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Wounded Bear

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14. Coal is a dying industry...

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:55 AM

Mar 2018

the big (should I say real? ) question is about what to do about the displaced miners.

Typically Repubs say, "Tough shit. Go find another job, or go die quietly where I don't have to look at you or spend any money on you. Oh, and BTW, I want that pension money back."

Dems typically want to provide medical care, protect the pensions, and assist people in finding new jobs, assuming they are capable of working after a career in the mines.

The choice is pretty clear to me.

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Coal Country Appears to Reconsider It's Political Futures [View all] peggysue2 Mar 2018 OP

Massey Energy CEO Staph Mar 2018 #1

Oops! peggysue2 Mar 2018 #4

Finally we see some voting for self - interest which should signal the doom of Republicans...they Demsrule86 Mar 2018 #8

The Blankenship run is salt in the wound, a twist of the knife ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #2

I couldn't believe it either peggysue2 Mar 2018 #5

I really like Ojeda and I think he will win. Luciferous Mar 2018 #3

Don't know a whole lot about Ojeda yet peggysue2 Mar 2018 #6

That is exactly what Hilllary mercuryblues Mar 2018 #10

Yes! peggysue2 Mar 2018 #11

I find it interesting mercuryblues Mar 2018 #13

That, too peggysue2 Mar 2018 #16

"Appears To" the key phrase here . . . hatrack Mar 2018 #7

Yep. peggysue2 Mar 2018 #9

Wake up America! oasis Mar 2018 #12

Coal is a dying industry... Wounded Bear Mar 2018 #14

Well they call it "fossil fuels" for a reason! Initech Mar 2018 #15