Posted on 08/19/2012 5:54:10 PM PDT by Nachum
Hundreds of coal miners and their families stand in line while waiting to attend a rally at the Century Mine near Beallsville, Ohio, for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012.
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Si, hay muchos trabajadores del construccion.
Don’t folks voting for Obama and his suicidal plans realize these policies are going to hurt them directly, for their own needs in addition to the needs of those who rely on our taxes to cover their benefits? How can they be so blind?
WOW!!!! I didn’t even know there were that MANY miners!!! COOL!!! Thanks, guys!!
Yes there are tons of construction workers and they spend most of their days protesting outside construction sites that have hired illegals, at least here in New York city where I unfortunately live. And it’s not just construction, but road work and bridge repair, all taken over by illegals.
Some day I gotta take pictures of this stuff, it’s pathetic. Mexicans doing construction with USA citizens standing outside unemployed. And if that doesn’t boil your blood enough, right near me is the welfare office 33-00 Northern blvd. in Queens. Everyday it’s an around the block line of Mexicans getting their food stamps. So not only are they stealing jobs, they are also stealing taxes which they do not pay all courtesy of the pond scum liberals that the fools around here keep electing.
Well, I know four, and possibly six, out of my faculty department of 22, who will vote for Romney.
Well, I’m an optimist, but Zero will get NY, MA, RI, VT, DE, WA, OR, at least.
I saw the same thing here in Chicago. A couple of years back there was more road work than usual (there is always lots of road work here) and it seemed that most of the laborers were Mexican. Very few Blacks, yet these fools still vote as the Unions say even though it is killing them.
Obama is waging a one coast war on coal. While Obama wages war on the privately owned and operated coal mines in the East, he is promoting the sub-bituminous coal in the Powder River Basin in the West, which is on federally leased land, mostly owned by Indian tribes.
The rest of the Obama coal plan involves shifting the center of shipping away from the Mississippi to the West coast, where the natural resources, grain and soy beans, can be more easily shipped to Asia. Some of the crony partners in the scheme are Warren Buffet, who owns BNSF, Goldman Sachs, which owns a controlling share of CARRIX, which operates terminals, SSA, the stevedoring company that happens to employ Patty Murray’s husband, and Trumpka, as current head of the AFL and former head of the United Mine Workers.
The sub-bituminous coal is headed for China and other developing countries, where the manufacturing and jobs will take place. So, Obama is not just shipping out the natural resources that he won’t let US companies use, he is shipping out the manufacturing jobs, as well.
Sunoco and Conoco did shut down refineries in the Philadelphia area, but they are still operating, or will be when they are updated and re-built. DELTA airlines bought the CONOCO refinery and are going to refine their own fuel. The SUNOCO refinery was bought by an investment group and will be re-furbished, updated and supplied with crude from an old pipeline from the midwest, that will also be refurbished.
A group of Texas investors bought the SUNOCO marketing end of the business and were going to sell gas from that new refinery in Texas, that was recently enlarged, refurbished and modernized to refine ANY type of oil. Now the investors, which include George Bush, are have agreed to market the new SUNOCO gas, instead. It’s a great deal, not only for the Philadelphia region, but for the whole country. The oil industry is moving forward, revamping, and changing to get past the political hurdles that Obama has been putting in their way.
The oil and gas industry has the potential to pull this country out of the economic slump, if the government would just get out of the way. As for the coal, I am afraid that coal is going the way of the vinyl record. Gas is now a cheaper source of power and the environmentalists have already driven out most of the manufacturing.
Refreshingly reassuring information — thanks! Would ‘love to have links to share this information. — please!
I don’t see much good in the Obama scheme to redirect exports away from the Mississippi, to the West Coast, so that he can export our natural resources to developing countries, where the manufacturing jobs will take place, instead of here. It kills off trade along the Mississippi, and sends it the Northwest, which doesn’t really want new rail lines through their towns and along their coast, for the purpose of benefiting other states and developing countries.
Remember all the flooding on the Mississippi? Well, that wouldn’t have happened if the Obama administration hadn’t reduced dredging on the Mississippi, by two feet. Oh, there might have been minor flooding, but nothing like we saw. Do you think that is reassuring?
Do you think that it is reassuring that Patty Murray has written into the transportation bill, 467 billion for funding the Gateways, like the one that SSA, the company that employs her husband, wants to build in WA State? Isn’t that the same amount that Obama issued the executive order for?
There is nothing reassuring about Obama’s two faced coal policy. There is nothing good about it for the USA. It’s all about the Agenda 21, turning this country into an exporter of natural resources to developing countries, where the real jobs will take place.
My #51 was in response to your #50. If you have any links to provide on the refinery updates you posted, kindly post them for further distribution.
Oh, the refinery posts. Yeah, I don’t have the links anymore. It’s old news, about a month old, anyway. My sister’s husband works at the old Sunoco refinery, so I keep up with things, there.
The purchase of the Conoco refinery by Delta happened last spring. It will take some time for both refineries to be rebuilt, but it is really good for the Philadelphia area and the whole Middle Atlantic region. Some of the speculators were a little unhappy about the news, they liked the idea of FINA and LUK being the only suppliers in the region, keeping prices high.
George Bush actually went to Philadelphia to announce the purchase of the SUNOCO marketing end of the business.
You asked for links about the purchase plans for the Philadelphia refinery.
Last night on the Hannity show, the purchase of the Sunoco refinery was mentioned as an Obama crony capitalist scheme and I just got around to looking up what they were talking about. It’s worse than you could imagine. It’s just like what Obama is doing to the coal, restraining operations on privately owned land, while subsidizing and facilitating operations for crony partners. In the case of the sub-bituminous coal, the leases are on Indian land, managed by the government. In the case of the Carlyle group, the SEIU from CA and NY are heavy investors, as well as ABU Dhabi investors, the CEO is from Goldman Sachs (Goldman Sach is also involved in the coal terminal), the company was investigated for kick backs by the state of NY and paid a big fine, and is now accused of receiving kickbacks from Obama for buying this refinery.
This is not so good, after all. We don’t want government unions in a position of controlling gasoline prices.
Are there any construction workers left? Nothing has been decimated as badly as construction.
Everything has been decimated in the USA and I blame 40 years of corrupt Congresses and Presidents, of both Parties. They had one main job to do and they failed at it miserably. In summary it was to Protect and Defend the USA borders and our economy for future generations of Americans. It wasn’t that complicated and it shouldn’t have been about politics or favoring or punishing groups. Their job was never to make Wall St bankers or CEOs rich either at the expense of others, it was to defend the USA, and these fools we elected failed totally.
It is the American People that is corrupt. It elected these Congresses and Presidents. Ignorance is rampant and the choice of leaders reflects that general ignorance.
Nothing will change given that fact until the People change. Now it can be bought of by a bowl of pottage.
But it has pretty much always been that way yet, somehow we have survived. Of course, we are much more democratic now and many of the safeguards of federalism have been removed.
Given that overwhelming failure to be good citizens (know politics, take efforts to find the Truth, know our history and what our constitution says, demand moral leaders etc.) it amazes me that people believe we could have gotten a better candidate than Romney. It is a dream.
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