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Balbus · Apr 28, 2017

In context -

So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country.

Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?

And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.

Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.

So whether it's coal country or Indian country or poor urban areas, there is a lot of poverty in America. We have gone backwards. We were moving in the right direction. In the '90s, more people were lifted out of poverty than any time in recent history.

Because of the terrible economic policies of the Bush administration, President Obama was left with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and people fell back into poverty because they lost jobs, they lost homes, they lost opportunities, and hope.

So I am passionate about this, which is why I have put forward specific plans about how we incentivize more jobs, more investment in poor communities, and put people to work.

Meliai · Apr 28, 2017

"We're going to put a lot of horse and buggy drivers out of business" - Henry Ford

Well, something like that.

Life moves on. There will always be someone left behind in the march of human progress

Moonglow181 · Apr 28, 2017

Oh, please. I listened to some of the coal miners speaking in interviews before the outcome of the 2016 election, and the bottom line for them was to over turn abortion is why they were voting for trump.
So now we have a govt that has gone from bad to worse......people cutting off their noses to spite their faces in voting against Hillary......but it is too bad they had to take the non Trump supporters, environement and animals that have nothing to do with anything with them with their agendas for a better world. right.

i am so glad you deem to know everyone's reasons for everything.

Hope you liked shooting yourself in the foot!

MeAgain · Apr 28, 2017

puff n stuff said:

Obama caused the loss of mining jobs in the tune of 83 000 coal miners jobs in September 2016 and shut down 400 mines because of policies he put in place. Obama promised to bankrupt the mining industry and did a damn good job, and you wonder why coal miners hated Obama? It was not because he was black.
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But for all the rage over Obama's environmental agenda, mining jobs began disappearing in the region long before he entered the White House, for reasons that have nothing to do with regulations now coming out of Washington.
In fact, coal mining jobs in Appalachia fared far worse under the Reagan, Clinton, and George H.W. Bush administrations than they have under Obama.
According to employment counts from the Mine Safety and Health Administration, from 1983 — the earliest year for which MSHA had data — to 1989, combined coal jobs in West Virginia and Kentucky fell from 79,000 to 64,000.
In the following four years under the first President Bush, coal jobs in the two states fell to 56,000. And by the final year of the Clinton administration, the states' combined total of mining jobs had fallen to a nadir of 33,000.
By comparison, West Virginia and Kentucky coal-mining payrolls have been relatively stable during Obama's first four years in office: In 2009, there were just under 43,000 coal miners in the two states combined. In 2012, the latest year for which MSHA has final data, the count totaled just over 41,000.
[SIZE=12pt]So what's driving the decline? First and foremost: changes in the industry. [/SIZE]~ Coal Country's Decline.
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Here's a complete history of coal from 1920 to 2012, if anyone cares:

In February 1980, Wilkinson frames the situation. “Coal enters 1980 burdened with over capacity, a soft spot market, and unemployment and mine closings in the eastern half of the country,” Wilkinson wrote. “Yet 1980 and the new decade promise increased consumption of coal, relaxations of stifling environmental regulations, greater political power working in support of coal from the White House. Despite an ill-defined national energy policy, circumstances—the steady increase in the cost of oil and the incident at Three Mile Island nuclear generating plant for instance—steadily draw the U.S. toward exploitation of its abundant power source—coal.”

By the mid-1980s, however, the news reads remarkably like the coal news of the 1920s, the 1930s and the 1950s. Over-capacity brings about cut-throat pricing, layoffs and mine closings. Coal markets are being squeezed by the arrival of more nuclear generating capacity. Coal loses market share to nuclear with 9.9 gigawatts coming online in 1987. The 31 new nuclear plants under construction in the U.S. will supply future demands and displace 7.5 million tons per year (tpy) of current coal capacity. Coal employment is down 7.4%. Production is steady and stocks are down 10%. The spot market rekindles competition.

Coal successfully weathered the tough period. The price collapse in oil, a soft economy, and the growth in nuclear power took their toll. The National Coal Association (NCA) predicts record production in 1987 of 914 million tons, up 30 million tons from 1986. The run-up, however, is not due to demand. Utilities were preparing for potential strikes related to collective bargaining with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). To the surprise of many, the UMWA works out an agreement with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association before the contract expires.

The decade ends with coal in over capacity. U.S. utilities, which are now planning fewer electric power plants than they have in decades, continue to delay plans for new plants of any kind until they better understand future power demands, the direction of acid rain legislation, and emerging generation technologies.

Building on the momentum of a fourth consecutive year of record coal production, the U.S. coal industry mined 1.029 billion tons in 1990, a 56 million ton increase over 1989. Most of the increase in coal production occurred east of the Mississippi, where coal production reached a record level of 635 million tons, 36 million tons more than the previous year. The West set a record as well with 401 million tons, a 20 million ton increase.

In 1990, the terms global warming and carbon tax also emerge. Coal leaders applaud President Clinton’s climate action plan at the end of 1993. The Clinton administration’s Climate Change Action Plan relies primarily on voluntary steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of calling for regulatory or legislative actions, the Clinton global warming plan establishes 50 programs including supply options and demand reduction efforts by which businesses can cooperate on emission reductions.

During the 1994 mid-term elections, Republicans take control of both houses in Congress. Clinton’s proposed initiatives become irrelevant with the congressional agenda being set by the Republican leadership. Three federal agencies, the U.S. Bureau of Mines (BoM), the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Biological Survey, are targeted for elimination by the Republican “Contract with America.”
In mid-June, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee gave voice approval to a draft of the 1996 Interior Department budget appropriations bill, in which the BoM is eliminated. The subcommittee cut the current spending by $1.4 billion brining the appropriations down to $11.9 billion. The subcommittee earmarked $67 million in closing costs for BoM functions. The legislation abolishes a relatively small federal agency that played a huge role in protecting and improving the lives of the nation’s miners. Certain health and safety functions of the BoM were transferred to the DoE Fossil Fuels Division, including the Pittsburgh Research Center. Roughly 1,200 mining-related scientists were released just before 1995 holiday season.

Indonesia emerges as a force in the world coal market. In 1994, Indonesia’s total output exceeded 33 million tons, a 15-fold increase in 10 years. Over the next six years, the Indonesian Government projects production to increase by almost 9 million tpy by 2000; they are expecting to produce 88 million tons.

By 1995, Colombia has now grown to become the world’s fourth largest exporter after Australia, the U.S. and South Africa. Coal is the country’s third largest export behind coffee and petroleum. Current production is 22 million mt, of which, 16 million mt is exported. Vast reserves of high-quality coal are located in relatively close proximity to the Caribbean Coast.

Production from El Cerrejón’s North Mining complex rivals large North American surface coal operations. The mine has reserves of 1.6 billion mt and is a 50:50 joint venture of Carbocol, the Colombian state company formed in 1976, and Intercor, a subsidiary of Exxon Corp.
Cerrejón shipped 14 million mt in 1993. Other important producers for the export market include Produce and Carbones del Caribe. All three have expansion plans that will raise total capacity to 33 million mtpy by 2000.

In 2000, demand for coal slows and the railroads and river docks get a chance to catch up. The tech bubble has burst and the U.S. economy is slowing. Both the summer of 1999 and 1999-2000 winter were mild. Coal prices are at a modern-day, all-time low.

In September 2001, explosions rip through Jim Walter Resources’ Blue Creek No. 5 mine. The mine, probably the deepest and gassiest in the nation, suffers two explosions on September 23, and a subsequent fire, killing 13 miners. The disaster is the worst to occur since the Willberg mine fire. The event is over-shadowed by the September 11 terrorist attacks and doesn’t receive much media attention.
In July 2002, nine miners are rescued from an inundated Quecreek mine in Pennsylvania.

On January 2, 2006, an explosion at ICG’s Sago mine in West Virginia kills 12 miners. Shortly after that tragic event, two more incidents in West Virginia take the lives of four more miners. West Virginia begins to pass mine safety laws in a knee-jerk reaction.
Another explosion occurs at the Darby No. 1 mine killing five more miners on May 20. Two more fatalities brought the year-to-date total to 33 by the end of May.

During early April 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court makes two decisions that have negative long-term implications for the coal business. It ruled that CO2 was in fact a pollutant and that the EPA should look at the total output of pollutants when determining compliance. As the global warming debate heats up, the Supreme Court is essentially saying that it understands the emissions debate and that the U.S. response to climate changes was already covered 50 years ago when Congress enacted the Clean Air Act (CAA).

In December 2009, the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) pens an opinion piece, Coal Must Embrace the Future. In it, he berates the coal industry for fear mongering and grandstanding. Coal’s elder statesman, who was presented with the Coal Age Award 20 years early, lectures the coal industry and warns the miners not resist the changes that are inevitable as society moves to biomass and natural gas.
On June 15, 2006, President Bush signed the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act into law.
On Thursday, August 16, 2007, a significant bounce killed three rescue workers, including one MSHA inspector, trying to locate six miners at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah.

President Obama appoints Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary for Mine Safety and Health. Main worked as an advocate for miner safety under the UMWA for 22 years.

On April 9, 2010, Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine suffers an explosion, which kills 29 miners. It would become the worst mining disaster since the 1970 Finley Coal Explosion that killed 38 miners in Kentucky. More than 2,000 people, including President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, gathered in Beckley, W.Va., to mourn the tragedy. ~ Coal Age
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6-eyed shaman · Apr 29, 2017

MeAgain said:

And as I said the white blue collar workers abandoned the Democratic party, not the other way around.
Hillary Clinton proposed a $30 billion dollar plan to re-educate those who were loosing jobs, for small business development, and infrastructure improvement, especially in Appalachia.
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Then why do they keep pedaling identity politics to vilify underpriviliged and undereducated white people all the time?

MeAgain · Apr 29, 2017

6-eyed shaman said:

Then why do they keep pedaling identity politics to vilify underpriviliged and undereducated white people all the time?
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I don't know what you mean.

Please give examples.

newo · Apr 29, 2017

Since we've gotten focused on the coal industry:

MeAgain · Apr 30, 2017

puff n stuff said:

Obama admits to intentionally bankrupting the coal mining industry, taxing them to death while generating billion for his government,

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw

So go ahead and attempt to put the blame Elsewhere. This explains Obama in December 2016 putting in regulations that will cost the coal mining industry and estimated 81 billion dollars. 15 - 35 percent of their profits.
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So...did you listen to what he said?

Increasing the limits to pollution by coal fired plants may lead them to price themselves out of the market if they can't clean up their act...but, but if there is a way to use coal in a clean way we should pursue it. Same with nuclear.

By setting rigorous standards in regards to how much pollution we allow WE CAN LET THE MARKET DETERMINE WHAT TYPES OF ENERGY WE PURSUE! (Paraphrase)

6-eyed shaman · Apr 30, 2017

MeAgain said:

I don't know what you mean.

Please give examples.
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Ask and ye shall receive:

When whites just don't get it: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/opinion/sunday/when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-6.html

Then there's this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHfH0WABTY

Has Sanders walked a mile in EVERY white person's shoes? Has he experienced the world through every white person's point of view and life experiences by facing discrimination, blind hatred, and I dare say racism from other groups and ethnicities? Of course he hasn't. But this narrative is very common amongst liberal politicians who think they know everything.

MeAgain · May 1, 2017

6-eyed shaman said:

Ask and ye shall receive:

When whites just don't get it: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/opinion/sunday/when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-6.html

Then there's this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHfH0WABTY

Has Sanders walked a mile in EVERY white person's shoes? Has he experienced the world through every white person's point of view and life experiences by facing discrimination, blind hatred, and I dare say racism from other groups and ethnicities? Of course he hasn't. But this narrative is very common amongst liberal politicians who think they know everything.
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You stated:

Then why do they keep pedaling identity politics to vilify underpriviliged and undereducated white people all the time?
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The article you cited was about racial bias.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, an eminent sociologist, calls this unconscious bias “racism without racists,” and we whites should be less defensive about it. This bias affects blacks as well as whites, and we also have unconscious biases about gender, disability, body size and age. ~ Your source
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So what does this have to do with vilifying whites?

What bothers you about the Sanders clip? That he has empathy?
He stated an obvious fact, if you are not a member of a group that is discriminated against, you may have no idea what discrimination is like.

I'll give you an example. Way back in 1970/71, I had extremely long hair for the era, down to the middle of my back. I returned to my hometown and walked into a G.C. Murphy's 5 and 10 Cent Department Store. The entire store came to a halt, customers and clerks (there were no associates in those days). Little groups of whispers formed and I was followed around the store until I left. I realized then what it must be like to be black, and I realized I could cut my hair, but a black person can't change the color of their skin.

I was discriminated against in a bunch of settings, college classes, jobs, public recreational venues, etc. As I white person I developed empathy for those who are discriminated against by others.

So, I'll ask again, what's wrong with Bernie's statement?

MeAgain · May 1, 2017

puff n stuff said:

Don't know how you can attribute it to bush and blame the right when the left said, Obama said he would put coal mines out of business and that is exactly what he did while offering nothing to those who lost their jobs. So now you agree it was obama who did it? Talked of how much money he would take. You do not see the hypocrisy I supoose? Take that money from one business and invest it in a business I have stocks in. Greed. Yet you trust the left who has lied to you continually throughout Obamas reign, throughout Hilary's campaign and the entire time her husband was in office. Hilary, whose party had worked hard to bankrupt the coal mining industry. The lefts bubble burst and things were exposed, their corruption was exposed, yet you still hold on and call people stupid for not believing their lies any longer.

Obama completely disregarded the unemployment rate, fudged numbers in America and pretended the economy was good, that people were employed. Portrayed himself as the great black hope. He was no where's near it. He did a great job at creating discourse and has funded riots.
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You make a lot of charges without citing any evidence to back any of it up.

I'll give you one example:
In 2015 Obama authorized $55 million for the retraining of coal miners.

The plan, called POWER Plus and is part of the President’s proposed Fiscal Year 2016 Budget, provides more than $55 million in funding for job training, job creation, economic diversification, and other economic efforts in communities that have experienced layoffs due to the declining coal industry. According to the White House, that funding is “unprecedented” and will go toward improving the economic security of coal miners and their families, who have “helped keep the lights on in this nation for generations.”
Those investments include $20 million in funding for coal miners or coal plant workers who have lost their jobs in recent years. The money will go toward job transitioning services and programs for those who have lost their jobs in the coal industry. Another $25 million will go toward the Appalachian Regional Commission, which works to improve economic opportunities in Appalachia.
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So you need to get your facts in order.
I'll be off line for a few days, so I'll check back later.

BlackBillBlake · May 14, 2017

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MeAgain · May 29, 2017

Still shot from the latest Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd concert.

newo · May 29, 2017

6-eyed shaman · May 29, 2017

You know you're unoriginal and unimaginative if you're stealing source material in a low brow humor magazine for kids.

MeAgain · Jun 1, 2017

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