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KENTUCKY’S
KING
grandfather sat in the gray easy
chairs in the living room, next to
the old grandfather clock and the
stereo that never played anything
but traditional country and the
truest gospel. It was sad, Fred
Buckley says, those last moments.
He told Wade that the “sky is the
limit,” that you could count on a
company like John Deere.
“You got to go where the work is,”
Fred Buckley acknowledges — a sentiment he’d felt when he first commuted to the plant from Tennessee.
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In Augusta, Wade settled into a
duplex close to all the amenities
he could ever need. He marvels
at John Deere’s resources, at how
not every task requires stacks of
paperwork. He loves that everything at his job is new. There are
opportunities to collaborate, to
test, to invent.
“You are just free,” he
says. “I have options now.”
Jason Cherkis is a reporter and
researcher for The Huffington Post.
Zach Carter is The Huffington Post’s
senior political economy reporter. Paul
Blumenthal contributed reporting.
McConnell
walks back
to his office
after the
Senate
voted down
the Housepassed
stopgap
spending bill
on Sept. 23,
2011.