Posted on 09/17/2016 11:19:33 AM PDT by mdittmar
America’s coal miners have sacrificed much for our nation, and we have an obligation to support them and their families. Unlike Donald Trump who says he’s with us but has nothing to show beyond the bluster, Hillary Clinton has our back. She proved it with a detailed $30 billion plan to revitalize coal communities, while Donald Trump says ‘trust me.’ She is proving it again today with her support of the Miners Protection Act. From the bargaining table to the ballot box, working people know who stands with us, not by words, but action.
The only UMW official I ever had any respect for was Arthur Miller. He at least was an actual miner. He also was part of the reform movement that ousted the Tony Boyle Mob thugs. What did Trumka do when he became head of the UMW? He hired many of the Boyle crew back into UMW positions. Now he has long since left the UMW behind. He is now President of the AFL-CIO. The UMW was just his career “stepping stone” and like all “stepping stones” can be discarded when not needed. Miners you’ve been discarded!
Wake up!
wtf is a coal community? Another temporary welfare biscuit? Democrats are traitors , robbing people to pay others to do nothing but ask for handouts at election time.
What kind of Union is a Union not supporting jobs?
Hillary’s gonna fix it for the coal miners. She will put them all on the dole and in subsidized housing from which they will never emerge.
She will ask the AFL-CIO to abide by the Clinton Foundation rules. They will be asked to pass 5.7% on to the coal miners.
I’d be anxious to see what percentage of voters in coal country go for Trump.......we’ll soon find out.
Don’t worry coal people. After you loose your job, family and house we will set up some programs where you can learn a new trade so you can move somewhere else to maybe find a job. Sometimes people have to sacrifice.
Trumpka is retarded, except for his S0r0$ $tipend.
Not sure how this turned out but Stillwater used to have plenty of Palladium that was successfully used in Catalytic Converters a decade or two ago.
Montana has no shortage of water allocation legal fun....
Good luck with convincing these people who Obama put out of work. Good luck with that.
Trumka is going to get Trumped.
Couldn’t happen to a “nicer” guy.
5.56mm
Bravo.
Your Grandfather must have been a hell of a man.
Emigrated from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Came here illiterate. When they drafted him in 1917 Grandpa spoke English with no accent & had taught himself to read & write. Only English was spoken in his house.
Pvt, 601st Engineer Bn, AEF, WWI . They needed miners who could bore charge holes & set dynamite.
Coal miner through the 1920s. He worked out every day after shift so he wouldn’t develop a stoop. Then the Depression hit. Continued to dig coal out of closed mines to heat his house. Kept a victory garden. Hunted game for the table.
Used his 1936 Bonus check to make down payment on a house. Paid it off by 1940.
Went to school & got his stationary boiler license. Tended boiler for a factory until 65. It looked like a locomotive without wheels to me as a kid.
Suffered a stroke at 70 and passed away four years later. Mom tells me to this day how a friend invited her on a trip to Hawaii in the summer of 1941 & Grandpa said, “Hell no, those Japs are going to hit that place any day now!”
A man to be admired, yes.
Obama/Clinton policies have knocked out 80,000 coal mining jobs in the past few years, not to mention all the associated jobs lost in those communities. Shrillary’s idea of a “plan” for coal miners is to tell them to go work min. Wage in McDonalds.... except that even those jobs have disappeared in those communities.
Being from Huntington i just want thegood folks of West Virginia to vote for what is good for them,
Not an Obamma supporter
Manchin is just that.
Secretly often so as to not lose support but nevertheless.
Your Grandfather deserves credit for helping build this country. What a story.
Funny how he knew the japs would attack but FDR’s govt claimed it was a surprise attack.. It was nessasary though, to shake the US public into action.
Mom told me how amazing it was that Grandpa with not even a grade school education figured out what was going on in the Far East. He did read a newspaper every day and listened to the radio, when radio was in its golden age.
Didn’t like FDR, either (everyone forgets that in the wake of the Bonus March, FDR vetoed legislation to pay out the WWI bonus in 1935 rather than 1945, & was overridden). Said “that crippled SOB is going to get us into another war, just you watch”.
As for Pearl Harbor, read “And I Was There” by Adm. Edwin T. Layton, 1985. Makes clear there was no actual conspiracy to deny commanders at Pearl the intel needed to prepare for an attack, just a monumental series of bureaucratic screwups & turf wars. Plus the Japs’ failure to deliver their ultimatum on time to the State Department, which would have amounted to a declaration of war. Their tardiness turned their act of war into a sneak attack, and FDR used this.
With lies like this it is inevitable that union leadership will lose the support of the rank and file membership.
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