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tRUMP Promises To BRING BACK BLACK LUNG & the COAL MINING INDUSTRY

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In coal country, putting faith in Trump's economic promises | PBS NewsHour

Now a special series this week on the hopes and economic realities of many of those Americans who voted for President Trump.

Three reports will take us to Erie County, Pennsylvania, Central Valley, California, and the coal towns of West Virginia. The president made economic promises in each of these places that helped him win.

**************This is the mentality of folks that vote for tRump******************
 
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Anything about the protective clothing and devices they have now that can be worn? You know for safety.
 
Honest working people providing a living for their family.
We need more people like them.
 
coldjoint said:
Anything about the protective clothing and devices they have now that can be worn? You know for safety.
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You mean the stuff mandated by all those job-killing regulations?
 
Carjosse said:
Well they won't be found in coal.
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With trump rolling back obamas war on coal the mines could reopen.
There is still a demand for it.
 
ludin said:
Honest working people providing a living for their family.
We need more people like them.
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Notice the disdain leftists have for those who work hard and sacrifice for their families? These dirty deplorables.
 
ludin said:
With trump rolling back obamas war on coal the mines could reopen.
There is still a demand for it.
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Coal is a dying industry, it needs to be ended, people need to be trained to do other jobs. Not only that but the coal industry is dangerous to the environment and the people working in it. These honest workers are being poisoned by the very companies they work for.
 
ludin said:
With trump rolling back obamas war on coal the mines could reopen.
There is still a demand for it.
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yes, we certainly need more mercury in the water systems, the lakes, the streams, the oceans, from burning coal

we certainly need more citizens with black lung ........... "we are gonna create so many good paying jobs for Americans" .............
 
cuban smokes said:
In coal country, putting faith in Trump's economic promises | PBS NewsHour

Now a special series this week on the hopes and economic realities of many of those Americans who voted for President Trump.

Three reports will take us to Erie County, Pennsylvania, Central Valley, California, and the coal towns of West Virginia. The president made economic promises in each of these places that helped him win.

DAKOTA HALL, Coal Miner: I really want to be a coal miner, always have been, ever since I was in high school. Everybody had their dreams about being a basketball player, football player. I always just wanted to be a coal miner. The only thing that I really have given thought about is Trump getting in office and going back to work.

DAVE BOUNDS: Coal mining is a rough job. I was very seldom off. I worked six days a week, and sometimes seven. I worked 16 hours a day, instead of eight. When I first went in the mines in 1969, the risk factor of black lung disease wasn’t mentioned a whole lot.
I was one of them young coal miners. I would never get it. No, not me. I mean, it happens to a lot of these older miners, but not me. That’s what I thought.
The doctor told me, he said, you have contracted. Now you need to do something about it.
But buying a home, buying two automobiles, I had my daughter in school. You couldn’t go out and just quit work and go hunt a job somewhere in another field that you wasn’t even trained for. So, you just had to keep working. You had to keep going, until, one day, you realize, hey, I done went too far.
I thought I was 10-foot-tall and bulletproof. It didn’t take long for me to realize I wasn’t. Now I find myself as a 69-year-old, broken-down coal miner.
I think it’s going to be the one to take me out in the end. They can say, well, this man died of black lung.
And if I could give any advice to any young miner right now, I would say run. Find you another occupation. When you see a coal mine, turn around and go the other way. You just got to leave.


**************This is the mentality of folks that vote for tRump******************
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Was it necessary to title the thread "tRUMP..."? It kind of makes the prospects for a civil and honest debate seem unlikely.
 
Carjosse said:
Coal is a dying industry, it needs to be ended, people need to be trained to do other jobs. Not only that but the coal industry is dangerous to the environment and the people working in it. These honest workers are being poisoned by the very companies they work for.
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trump is gonna make America great again; he would not poison folks like Dakota Hall, just to get votes .............
 
Carjosse said:
Coal is a dying industry, it needs to be ended, people need to be trained to do other jobs. Not only that but the coal industry is dangerous to the environment and the people working in it. These honest workers are being poisoned by the very companies they work for.
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There are a lot of jobs like that but they are required.
You have never been incoal country.

I grew up near places like it. There is the mine. It generated revenue for everyone and allowed the
Rest of the town to live. As the mine does so does the rest of the town.

A lot of them are moving off to other areas looking for work.

There are no other jobs to train them in.
 
ludin said:
There are a lot of jobs like that but they are required.
You have never been incoal country.

I grew up near places like it. There is the mine. It generated revenue for everyone and allowed the
Rest of the town to live. As the mine does so does the rest of the town.

A lot of them are moving off to other areas looking for work.

There are no other jobs to train them in.
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acquiring a good education could be an option?
 
cuban smokes said:
yes, we certainly need more mercury in the water systems, the lakes, the streams, the oceans, from burning coal

we certainly need more citizens with black lung ........... "we are gonna create so many good paying jobs for Americans" .............
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Most miners make pretty good money.
 
cuban smokes said:
trump is gonna make America great again; he would not poison folks like Dakota Hall, just to get votes .............
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That is exactly what the coal industry does and has been doing for decades.
 
ludin said:
There are a lot of jobs like that but they are required.
You have never been incoal country.

I grew up near places like it. There is the mine. It generated revenue for everyone and allowed the
Rest of the town to live. As the mine does so does the rest of the town.

A lot of them are moving off to other areas looking for work.

There are no other jobs to train them in.
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Train them in other trades, send them to college, anything. Coal is dying, and those towns are dying, and there is no use pretending that there anything that can be done other than try to help those affected to leave.
 
cuban smokes said:
acquiring a good education could be an option?
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Lol the ones that get out get out.
Telling. A 40 or 50 year old guy to go get a degree is a little late.

No time. It has nothing to do with education. They have education.
They even have acces to good colleges. It is a decision hey make of what they want to do.
 
Carjosse said:
Train them in other trades, send them to college, anything. Coal is dying, and those towns are dying, and there is no use pretending that there anything that can be done other than try to help those affected to leave.
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Would this same philosophy apply to a city like Detroit?
 
Carjosse said:
Train them in other trades, send them to college, anything. Coal is dying, and those towns are dying, and there is no use pretending that there anything that can be done other than try to help those affected to leave.
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Some can't afford to leave.
Actually coal is booming right now.

Coal price is high.
 
Jack Fabulous said:
Would this same philosophy apply to a city like Detroit?
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A city like Detroit can at least make attempts at revitalization (and I hear they had some success), a small town in the middle of Appalachia, no way. Also people did leave Detroit.
 
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