Posted on 11/09/2012 4:13:08 PM PST by tobyhill
A coal company headed by a prominent Mitt Romney donor has laid off more than 160 workers in response to President Obama's election victory.
Murray Energy said Friday that it had been "forced" to make the layoffs in response to the bleak prospects for the coal industry during Obama's second term. In a prayer circulated by the company, CEO Robert Murray said Americans had voted "in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom."
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Here it comes, just like this economist warned.
Coal Companies aren’t the only ones laying off.
The Stock Market is tanking.
Americans who voted for Obama don’t give a damn, half of them had no intention of working anyway, as long as the unemployment and welfare checks roll in, and they got free phones.
Plenty of shale oil jobs available. I suggest the coal workers get off their asses and head for fracking territory.
HOORAY Murray Energy! Prepare. Persevere.
>>I suggest the coal workers get off their asses and head for fracking territory.
Are you joking?? Get off their asses? They were coal miners until their asshole boss decided to throw a temper tantrum and move them from employed to unemployed.
I figured Ohioans would hear about it and vote to keep their electricity prices from "skyrocketing" (Obama 2008). Natural gas users should not get complacent because Obama wants to tax and curtail that too. Anyway when I looked up the war on coal and mostly the media ignored it except to say 1) there's no war on coal and 2) coal is bad and dirty and needs to be phased out.
When they came to my daughter, she said she was a "Republican."
This caused her "friends" to start sort of mildly ragging on her. Nothing serious. One of them said to her "so you're for fracking." I asked her "what's fracking" and she shrugged and said "I don't know."
The comments on this article are unbelievable
Hopefully, the miners that voted for Obama can find a job at Mikey D’s. sarc.
F the coal miners. They reap what they sow with their voting for Obama.
They probably have a plan for all the companies making layoffs, perhaps a 5-Year Plan. Centralisation, curtailment of freedom (those which remain). Sound familiar?
Except that the Obama administration now has fracking squarely within their sights...and, even as we speak, are preparing regulations that will make it economically impossible.
Those jobs aren't ever going to happen. Not after the election last Tuesday.
Yep, reading them I feel like I'm in the middle of an Ayn Rand novel.
How long until the Directive outlawing layoffs?
LOL. Best comment was from a Chris Clark who was already in the “It’s not Obama’s fault mode”. The CNN article is now actually blaming Nixon.
LOL. Best comment was from a Chris Clark who was already in the “It’s not Obama’s fault mode”. The CNN article is now actually blaming Nixon.
The scary part is that you can see where the people commenting on that article would probably agree with a Directive 10-289!
It’s not a temper tantrum; it’s a shrug.
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