Alabama Coal Miner Delivers Emotional Testimony at EPA Hearings
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He's a union member that probably no longer supports Obama. I have the utmost respect for him for wanting to work and not get on the govt. dole. If more people had his courage to speak out and had his work ethic, we'd be in a lot better shape as a country than we are now.
If you want to see economic carnage, go to Bluefield, West Virginia, in the southern West Virginia coal fields. Shuttered business abound. Run-down houses. It is just bleak.
It won't matter. It won't matter because people elect people like Barack Obama, and people like Barack Obama enlarge and empower agencies such as the EPA in order to destroy the way of life that has been built up over centuries in this country. In the end, this is not the EPA's fault, and it's not Obama's fault. It's John Doe voter that was dumb enough to elect a liberal.
Coal power is going to disappear in this country in the not too distant future. It's going to kill a large portion of Alabama's economy and we're going to see energy prices continue to "necessarily skyrocket." I thank you, seebell.
Oh and carbon emissions worldwide will continue to go up.
Coal power is going to disappear in this country in the not too distant future. It's going to kill a large portion of Alabama's economy and we're going to see energy prices continue to "necessarily skyrocket." I thank you, seebell.
Oh and carbon emissions worldwide will continue to go up.
Uh... ain't natural gas cheaper and cleaner than coal? Has that got anything to do with the doldrums in the coal industry?
Is seebell the new Satan?
Here is the testimony of another coal miner. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/31/3465941/health-concern-epa-hearings/
A retired coal miner traveled roughly 1,300 miles from his home in Harlan County, Kentucky to Denver, Colorado where the Environmental Protection Agency was holding public hearings on its new proposed regulations to cut carbon pollution from power plants.
In the five minutes he was allotted, Stanley Sturgill spoke to the EPA about how he now suffers from black lung diseases among other respiratory illnesses and how the pollution from coal plants were adversely affecting not only his health, but the public’s too. His plea: “We’re dying, literally dying for you to help us.”
Their answer: Yes, we're the government and we're here to help. We're here to take away your job and those of your fellow miners. It is our intent for you to lose your homes and the means to feed and support your families. We want you to join the ranks of the homeless who sleep on park benches, in public parks and cardboard boxes on our city streets. We want your children to lose their means of education, and for them to have to rely on our social welfare programs for the rest of their lives. We are the government. We are here to help.
Fwiw, I have several friends who are miners. To a man, every single one of them would rather spend their lives working in the coal mines to support their families than to accept one penny in government handouts.
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I live in coal country and during the 2008 I saw a lot of Obama signs in the yards of miners. Their union support of the dems has come back to bite them on the butt.
$34 billion in new regulations to drop after mid-term elections.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/34_billion_in_new_regs_to_drop_after_the_election.html
"The next time President Obama says that we're not doing good enough on job creation, ask him to look in a mirror for the answer."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/34_billion_in_new_regs_to_drop_after_the_election.html
"The next time President Obama says that we're not doing good enough on job creation, ask him to look in a mirror for the answer."
The only way to save this country is for voters to suffer horribly for their choices. We are in for some terrible times but people have no one to blame but themselves.
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How can a Democratic Senator from West Virginia support this President? I think you know who I'm talking about.
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