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Obama's war on coal is minimized as a cause of this economic misery. But the writer does okay in portraying the human casualties and their few options.
1 posted on 08/28/2014 11:46:12 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There’s only one left for him to do: vote Democrat just to show those cruel heartless republicans. /sarc


2 posted on 08/28/2014 11:48:03 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Brad from Tennessee

flee?

in a welfare state?


3 posted on 08/28/2014 11:48:09 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Hope and Change.............


4 posted on 08/28/2014 11:53:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I might be persuaded to feel badly for Mr. Estep and his co-workers but, having been to Logan and surrounding environs many times, I have this sneaking suspicion that they all voted for Obama.


6 posted on 08/28/2014 11:58:19 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The story is not only about what environmentalism has done to the industry, it’s what the United Mine Workers Union did to it too.

Unionized businesses are like giant slugs that can’t move or do anything quickly or adapt to changes. The slime that holds them down is the Union and its marriage to the National Labor Board and cronyism and pandering that produces only a positive benefit for its ranking leaders and members. The “worker bee” is simply forgotten.

We have the worlds largest reserves of coal and look how the liberal environmental Nazis have destroyed the businesses and professions that can get it out of the ground and actually use it for energy.

Political Correctness is destroying our nation.


9 posted on 08/28/2014 12:12:23 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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Raise the import tariffs and bring back American industries.

This would probably help the coal industry, but even if it doesn’t, there would be more jobs. And the tighter the job market is, the more companies seek out low wage, high unemployment areas.


10 posted on 08/28/2014 12:14:34 PM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Raise the import tariffs and bring back American industries.

This would probably help the coal industry, but even if it doesn’t, there would be more jobs. And the tighter the job market is, the more companies seek out low wage, high unemployment areas.


11 posted on 08/28/2014 12:14:34 PM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Not much to do in Logan or elsewhere except coal, teach school, be a cop.

Logan General Hospital
Dec 1946


12 posted on 08/28/2014 12:14:39 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This is a war being won by Obama and the enviros. Where is the army on the coal miners side. Once upon a time the UMW was a feared and fearsome force, now = nothing.


17 posted on 08/28/2014 12:31:11 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Brad from Tennessee

BUT these inbred RETARDS will continue to vote DEMOCRATE! A$$HOLES!


18 posted on 08/28/2014 12:40:41 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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‘......even amid an economic recovery,’

OK, Where is this economic recovery I have heard so much about? I have heard FIVE different numbers for first quarter growth from -1% to +4%. What is the real number? Raw numbers have shown a continued contraction in the economy for over five years, REAL numbers show a depression!


21 posted on 08/28/2014 1:03:05 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I visited Norton Virginia yesterday. The business I visited is suffering badly from dying customers. When customers die sales disappear. Many companies are just gone.

The friends of coal don’t realize that they are the sworn enemies of the envirowacko moonbats. They are in a war, a real war. The moonbats must be gone, wiped out for the business and life to recover


23 posted on 08/28/2014 1:29:30 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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Change! Once you had a job, now you don’t. Rejoice! Change!


26 posted on 08/28/2014 1:44:49 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Just about the only thing Obama didn’t lie about was his promise to destroy the coal and electric power industries.


27 posted on 08/28/2014 1:53:51 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Democrats love poor blacks - that's why they keep them on the Plantation)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Ps. I lived near Sharon step on Stratton street. This guy has to be related.

Sharon and her husband owned a music store in Logan last time I saw her. Circa 1985.

Thanx for the memories.


32 posted on 08/28/2014 2:31:53 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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