BarryP wrote:
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What I'm taking from this thread is that coal is a viable source of jobs for the time being, but some people wish it wasn't. And again, their underlying contempt for the people who need those jobs comes through. "Those jobs might exist now, but pretty soon they won't, so you might as well just surrender now. No, we don't have an alternative for you, but so what. Just give in to the inevitable."I don't think anyone has contempt for them. It is odd, though, that the liberals are on the "tough love" side of this economic argument. I've never thought that we should keep industries just to employ people, especially when those industries are bad for the environment. Truth be told, I don't think Republicans are in favor of that, either. They just say that they are when the need to win an election. If they could ship Joe the Coal Miner's job off to China to save a buck, they'd do it in a heart beat.
I do find rural America to be an interesting place, economically, demographically, etc.
Just for the record whoever said something about people looking down on people like coal miners was talking about people like you. No one is keeping the coal industry just to keep jobs you flaming bonehead. They are fighting for it because it actually works as the success of our country shows. There is no replacement even close to being online aside from other fossils fuels so step back and be thankful that you still have coal to lean on.
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