Waste Virginia. Open for Business.
So it looks like the Chumps in Charleston are taking lessons from their similarly disillusioned, sexually repressed, chronically constipated older siblings in DC. Just keep wasting time on unconstitutional bills that will be vetoed. Instead of anything that will help the living, working, hanging-on-by-their teeth people. Like a prevailing wage. Or like making teaching in WV an attractive option, instead of hiring recently graduated college students from Teach for America WITH NO TEACHING CREDENTIALS to fill in the gaps. Or making drug companies more accountable for the horror of addiction -- oh but it's ok to save the poor bastard once he's overdosed. ....at the same time, they're wonderingwhy young people are fleeing. Yeah that works.
So, while our yahoos are arguing about when a WV's life begins and gets to go work in some obsolete field like coal mining, or with outdated technology(Frontier),or cooking some meth in their double-wide, because they can't get a job, because they lack skills, because their schools were understaffed, because teachers are fleeing for their lives, Colorado is trying to figure out what to do with $500,000,000 surplus gained from weed. See video:. https://www.facebook.com/... You'll never ever see this happen in West By Gawd Virginia. Because, well. People would be getting high and shit. Also, most likely the money would be made by small, local businesses; not corporate beasts like Walmart and Dollar General. Meaning they'd be harder to control with threats of lowering the prevaling wage, reducing work hours so they don't have to pay for health insurance, threatening to drug test you, etc. Right?