knew what he signed up for.” Well, Beattyville … you chose to live there, you KNEW that the region was poverty stricken. So, fix it YOURSELF! My final thought is … how many of you voted for Fullofshiticus? Maybe if you let him grab the women by their collective “puzzies” that would help. If you voted for him, YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE VOTING FOR! OR maybe do as Reagan recommended and PULL YOURSELF UP by your own bootstraps. Your state keeps voting for these people! You’re getting what you voted for so stop your complaining and while you’re stopping your complaining remember it was Clinton and Sanders who wanted to raise the minimum wage … NOT Fullofshiticus.
So very well said
I agree with you 100%. Time and time again, these people vote against their own best interests. Republicans don’t want to give them a damn thing; it’s the Democrats, the “libtards,” who want to help. I’d like to say ‘live and learn,’ but I highly doubt they will have learned anything by the time Trump’s 4 years are up.
https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg
And you’ll keep voting against your own interests.
Y’all were warned….but it was about e-mails.
And don’t forget Benghazi, Clinton wasn’t culpable in that, even though Trey Gowdy tampered with evidence to try to make Clinton look guilty. And dimwits like these voted for a guy who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anyone other than himself.
Move to where there are better jobs.
And stop voting republican.
Moochers.
Lol, the same people yelling cut food stamps because blacks and Latin’s are getting them. Poor fools.
Come to Florida, we have amazon and lots of jobs. Summer is hot but we just hide inside or at the beach. Try something new
Pretty hard to feel sorry for these people. They believed every lie Trump spit out.
When are you going to get a clue? Republicans are not ever going to help you, EVER! You are not corporations so forget getting any help. Now that 45 is president, his only thought is to line his pockets with taxpayer $$$ and helping those just like him-THE RICH!
Trump isn’t ignoring them ! He’s working every day to take away their healthcare (that Obama and the Democrats gave them.)
I’m so sorry you believed in our untruthful President.
These are the Trump supporters whom you don’t see on TV or “social media”, who don’t scream and rant and kick the wheelchair of a crippled boy or call everyone a “libtard”. It is still a dismal failure in our political system, our educational system, and our media (especially the reactionary propaganda machines) that somehow decent people were led to believe such great absurdities as:
(1) That this billionaire city slicker carpetbagger from hell, whose family made their fortune by screwing over poor people by being among the worst slumlords in NYC, is actually on the side of the working people
(2) That the rest of the Republican party is any better
(3) That he in any way could be qualified for the job, let alone that God (somebody else’s God — not mine!) has somehow anointed him as the chosen one to save America from…? rationality? sanity? humane treatment of its non-wealthy citizens? Only a badly distorted caricature of the Prince of Peace could bless this prideful and hateful and GREEDY man.
(4) That Hillary was anywhere near as rotten a person as she was portrayed
(5) That regulations which actually are life-saving were somehow “job-killing”. The rich have just gotten more avaricious, trying to wrench every last penny out of their projects by shipping jobs to even more destitute areas than rural Kentucky, and to parts of the world too weak to enforce environmental regulations.
These fellow Americans of ours have been fed an alternative reality, one propped up by a steady stream of b.s. blasted from a facet of the media who would only be “liberal” if they were in Nazi Germany or Pinochet’s Chile. Then again, there are some “very fine people” who are genocidal racists, if anyone believes what 45 thinks of the KKK and the “alt-right”.
Let us hope that there is a real effort to reach these people with actual truth, and their youth with an actual education. And we do need to find a way to spread prosperity to rural areas, instead of clustering wealth in the larger metropolitan areas. These are frightening times for our nation and our world.
very well said !
Thank you, Duck, you have written nothing but the bitter truth. If Democrats cannot find a way to reach these people we are doomed to repeat this train wreck.
Hit the nail right on the head there, Duck. I couldn’t agree more
They’re not decent people. They’re lazy racists. Now, they’ll reap what they sowed. They haven’t seen a thing yet — wait till Trump’s tax “reform” takes full effect. Sadly, they dragged the rest of us into this mess and may have just destroyed the country. I’m not sure we’ll be able to walk the destruction back at this point, with Trump alienating us from our allies, etc.
Why are people always looking for the president or the government to fix everything for them ???
Its not that they want the government to fix things for them, they want a fair shake at a decent level of living that they cannot currently achieve. They want a fair minimum wage that will allow them to work forty hour work week and pay their rent, their bills and have a little left over for savings, something that used to happen. They want healthcare that covers them without bankrupting them. They want an educational system that doesn’t cause them to take on an enormous amount of debt when they are just starting out. The reason they look to the government to fix those things is because the government broke them, but reducing taxes on the 1%, doing the bidding of corporations and allowing them to offshore profits, and screwing over everyone with a for profit healthcare industry. Its pathetic that you don’t already know that, makes you no better than the people who continue to vote against their own best interests. For a prime example of the bs inflicted on the public look no further than the shenanigans the Republicans were up to last night where they provided immunity to big banks, credit card companies and others from lawsuits by their customers.
Because that’s what they were elected. But none have even tried to do the job.
Maybe because politicians create these messes and they should be cleaning them up. But they don’t. And these yokels still vote for the party that has put them in the mess in the first place. Because their mammys and pappys did.
Because they PROMISED them they would for their vote.
Poor people like her vote for people like Trump because they think that if they do that he will be so grateful that he will give them some of his money. They don’t realize that rich people hate parting with money and want everything free.
Thoughts and prayers!
LOLOL
But thoughts and prayers fix everything, don’t they? Look at all the thoughts and prayers after Sandy Hook and how they worked to prevent any more of these mass shootings happening? Didn’t they? “Thoughts and prayers do SFA! Except making the politicians who churn out the phrase every time think they’ve done their duty and then go have one of the meals they get a daily allowance of $181 for. Courtesy of the taxpayers, of course.
Boo-effin’-hoo! They were happy to vote for him when you thought he was only going to harm Black people, Hispanics and everyone in the LGBTQ community. Why on Earth did you think that poor people meant anything more to him than anyone else. He has no interest in anything that does not benefit TRUMP~!! Poor rubes…so many rubes!!
Too sad for words. People like this are so woefully uneducated that they lack the BASIC critical thinking skills required to not fall prey to hucksters like Rump.
I just don’t know how it’s possible to educate people who only believe god will save them?
Sorry, but these people will never make me feel sorry for them. They voted for Trump, let them suffer the consequences.
Except the rest of us are forced to suffer the consequences as well. Mark my words: Trump will cause a second Great Depression that will make 2008 look like the “good old days.”
HE DOESN”T CARE so don’t waste your breath.
It was the poorest town in America when Obama was elected the first time, after spending eight years hoping he would help them, they changed their vote and tried a different path. The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result. The area of Kentucky and question has voted straight Democrat for 67 years. I would call that insanity
I don’t have much sympathy for those who believed that pathological liar and voted for him. He despises poor people and only deals with the wealthy. He has no sense of empathy, remorse or even concern for others. Republican politicians across the nation are trying to roll back the minimum wage. Some States have already done that and it is making matters worse for those who have worked hard but don’t get a single break. I find it repulsive that Trump and his Cabinet perceive the working poor with so much disdain and disrespect as fellow human beings. There is no excuse for a Government that does not care for its citizenry. There is no legitimacy for such a government. It is the reason why the colonial Americans revolted against the British. It could happen again against our own government if Republicans are not careful.
Sadly they put their faith in a liar.He had no problem telling them everything they wanted to hear.He does not care about the poor at all! Why can’t people see that? How can they still believe in Trump? Soon they will sadly see when that poor woman loses her food stamps since they are cutting that back .SMH I just don’t know how anyone can believe this lying President
You can always eat the pages of your bible!
I bet these folks are all on KYNECT too. Guess who made that possible. President Obama. And guess who’s trying to destroy it. Drumpf.
Don’t forget the dingbats also voted Matt Bevin in as governor, well before Drumpf, who vowed to destroy it as well.
Evidently you don’t want to live, period, or you would not have voted Trump. He won’t make you live on false hope, he will kill you off with no insurance. Get a clue or buy a vowel.
I hate to say it, but these people in Beattyville are so ignorant and uneducated, they won’t be able to connect the dots. They will be misled and continue to think that their Savior Trump was on their side, and those LGBT/immigrants/Democrats kept Trump from helping those poor Beattyville bastards.
“If you want to live like a Republican, Vote for Democrats.”
Rhonda that should be the Democrats Battle Cry.
conned by the chief con man
You got had!!!! He never cared about the poor, he only wanted their vote. Most weren’t educated enough to understand that! Your President! How proud you must be.
Sadly for many in these towns, as long as black and hispanics are doing worse than they are, they’ll stomach it.
If you’re smart, you’ll vote that liar-in chief out in 2020 along with McConnell and Rand Paul. The Republicans aren’t going to do anything for the little man. I live in Kentucky also, but I live in Louisville. No way would I have voted for Trump
So they’re asking a Fascist, Communist Nazi sympathizer for help. Let me know how that works out for you Beattyvillains.
She is just misinformed. Republicans Dont support an increase in minimum wage. This is why Trump loves the uneducated.
Donald Trump never said he would raise the minimum wage, he did say he doesn’t believe in telling someone how much they should pay. Were they listening to DT or daydreaming
I think in this rural, close-knit area, the promise of trump improving their lives spread like wildfire without any of them having an individual thought or questioning the absurdity of him. They followed along like sheep, “Oh, yeah, yeah, trump. You? You’re votin’ fer him, right? Yeah, me too, and Suzi & Snarky, yeah, we’re all votin’ for him. He gonna come en visit & bring us chicken on a plate & stay fer supper. We’ll all gather ’round & chat ’cause we’ll be his new best friends. All we hafta do is vote fer him.”
(I don’t capitalize the traitor’s name. Never have, never will. He doesn’t deserve the respect.)
Hey… all you poor people in Beattyville, all you guys tired of winning yet?
🖕
I’m sorry, I just don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for these folks. I do, however, feel for their children, especially the ones with profound medical issues, who will suffer for their parents’ ignorance.
Trump has been president 9 mo. Obama was president for 8 years. And you people are blaming Trump for the poverty in America? Obama didn’t even help the black people in all those yrs. It was Obama who divided this country and Obama and Clinton who stole the American people’s money. And you have the stupidity to blame President Trump.
No one is blaming him for poverty. We are blaming him for no caring about poverty. Obama was in office to help black people and he didn’t, he helped all people. Someone earlier in the thread said they got unemployment, healthcare, and furthered their education under Obama. If that isn’t help I don’t know what is. trump is a liar and promised things to these people that he had no plan to follow through with.
you voted against your own best interest to get at brown people and you got what you deserve
I’m sorry to say is Trump doesn’t care for these people and its sad. He’s for the rich giving them low tax rates. And higher taxes for the poor. He’s a very selfish man. This town needs help and Trump’s not around to help them. He’s a lier and a thief.
Sympathy can be found in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.
I have a question? So by the way everyone is responding, Did she or them all of a sudden hit poverty when President Trump was elected? I think I read one was in poverty all her life? That truly means she was in poverty during eight years of Obama and everyone blames President Trump? Where was this article during Obama’s term? It seems that she/they are stuck on generational poverty. She needs to take responsibility and get some “I need to educate myself on how to break this poverty curse so I can stop depending on someone to give me something but motivate my butt to find a way to get into a better life” class. Ya think??…
Moron – noun, “A person notably stupid or lacking in good judgement.”
Keep voting republican, Kentucky.
Remember when the citizens f Kentucky voted for a governor that ran on the platform of overturing ACA, then turned around crying to WORLD NEWS that they couldn’t afford certain meds and would die? He told them they wouldn’t have to worry about lazy blacks living off their backs. In a state damn near 90% white! My grandmother used to say: The grave you dig for me will be 10x’s deeper for you.” She also used to say, “The sins of the fathers are revisited among the sons and you reap what you sow. ” I don’t feel sorry and I KNOW this is only the beginning. Maybe I should post some of the scary things in Revelations to really shake them up.
People please. You wanted this. You asked for this. You VOTED for this! You’ve been had, big time. Trump cares for nobody except himself; always has, always will. I heard on the news today he’s fixing to throw his son-in-law under the bus to save his own skin. The DNC is no better. If you want politicians that really care about the regular people of this country, look to the progressives. Namely Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard. They are the only ones that REALLY care about the rank and file citizens of this country. Tulsi 2020!
Are you actually serious, or are you trolling. Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard are not progressives. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are progressives. Bernie Sanders is a card-carrying member of the Socialist Party, and proud to call his self a socialist. No, despite what your higher institution of learning have taught you, socialism does not mean getting together with your friends, as 98 and a half percent of individuals between 18 and 35 believe. As Benjamin Franklin once said, Tis better to have many think of you as a fool, then open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Furthermore, for all of you people that support progressivism and think it is a wonderful thing. The last election cycle when Hillary Clinton was running, she said she preferred to call herself a progressive of the Woodrow Wilson era. Maybe you should use your smart phones and computers for something other than spewing your ignorance. Research Woodrow Wilson, and see what his progressivism did for America. That Hillary Clinton is so proud of and wants to liken herself too. Prior to the Woodrow Wilson Administration, blacks were treated every bit as equal as whites, able to hold offices in this government. Woodrow Wilson would not even allow them to drink out of the same water fountain. And changed many laws that set the blacks population on the course it is today. So rahraw hoorah let’s support progressivism. Get your head out of your ass and learn what you are actually supporting before your dumbass finishes destroying America
I weep for my nation, when I realize how many people look to the government to give them handouts. The Russian president said in 1956 that they would never have to attack America, that they would feed America small doses of socialism and over time we would fall from the tree like ripen fruit into communism. His predictions were spot-on. Half of the people that claim to be Democrats, obviously doesn’t even know what the Democratic party stands for today. Voted for a card-carrying socialist member Bernie Sanders. Every one of the post on this page has mentioned or alluded to the government fixing the problem that the people face. The only job that the federal government has is to provide defense for this nation and its people. The government started introducing socialism with Social Security imagine that. The welfare state was created in the 50s and every election since the members running for office try to tell people what else the government is going to give them in order to buy their vote. Up until 1886 if a politician tried to buy a single vote they were removed from the ticket and placed in jail. Seriously, every single comment on this page including the author of the article has been so indoctrinated into believing the government should fix your problem. One comment actually referred to Ronald Reagan and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. He should have also mentioned Ronald Reagan’s quote of in America’s current situation, the government cannot fix the problem, because the government is the problem. Wake up she-ople
Trump offered lies, easy answers and hate and you voted for them. Guess what, believing lies catches up to you. But not to worry, the next liar will come along and say reality is the lie so believe more easy answers, lies and doublethink and you will fall for it again because thats what you really stand for. It doesn’t have to be this way but you are the architects of your own misfortune.
You voted for him. You have nothing to complain about…..
`They’ll reap what they sowed. And they haven’t seen a thing yet. Wait till Trump’s tax plan takes effect. They’ll be the hardest hit in the second Great Depression.