Yep, the UMWA folks are pretty scary when ticked off. Even the State Police are afraid of them during strikes.
Posted on 11/21/2008 10:10:00 PM PST by Ronzo
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. -- Amid waves of bleak economic news, Fred McCardle seems to be a rarity. He is working 60 hours a week, at almost double the pay of his old job, and just bought a $500 flat screen TV.
"It's nice to have a little extra money," says the 42-year-old, who quit his job at a concrete company and was hired as a coal miner soon after by Consol Energy Inc. The company is spending $3 million on billboards to attract workers across a swath of Eastern states -- West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky -- and hired 15 new miners this week at the McElroy mine, where Mr. McCardle is working.
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The future of the coal industry is a bit shaky considering the President-elect is NOT coal friendly.
Give Gore and Obama a little more time before they destroy the coal industry.
Don’t bother Obamessiah said he is going to bankrupt the coal industry so what is the point of working in an industry Obamessiah has marked for failure?
Yep. Better get in there and dig like crazy for a couple of months. Get all you can before the 0bamanites close down the mines forever.
No shortage of jobs here either.
Why are the liberals against coal?
In fact, with our energy problems, the liberals are against so many things that can help.
They are against more coal development.
They are against nuclear power.
They are against hydroelectric power
They are against more domestic oil drilling
They are against development of oil shale
They are against building new oil refineries
They are even against wind power if the windmills block Ted Kennedy’s view.
Since they are against so many things, what exactly do they propose? Or do they just like to have bitch sessions about energy, bitch about Bush having been in the oil business, and dream of their perfect world with no greenhouse gases, no pollution, and an endless supply of green energy to run all their electronic toys??????
The unions - miners and auto workers - are about to be thrown under the bus. In a Marxist revolution, some former supporters need to be sacrificed for common good, meaning party apparatchniks looting the country.
Better be careful, though. These union boys are tough and nobama’s thug civilian corps will not fare well in street combat against them.
Eatin’ rainbow stew with a silver soon underneath the sky of blue.
We’ll all be drinking that free bubble-up and eatin’ that rainbow stew.
While they did initially oppose the windmills off the MA shore, these were given the go ahead recently.
But, you are spot on with the rest of the post. Whenever the Republicans propose an energy plan, be it drilling, nuclear, whatever, the Dims say it will take 10 years to forever for the plan to provide relief.
The Dim plan, OTOH will take effect in much less time. It will have us shivering in the dark like noble savages in no time. (Cave men were noble, right?)
The last big bust was in the late 1980s, which threw thousands of coal miners out of work permanently and forced most of us "young-uns" to leave the region to get better educated and find decent careeres since coal was obviously dead at the time. And it stayed that way through the 1990s, with only retired coal miners, welfare cases, and drug lords remaining back home while the rest of us moved on. That's one of the reasons that the coal companies who have returned to SWVA are having a hard time finding quality labor to reopen the mines since most of us left and didn't come back.
I predict that the current boom will only last a couple of more years before the industry crashes and burns again once Obama has had a chance to act on his promise of bankrupting the coal companies through his cap and trade scheme. Right now, coal is on the upswing, beginning about two years ago when energy prices started escalating.
Yep, the UMWA folks are pretty scary when ticked off. Even the State Police are afraid of them during strikes.
I think the miners being hired are non union. They also need to be pretty well educated. The mines are now extremely mechanized and the jobs involve highly technical matters rather than strongbacks.
The Dim plan, OTOH will take effect in much less time.
Spot On....The RAT plan is to shut down life as we know it.
On the surface, the real energy plan should be build coal and nuclear plants, drill for our own oil, and mine our own coal. This will begin to benefit us in short order and will continue to benefit us as the new plants, mines, and oil fields come on-line over the next 10 to 20 years. But the first effects will be within a year or two.
The RAT plan for alternative energy to REPLACE coal and oil will not benefit us in the near term. In the long term, it will not benefit us either. Energy will be scarce and expensive. You are correct, the effects will be quick and we will be freezing in the dark and walking to work if we can and have a job to walk to.
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