Posted on 04/19/2016 5:07:17 AM PDT by Hojczyk
There was a time in America — and it wasn't even so long ago — that liberals cared a lot about working-class people. They may have been misguided in many of their policy solutions — e.g., raising the minimum wage — but at least their hearts were in the right place.
Then a strange thing happened about a decade ago. Radical environmentalists took control of the Democratic Party. These leftists care more about the supposed rise of the oceans than the financial survival of the middle class. The industrial unions made a catastrophic decision to get in bed with these radicals, and now they — and all of us — are paying a heavy price.
The latest evidence came last week when another coal giant in America, Peabody Energy Corp., filed for bankruptcy. This is the same fate suffered by Arch Coal Inc., Alpha Natural Resources Inc. and other coal producers that have filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors.
This isn't a result of free-market creative destruction. This was a policy strategy by the White House and green groups.
They wanted this to happen. This was what Clean Power Plant rules from the Environmental Protection Agency were all about. The EPA set standards that by design were impossible to meet and even flouted the law that says the regulations should be "commercially achievable." This was a key component of the climate change fanaticism that pervades this White House
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If we can only get a Republican majority in Congress, all this nonsense will stop. We will be made whole again.
Wait...what?
Have to wonder where the miner’s unions are in all of this.
Still votin’ Democrat, and sending them money, I’m sure.
The coal industry miners lit the fuse that has finally come to kill it.
Everyone forgets that the original labor unions (socialists) came from the coal industry. From there, it spread until it reached its heyday around early this century. The majority ONLY voted Democrat no matter who was running and now they find that their liberal voting has brought the demise of the coal industry through liberal environmental regulations. They simply put themselves out of work...and now complain about it.
So you go to wind and solar along with huge subsidies. I call it the slice and bake solution. (How many birds were killed last year?)
Not a solution at all.
Get rid of the EPA first.
It ain’t going anywhere and will be back when we need it,likely at a higher cost as Soros and his coal buyers will demand more profit.
Thank you. Exactly what I came here to post.
“f we can only get a Republican majority in Congress, all this nonsense will stop. We will be made whole again”
Isn’t that something? Both parties are 2 sides of the same disgusting coin.
Don’t forget Barky’s campaign promise that if elected, he’d bankrupt power companies that use coal, and that electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket.
Barky was being honest back then.
Mark
Remember that in 2012 the Obama campaign made the deliberate strategic decision to write-off white working class voters.
Short answer: they don’t NEED the UMW any longer.
These radicals are so extreme that they even turned West VA into a solid republican state.
That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
Everyone in San Francisco knows that electricity comes out of that little dohickey on the wall that you put the plug with two prongs into and water from the faucet in you bathroom or kitchen sink.
It's rumored that water also comes from out of a garden hose but very people in San Francisco have ever seen a garden hose.
Complaining about the destruction of the coal industry accomplishes nothing. What is needed is for conservatives to work with business to completely reorder a revitalized industry.
Not only a major advance in mining technology, but an “uplifted class” of coal miners and their families. That is, more robotics and more pleasant jobs for the miners, with higher pay; and top notch private schools for their children, with pleasant places to live. On the production side.
And far better use of coal to generate energy on the other side. Such production will have to be at a much larger scale to afford such improved technology, and will likely be consolidated with other industries that consume its waste products.
We have to start over from scratch - NO MORE GOPe types... We not only have to NOT ELECT GOPe types, we have to dump the ones we've already elected.
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