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In reply to the discussion: Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining [View all]GaryCnf
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You think WikiSource is "Wikipedia light?"
You came on here low-balling the number of high paying jobs that are being lost as the coal business declines by including only the workers in the ground and ignoring all of the other blue collar jobs that are also being lost AND you used it to make a personal attack on another DU member. When you got busted, you attack WikiSource (simply for being WikiSource) even though, when all the high-paying coal company jobs being lost are considered, it says exactly the same thing as your source.
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You don't know the first thing about what these families want. They aren't coal industry lobbyist, they just want jobs that pay like their current and/or old jobs.
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Same deal. They're workers, not lobbyist.
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So you want to go there . . . fine. I NEVER SAID we in the black community stayed home because so many in our party spent month after month calling working people misogynists and racists for not jumping on board a plan to shuffle them off into lower-paying jobs. I said WORKING PEOPLE, people who said economic anxiety was their number one concern, people who - when they did come out - voted in a majority for Secretary Clinton, stayed home because of it.
WE (although not me personally) stayed home because Secretary Clinton and President Obama are light years apart when it comes to talking about and doing something about the problems many of us face and, seeing as how we kept hearing how the election was in the bag, a lot of us just went back to dealing with our own problems instead of getting fired up about the election.
Of course, you don't want to talk about that so you just make some s**t up so you can, once again, make a snide comment instead of dealing with reality.
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Jobs in renewable energy? Did you read the OP?
This isn't training for a handful of jobs in renewable energy (not that the jobs in renewable energy that this training would qualify them for are that high-paying anyway), it's training for jobs, like vocational nursing jobs and low-level computer programming jobs, which will never pay half of what they made before.
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Go to West Virginia, go to Kentucky, go to the other industrial wastelands like Youngstown, Ohio . . . take some pictures of what they got for the "boatload of money" those poor abused suburbanites - which some Democrats believe are the key to winning - were "forced to pay for." While you're at it, go to Detriot, go to Gary, go to Houston because those of us who grew up there had to listen to how "boatloads of money" had been poured into our neighborhoods too. Get back to me then.
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Everybody knows coal is dead. I said it right off the bat. This isn't about preserving the coal industry. It's about doing justice for workers. Demanding justice is not whining, although it may seem that way to folks who live privileged lives out in the burbs. This country's wealth was created by stealing the sweat of the less powerful, the oppressed, and the enslaved. Wanting it returned is no sin.