The place I work at resides in a county run by a good-old-boy network of businesses and politicians. This means no Olive Garden restaurant because Mary Lou's roach infested eatery and Bubba's greasy-spoon diner would go out of business. This means no Lowe's because Fred's Hardware would have to offer more of what people want. Since Mary Lou, Bubba, Fred, and all of their kins have ties into the political system, well, it's political suicide to disappoint family. So, this large population of everyone else who's isn't kin have to travel to neighboring counties to eat better and buy what they need.
But all of this is about to change. In January, one of the old-guard politicians died and a younger upstart took his place. Yesterday, several of my fellow workers who live in the county did nothing but talk about the exciting news: There would be several walmart jobs available as a Superstore opened in the county by fall of this year.
Hopefully, this means a very welcomed and much needed change in an area of high unemployment and high taxes. All it took was a slight change in the political machinery and those two magic words "election year".
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