Franklin Price Poet Rhyme

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We moved to Spindale, North Caroiina several years ago. It is a town of wonderful, hardworking people who have been left without jobs; which have been shipped offshore to make the rich richer. Seems the right thing to do... NOT!!

You Need To Come To Spindale

You Need to Come to Spindale
By Franklin Price
12/6/2016

You need to come to Spindale
To see what offshore jobs can do
Closed down all the textile mills
And brought in nothing new

Sent the jobs to other lands
To make the rich a little more
While leaving loyal workers
No cash for the grocery store

Mom's and pops shut down their shops
No need to have them there
While the rich man buys another house
With the extra money, that seems fair

The railroad gone, that came through town
Heard no more its whistle's sound
Replaced by a new jogging path
For the unemployed who are around

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Chris Green December 6, 2016 at 8:36 AM This is such a sad and heartbreaking poem Franklin. It is unimaginable that this still exists in our country. Someone needs to stand up for the working class and bring prosperity back to this and all of the other towns that are facing the same dilemma. I am fortunate where I live, we have yet to experience this kind of thing, but you never know. Franklin Price December 6, 2016 at 5:22 PM Hopefully, in the next four years, we will see some of our jobs come back. I think extiles may never return. They have been gone since the 80's and 90's;a long time now. It would e nice for areas, such as this to have trainin programs to allow participation in new technologies. We did get a Facebook data center in the area several years ago. That;s something, anyway. Thanks for your comments