a billion-dollar coal field. the last coal mines i worked at, i made base salary was $94,000 a year. i also taught vocational school, and most of the kids that i had said, well, i don t need this. i m gonna go in the coal mines. - there s just an education piece there now that we re trying to instill in some of the people that still have that mentality that coal was king, and, you know, we don t doubt that, but we try to think outside the box and look at some other some other opportunities that might be there. - get more physical! let s go. run! - the mountview golden knights have long carried the mantle of the town as perpetual underdogs. mostly the children of miners, many from very difficult situations at home. - why you walking? hurry up! - this week, it s homecoming. - whistle! - coach larry thomson has, of late, imposed some order and higher academic standards on the knights. there are high hopes.
about a battery belt. it sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesn t it? yes, and there s some conscious echoes of that. indeed, where i was in kentucky, one of the reasons they ve sited this in farmland in rural kentucky, that s the. there s two reasons, actually. it s the old coal field that has closed down and they re trying to employ old miners in these newjobs, very specifically, so it s meant to kind of help these left behind areas, these areas that they now say suffered from a period of very open globalisation where china became the manufacturer for the world. but it s also meant to make up lost ground in key strategic industries that will dominate this century, where they feel they re behind china, where they are behind china. but that does sound very much like a democratic party policy. i mean, would the republicans want to follow through with that if they win in next year?
indeed, where i was in kentucky, one of the reasons they ve sited this in farmland in rural kentucky, that s the. there s two reasons, actually. it s the old coal field that has closed down and they re trying to employ old miners in these newjobs, very specifically, so it s meant to kind of help these left behind areas, these areas that they now say suffered from a period of very open globalisation where china became the manufacturer for the world. but it s also meant to make up lost ground in key strategic industries that will dominate this century, where they feel they re behind china, where they are behind china. but that does sound very much like a democratic party policy. i mean, would the republicans want to follow through with that if they win in next year? you have these massive carrots, kind of economic bribes, essentially. that does sound like the sort of stuff the democrats would have wanted to do.
anthony: linda runs 5 loaves & 2 fishes , a food bank that holds many of the lives here together during tough times. bob: gracious god, we just thank you for this day that we re able to give food out again, this is not a regular give-out. watch over us and protect us, help us to keep cool heads. father, we pray over the food we re about to eat, for the nourishment our body is blessed, in the name of christ, amen. group: amen. anthony: the coal that came out of this area built america, right? linda: yes. bob: mcdowell county alone was called the billion-dollar coal field. and the people that were in charge at the time didn t take advantage of all that money in case something did happen to the coal mine. bob: we got spoiled. the last coal mines i worked at i made base salary was