[itsthejourney]

These folks have had their head in the deep, deep ground far too long. Time to come up and see the light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ

[ought-six]

This is satire, right?

[BARLF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ

Some one send this to Cecil Rip Van Winkle.

[BellStar]

President Cecil E. Roberts is the typical Jude's goat to lead the lambs to slaughter and he gets big bucks for it.

[Mac from Cleveland]

“Turkeys on the farm hail new Mid-November double feedings-’finally we’re getting some respect around here’, one says”

[Mom MD]

Words fail me (and that doesn’t happen very often)

[austinaero]

“He will invest in the future of coal in America,” Roberts said”

Wow, this person lives in an alternate universe. How does Roberts’ claim square with the Obama plan to “bankrupt” the coal industry?

[realcleanguy]

Ah, he said he would bankrupt your industry

[reagan_fanatic]

“He will invest in the future of coal in America,” Roberts said

[whatshotandwhatsnot]

Apparently, Cecil has died of brain failure. His body just doesn’t realize it.

[pineybill]

They are unbelievable. If the environmental fascist RFK Jr is named Interior Secretary, our end is nigh. The best investment you can make will be to reinvent those old wringer-washers and market it. Energy will be incredibly expensive, and rare. We are another Zimbabwe in the making, and Obama will be telling people how wonderful it is.

[layman]

a new day for American coal miners

Yep .... starting soon you won't have to go to work anymore.

[DejaJude]

When will the bumper sticker come out that says, “Obama lied, jobs died”?

[B Knotts]

I think we have to admit to ourselves that this issue didn’t work for McCain because he had basically the same position as Obama...he just didn’t express it as stupidly as Hussein.

Next time, we need to nominate a conservative.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I'm laughing too hard to write.

THIS is the candidate who is going to bankrupt their industry!

[arthurus]

Hussein is going to “support” the families of working coal miners even as he bankrupts their employers?

[hosepipe]

DEMOCRATS?... (Eddie Murphy laugh)....

[kimchi lover]

Wow, guess he missed the “bankrupt” memo.

[Fishrrman]

[ “President-elect Obama has been consistent in his support for working families and our issues throughout his career,” Roberts said. “He has made it clear that as President, he will continue that support and will make our needs his priorities.
“He will invest in the future of coal in America,” Roberts said ]

Being a simple (some say simple-minded!) working-class “prole” myslef, I’ve always admired the miners and had an appreciation for the hard work they do, and the culture and songs that have come out of that industry.

The struggles of the coal workers vs. “the owners” provides illustration of why unions came about, and why - for these men - they were necessary, a matter of physcial as well as economic survival. For them, in the early decades of the twentieth century, there could be no middle ground. Back then, one seldom left Harlan alive...

But times have changed.

As a unionized worker myself, I continue to be amazed at the blind loyalty rank-and-file union workers cling to. Perhaps its like clinging to guns and religion, can’t say. I _can_ say that I used to be that way, myself, but no more. Like David Horowitz, I began having “second thoughts” and chose to cross the politcal lines of fire about 17 years ago.

If someone like Cecil Roberts - the head of the union - is foolish enough to believe that an Obama administration is going to be friendly towards that industry, well... what is there really to say?

Would it be an understatement to reckon that these folks are going to be... let down.....?

- John

[Eye of Unk]

[Iron Munro]

Bright Future For Former Coal Miners
Says Obama Administration