Posted on 08/02/2014 5:44:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
It’s unlikely that United Mine Workers of America president Cecil Roberts thought he would be arrested protesting the energy policies of the very politician his union supported in 2008. But things have come full circle for coal miners, who now see President Obama’s climate agenda threatening their livelihoods.
Roberts and other UMWA members were arrested Thursday marching through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, towards the federal building the Environmental Protection Agency was holding field hearings for a new rule that could very well force more coal mines and plants to shut down. …
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Took ‘em long enough. It was made very plain before the 2008 election what the resident of the white hut planned to do to the coal industry. It’s their faults for not believing what he said.
Last I checked Obama ain’t running. They will be back to the Democrats in no time.
The coal miners are revolting, just as their 2008 votes were.
When Stalin rose to power and he knew he was solidly in control, he had one million of his supporters executed so that he did not have to pay them back. If Obama could get away with it, he’d have many of his supporters and opponents executed. He would not hesitate.
I can only conclude that coal miners must be gay.
Morons. He said his goal was to make coal too expensive.
Did they not LISTEN to the man?
Hard to feel sorry for them. They played the sound bites where he said he would shut them down and bankrupt them. And yet they voted for him anyways.
Heh. On what promise? The Dems are going to jail them all now, or worse.
They've been so comfortable so long they honestly believed, "it can't happen here" right up until 25 miles of Steel Mills in the Mon Valley are nothing but empty fields and Detroit is now "Abandoned City" instead of "Motor City".
The American Dream has gone from making a decent living by having your own Mom & Pop business to Mom & Pop hoping they can both keep their part time jobs at Walmart and McDonalds. Mom & Pop no longer fantasize about setting enough aside for a little vacation, they fantasize about both getting having the same hours so they get a little time together at home.
Well, it’s not like they weren’t WARNED that voting for Obama meant economic suicide for them.
Did they think he was just kidding??
They even went on a one-day, union-called, wildcat strike in support of Obama, blocking roads and mines, if you recall.
They deserve all of the misery they are getting. Karma may be a cruel B**ch, but she is always just.
Maybe so.
But our laughing at their pain is not helping.
They're now a potential ally. They vote. And if they finally woke up to what the democrats REALLY are, we should be finding ways to bring them into the fold.
Think "The enemy of my enemy is my friend..."
The dynamic has changed. This is a war for the survival of the Country. All hands on deck, and Welcome to the War, coal miners. Every group, person, demographic, that this POS alienates is one more potential ally to turn against him.
Capisce?
How (sadly) true. Thank you for summing it up, even if it is painful.
The membership may be potentially an ally, but not the leadership. They still have their own agenda.
I agree, the damage is done. Too late to be sorry now. They asked for ii and they got it.
Amen!
that will never happen. What will happen is that the Democrats will tell the parents that it is the fault of the Republicans that their children are getting sick. This is what the parents will believe.
Well, that’s fine. There’s MORE of the “membership” than the leadership anyway.
You concentrate on where you can make a breakthrough, and then exploit it.
This is a numbers game. It was never supposed to be, but it is now.
Once the illegals come and take whatever jobs are left, the benefits, and takeover their streets, inner-city blacks will be complaining that Obama "ain't taking care of them."
This is what happens when a political party is held together by competing leftist factions instead of treating people as individuals.
The only thing worse than bad government is the people that vote for bad government.
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