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Coal company announces layoffs in response to Obama win
cnn money ^ | 11/9/2012 | By James O'Toole

Posted on 11/09/2012 4:13:08 PM PST by tobyhill

A coal company headed by a prominent Mitt Romney donor has laid off more than 160 workers in response to President Obama's election victory.

Murray Energy said Friday that it had been "forced" to make the layoffs in response to the bleak prospects for the coal industry during Obama's second term. In a prayer circulated by the company, CEO Robert Murray said Americans had voted "in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom."

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bhoenergy; coal; layoffs
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1 posted on 11/09/2012 4:13:10 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Here it comes, just like this economist warned.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/vampires-werewolves-and-the-post-election-market-reaction/


2 posted on 11/09/2012 4:14:58 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: tobyhill

Coal Companies aren’t the only ones laying off.

The Stock Market is tanking.

Americans who voted for Obama don’t give a damn, half of them had no intention of working anyway, as long as the unemployment and welfare checks roll in, and they got free phones.


3 posted on 11/09/2012 4:17:31 PM PST by Venturer
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To: tobyhill

Plenty of shale oil jobs available. I suggest the coal workers get off their asses and head for fracking territory.


4 posted on 11/09/2012 4:24:52 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: tobyhill

HOORAY Murray Energy! Prepare. Persevere.


5 posted on 11/09/2012 4:29:19 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Wolfie

>>I suggest the coal workers get off their asses and head for fracking territory.

Are you joking?? Get off their asses? They were coal miners until their asshole boss decided to throw a temper tantrum and move them from employed to unemployed.


6 posted on 11/09/2012 4:30:09 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: tobyhill
War on coal.

I figured Ohioans would hear about it and vote to keep their electricity prices from "skyrocketing" (Obama 2008). Natural gas users should not get complacent because Obama wants to tax and curtail that too. Anyway when I looked up the war on coal and mostly the media ignored it except to say 1) there's no war on coal and 2) coal is bad and dirty and needs to be phased out.

7 posted on 11/09/2012 4:30:44 PM PST by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: palmer
My daughter — seventh grader — told me yesterday that her friends were talking about the election at lunch. All were "Democrats." They went around the table asking.

When they came to my daughter, she said she was a "Republican."

This caused her "friends" to start sort of mildly ragging on her. Nothing serious. One of them said to her "so you're for fracking." I asked her "what's fracking" and she shrugged and said "I don't know."

8 posted on 11/09/2012 4:36:00 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: tobyhill

The comments on this article are unbelievable


9 posted on 11/09/2012 4:40:44 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: tobyhill

Hopefully, the miners that voted for Obama can find a job at Mikey D’s. sarc.


10 posted on 11/09/2012 4:43:32 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Personal Responsibility

F the coal miners. They reap what they sow with their voting for Obama.


11 posted on 11/09/2012 4:44:59 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: tobyhill

They probably have a plan for all the companies making layoffs, perhaps a 5-Year Plan. Centralisation, curtailment of freedom (those which remain). Sound familiar?


12 posted on 11/09/2012 4:52:09 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Wolfie
Plenty of shale oil jobs available. I suggest the coal workers get off their asses and head for fracking territory.

Except that the Obama administration now has fracking squarely within their sights...and, even as we speak, are preparing regulations that will make it economically impossible.

Those jobs aren't ever going to happen. Not after the election last Tuesday.

13 posted on 11/09/2012 4:56:25 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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To: Personal Responsibility
The comments on this article are unbelievable

Yep, reading them I feel like I'm in the middle of an Ayn Rand novel.
How long until the Directive outlawing layoffs?

14 posted on 11/09/2012 5:10:53 PM PST by kanawa
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To: tobyhill

LOL. Best comment was from a Chris Clark who was already in the “It’s not Obama’s fault mode”. The CNN article is now actually blaming Nixon.


15 posted on 11/09/2012 5:11:54 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: tobyhill

LOL. Best comment was from a Chris Clark who was already in the “It’s not Obama’s fault mode”. The CNN article is now actually blaming Nixon.


16 posted on 11/09/2012 5:12:07 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: kanawa

The scary part is that you can see where the people commenting on that article would probably agree with a Directive 10-289!


17 posted on 11/09/2012 5:32:50 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: Wolfie

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957771/posts


18 posted on 11/09/2012 5:41:05 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Personal Responsibility

http://twitchy.com/2012/11/09/despicable-libs-claim-layoff-bomb-is-revenge-by-un-american-business-owners/


19 posted on 11/09/2012 5:43:06 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Bryanw92

It’s not a temper tantrum; it’s a shrug.


20 posted on 11/09/2012 5:47:03 PM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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