Annie’s Reviews > The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker > Status Update

it's so bizarre to me that for a group that loves the 'bootstraps' ideology, they would still hate on people who put themselves through college to get a govt job that pays better than 'seasonal lumberjack'.

"We shouldn't have government funded insurance because then people in Milwaukee, who are undeserving, would have it and that's crap."
Me: F*** you very much, sir.

"It is unfair that I work really hard and have to pay taxes when I don't see money coming back to my community."
Me: Yeah, that does suck. I'm sympathetic.
"It is unfair that teachers get health insurance that I'm paying for with taxes when I can't get health insurance."
Me: Yeah, that does suck. I'm sympathetic. Everyone should have health insurance.

"higher income folks talked about education as a means toward self-actualization, networking, and professionalization and as an important element of a healthy democracy. But lower-income folks talked about it as means toward a job."

Yup. :\

Good read - hopefully this will be useful for talking to people in my community about current events. I find myself nodding and saying, "yeah, this is a big problem that urban people don't understand," when reading the transcripts but then they go and say something off the wall racist and I'm like, "you know what? Screw you and your crappy roads."