It was during his recent interview on National
Public Radio (NPR), before heading off on another vacation, that Barry
“Almighty” said opposition to his policies by coal miners and many people in
Appalachia is “perfectly legitimate”.
And it struck me as odd that he would say such a thing about those who
I’ve always thought were pretty reliable Democrat voters. I mean aren’t states like Pennsylvania and West
Virginia pretty Blue when it comes to where they are on the political
spectrum?
It was during this interview that Barry said, “If
you are living in a town that historically has relied on coal and you see coal
jobs diminishing, you probably are going to be more susceptible to the argument
that I’ve been wiping out the economy in your area.” And he then went on to say, “If somebody
tells you that this is because of Obama’s war on coal, well, you know, that’s
an argument you may be sympathetic to. And that’s perfectly legitimate.”
And it’s an argument that would be true. Coal mines lost a total of 7,500 jobs in the
in 2015 alone. The direct cause? That would be the federal regulations aimed
at preventing ‘global warming’ and the resulting decline in the price of coal.
A study in April found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs from 2008 to 2012 due
to regulations and cheap natural gas. The
“coal country” of Appalachia has been economically devastated and has very few
job options for the now unemployed workers.
The situation for coal miners will likely get very
much worse if Barry’s “Almighty’s” Clean Power Plan is implemented. The Energy
Information Administration predicts that the plan would more than double the
number of coal plants shutting down over the next five years. The shutdown would
have a cascading effect, causing coal production to collapse even further, by
more than 30 percent over the next decade. And yet, it’s many of these same people
who intend to vote for Hitlery.
And the reason for that likely has much to with the
fact that Barry responded to such a situation in the way leftists always do
when it’s the consequences their job-killing policies that can be pointed to as
being responsible for adverse results.
What Barry did was to offer $14.5 million in federal funding for
programs to retrain out-of-work coal miners.
Miners that were essentially put out of work after Barry decided to
impose regulations that greatly hampered the American coal industry.
Now look, I fully recognize the fact that we have as
president a ‘man’ who not only shows preference to blue states, but also goes
out of his way to punish red states and, most damaging, dismisses many other
states. Democrats have followed him in
lock step, and I find it a bit unusual that that is even the case when it comes
to many energy-producing states. Which
causes me some level of confusion, because I’m not sure how one can support a
party that’s so determined to kill my profession.
The fact is, we have in this country over 120 years-worth
of coal lying in the ground. And it’s because of non-existent ‘climate change’
that, unless a new Republican president reverses at least some the insanity that
has been put in place by Barry “Almighty’ that will likely stay there. Stop and think how many jobs would be created,
or how many are not being created, to get this coal out of the ground. And why?
The answer is politics. Politics
over putting people to work.
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