"Duncan, As a transplant here, I take offense at your comments. I am in Casper and manage a business here. We can't seem to get good help here. Our local competition( for jobs) Mc D is paying the high schooler 9.50hr to flip burgers. That is normal for the entire area. If you like freedom this is the place to go. live and let live is what I see to a great extent. Like Danl says try IL or Ma for a eye opening experience. my .02"
Wow 9.50 an hour. Is everyone here a high schooler? Could you live in Casper on $9.50 an hour? I've heard that the new Wal-mart in Casper is hiring mentally disabled people to man the cash registers, because the locals refuse to work for $8.50 an hour, they can't afford to work for such a low amount. I never found much of anything good about Casper. It always impressed me as nothing but an oil town with constant lay offs. Mac do is not paying $9.50 an hour in Cheyenne and there is no Mac-do in many parts of the state.
The wal-mart distribution center in Cheyenne is playing this same game of low pay and then whining about the fact that no one is interested in their operation. Wal-mart knew before they moved here that there would be a labor shortage and that people from Ft. Collins and Greeley would not be able to commute that far. So why did they do it? Why are they suddenly shipping in cheap labor from Mexico? Ummmm. If you are from Casper then why not ask the locals why they refuse to work for $9.5 an hour. Doesn't the market set the pay?
"Seems we ought do the neighborly thing--DUNCAN--and keep our mouths shut. I live in Wyoming, therefore, I can talk about it. I do not live in CO, NM, CA, IL, etc, therefore I CANNOT talk about what happens there. Doesn't matter that at one point you lived here. Actions speak--I live here and I am working to prevent the downfall of a wonderful place."
I live in Carpenter, Wyoming and own property here. I've lived in Kemmerer and have worked near Rock Springs. Not at one point, I live here now. You need to learn to read. I never told any of you to shut up. Not much freedom in this movement. Many of you act like local government officials, if you don't like what a guy has to say about something then shut him up.
I get to talk about any state or place I want to talk about wether I live there or not and I never limit myself.
"Besides too much time on the mind numbing internet make Jack a boy who looses touch with reality."
I think that many of you have lost touch with reality. I have yet to see a surge in the states population since the inception of this FSW program began over seven years ago. In fact that poputlaion hasn't gone up much at all in the last twenty years and when they finish drilling fror oil it will go back down.The reality is that it ain't happening and the big reason is ain't happening is because the majority of people cannot or will not conform to your lifestyles. Anarchy and self suffiency all look good on paper in some cheap sci-fi novel, but in practice it only works for the few. It can't work for a person who might be disabled and needs to be close to a hospital, which barely if at all exists in a place like Crook County. It won't work if you are oh say a lawyer or a doctor. Alot of time a persons profession sets the city and or town that they live. Wyoming has a very small manufacturing base and you might want to asks yourselves why this is. What is the mainstay of Crook County? Cattle and farming.
Does anyone have any remote idea as to why women were given the right to vote in Wyoming? It had nothing to do with womens rights and the sufferage movement. Wyoming wanted statehood so that they could get federal revenues and other stuff and so they need more voters on paper to appease the fed into granting them statehood and to ensure that they could get statehood they granted widows who held large tracts of property the right to vote. Land Barons were behind this caper. The good ole boys club.
Why was Tom Horn never given a fair trial and hung for a crime he never commited? The local land barons didn't want to hang for the crime of murder and so they set Horn up. The Cheyenne Cattleman's Association may no longer exist in name, but it still exist in practice in SE Wyoming. The good ole boys clubs still exist in WY just like they still exists in the ohter 49 states. I saw a biker get murdered at a bar in Cheyenne and his killers were never even arrested, thanks to the good ole boys club of Cheyenne.
Why do you think that there are three indian tribes in and around Riverton? Who and what do you think put them there? How did two tribes from SE CO end up in the middle of WY? If you are in Riverton ask one of the locals why. Wyoming is no better or worse than other places for government corruption.
What are you people afriad of? The truth? You moved here thinking that WY would be your Utopia? Who fed you people that garbage? I've found that SW SD has more freedom and liberty than does SE WY. Why not move there? Many of you stated that you all want to move to the most free place in amerika why not southern Montana?