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Showing Original Post only (View all)Poor hardworking miners, their troubles are great [View all]
After their pathetically jubilant support of Donald Trump and his promises to bring back coal mining jobs, miners are slowly wakening to the fact that a repeal of ACA will make it much more difficult for them to receive black lung benefits and treatment. Before 2009, the burden was on the miners to prove that their carbonized lungs were the result of working in the mines. With the Byrd amendment to the ACA, miners diagnosed with black lung who have worked 15 years or more in the mines are assumed to have contracted their disease through their work, a common-sense provision that greatly eased obtaining benefits. Buyer's remorse, the most common side-effect of voting against your own best interests. Poor miners.
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Wakin' up to morning in America... the nightmare that is the Nazi-Elect has only just begun! (Just want to scream and cry.)
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2017
#1
Nope. They voted for a lying, racist, misogynist pig. They get what they paid for.
Coventina
Jan 2017
#13
No, I don't want misogynists, ignoramuses, and gun-humpers in the Democratic party either.
Coventina
Jan 2017
#24
Well, they shouldn't be able to do so. But if you've ever read those mouth-breathers on line, they
Coventina
Jan 2017
#33
Well, they can talk about it on line all they want, but reaity is that it can't and won't happen.
SlimJimmy
Jan 2017
#61
I hope you are right. But I really believe their frustrations will boil over into street violence.
Coventina
Jan 2017
#63
Well, I won't dismiss your concerns, but since I'm armed nearly everywhere I go, I might have
SlimJimmy
Jan 2017
#64
I'm a retired law enforcement officer. I've been carryng a weapon for more than 40 years.
SlimJimmy
Jan 2017
#68
I don't mind you carrying it. What I mind is the attitude that as a 16 year old, biking home from
Coventina
Jan 2017
#69
I get it. I really do. I didn't carry a weapon when I was 16 years old either.
SlimJimmy
Jan 2017
#70
Again: My point is, not everyone is suited to be a warrior. And that's what you have to be to
Coventina
Jan 2017
#72
Wow, that's a scary thought. Not that they will actually deport citizens, but that
SlimJimmy
Jan 2017
#92
You think she is the only one to think like this? How do you think trump got to where he is?
AgadorSparticus
Jan 2017
#95
Don't waste your time on that one. Because I pointed out that guns are not the answer,
Coventina
Jan 2017
#96
I don't have those answers. What I'm suggesting is that the anti-RW forces must
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jan 2017
#111
They should know that Dems care about them, because of our platform and policies..
Kahuna7
Jan 2017
#58
Not possible....they knew better and voted away their health care benefits anyway.
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2017
#26
That is simply willful ignorance. Like the idiots who hold signs that say "Keep gov't out of
Coventina
Jan 2017
#97
They were offered a better way and refused it. They were offered the information and refused to
Coventina
Jan 2017
#104
How can we win these people over? They believe Pres O shut down the mines,
TheDebbieDee
Jan 2017
#71
None. You can't teach everyone. And some people have to learn the hard way.
AgadorSparticus
Jan 2017
#83
I have to agree. They were told and told and told, and they are not only dragging down themselves
RKP5637
Jan 2017
#37
They just don't get it that THEY are the LOSERS he was talking about the entire time. F, I'm so
RKP5637
Jan 2017
#38
Trump lied to more than the miners, he is full of lies. The demand for coal is going down.
Thinkingabout
Jan 2017
#5
I doubt Trump cares about retraining the coal miners for other occupations
Thinkingabout
Jan 2017
#55
That was part of the small print they didn't notice under the "white supremacy" headlines of Trump's
Squinch
Jan 2017
#6
No tears from me. If you vote against your own best interest you live with it and shut up.
Vinca
Jan 2017
#14
They voted against themselves and we're all going to suffer for it. Hard to feel sorry.
onecaliberal
Jan 2017
#31
And their kids get sent off to likely one of Trump's stupid wars to come along. n/t
RKP5637
Jan 2017
#39