Death in Appalachia: Obama Crushes the Coal Industry and Leaves Millions of Workers to Lose it All!

I understand about the need to create jobs but we can't have them when the environment is being destroyed. It is horrible in coal mining country. I would rather they be on welfare right now and have free college/trade schools for their kids and/or for themselves.

I am not for agenda 21, but there is nothing wrong with trying to save our environment. Right now it is under tremendous attack from all areas.

Fuck coal and you shills who post this shit.

Unfortunately, I know you are right. It really is all about the money and not about the environment.

Check out stats on US coal exports, the trend that has developed under obama ..... The UMW has basically sold its labor force to mine coal for China. They are even building ports in the U.S. to speed up shipping US coal to China... So if Soros owns the mines and Buffet owns the railroads and China owns the coal, figure it out ... It is cheaper for China to rape our coal mines and build ports in the US ( subsidized by US tax dollars) and ship it to their ports and coastal factories than for them to develop their own inland resources and rail lines to ship their coal to their coasts

Some might even see it as a form of " eminent domain" ( Hillary's unexplained words after her first trip to China as SecState) so the Chinese make sure they get our debt to them repaid in resources if not in dollars

This is simplistic - but a trend I noted in 2011 when people wondered why the .Chesapeake Bay was seeing an unusual number of big ships just anchored out for days ... Turns out they were part of the burgeoning coal exports to China , coming from our eastern mines to our ports to load up for China

They don't care about China's environment at all. China is on the way to messing theirs up as well. But they are making money which is all that matters at the moment. But their people will suffer the effects.

Thats funny for someone to say who isn't even from the US. I live in Eastern KY and my brothers, father and family members are coal miners. This may be funny to you but this is how my family feeds their children so this is no joke to me! How heartless! And how would you know how backward people from WV are? You are not even AMERICAN! If you were to ever come to this part of the world then you would see that the people around here are some of the best people you would ever encounter! People who would do anything to help another, its sad that my people are suffering and you think its funny. People wanna talk about us and put us down but your sure liked having electricity and not having to sit in the cold/heat and dark. You can thank a miner for that!

Fuck you, elitist, Obama dick sucker. I hope a nagger shits on your car.

Last Edited by The Wizzard of Ahs! on 08/27/2015 12:07 PM

That is exactly right! This is a money generating scheme with carbon credits based upon the false religion of Climate Change/Global Cooling/ Global Warming/ Global Weirding.. or whatever they're calling it this week.

Look, i've worked and my family has worked in the Reclamation side of the Coal industry, where the State and Fed's have VERY STRINGENT guidelines on how the environment is protected and reclaimed. At any site there are either a State or Federal Mine Inspector there to ensure procedures are followed. Period.
This has nothing to do with the mining of coal.
Furthermore, strip-jobs increase the value of the land because it creates usable FLAT acreage that previously did not exist... and for anyone familar with the area knows flat land sales at a premium.

So, it's a false narrative for anyone to say that this is about the mining environment and/or it destroys the land. Patently false.

Just more Soro's shills helping to drive down the cost so their boss can scoop up some more company stock.

Hope all the environmentalists and anti-coal posters here are prepared to live off the grid. Name one green energy plan that actually works, saves money, is good for your precious environment and didn't just line a crony pocket who then just files bankruptcy and walks away with the cash?

No, we elected republicans this last time.

That wasn't the choice of the miners - who got laid off en masse due to deregulation of how they extracted the coal making it super cheap but an environmental disaster. It's the people who live there who have to deal with the polluted water and ruined landscape and now complete loss of job opportunities.

It was the owners who don't live there that made out like bandits and thanks to Obama there is nothing left for those former miners than welfare and oxycontin.

I thought you were smart enough to know the people were getting fucked and it wasn't their fault. For shit's sake it was the miners strikes that won many of the workers benefits we used to have. Appalachia has always been fucked over by the government. They don't need you as the backing chorus.

PS - Australia is preparing to DOUBLE their coal exports.

Last Edited by FlashBuzzkill on 08/27/2015 12:39 PM

Their people already are. Air polution is a major problem

You have no clue as to what you just said, do you? You just attacked an entire people and their way of life... the only one they have. Not only that, you put yourself squarely in the Obama Camp. Are you a socialist? Because you damn sure sound like one.

Think before you open your mouth, all the people from Appalachia are not backward or inbred. Maybe you are watching too much TV.

I'm sure you would rather that a LOT of people be on welfare.

But there are many honest, decent people who would rather work for their living and do not want to be on welfare, living at somebody elses' expense.

There will be a domino effect. Even jobs that aren't coal related, are in fact supported by coal jobs, especially in the coal fields of EKY, EVA and WV, will now be effected by the continued layoffs caused by the Nazi EPA.

Lot's of tax monies flood into those state coffers from coal and the related industries.

SMH

Another TARD that knows nothing about Appalachia. More than likely thinks all his meats and such comes from the Supermarket, hunting shouldn't be allowed. Get a life already.

let them make full auto COIL guns;)

I agree!


BTW LordThor, love your avatar! You from SC?

Asshole guna Asshole

:racist5:

Collapse them then buy them for a dime

Yes I am, Columbia area.

Kinda like what Russia did to y'all.

thought so with the Palm and Crescent.

We get to Myrtle about every couple of years, love your state.

But da union tolds them to support obama in 2008 and no doubt they all voted for him so they have noone to blame but themselves!!

Have you ever been to the cities? They are full of good hearted hard working people and what is the "trash" that you think you know about?

The OP started the thread I think to point out what someone with deep connections to the administration is doing. Ask yourself, if Dick Cheney suddenly did this how would you feel? Wouldn't you be calling for an investigation and an indictment and Cheny is an American citizen..

Cannot speak for all the coal producing states, but KY voted overwhelmingly for McCain in the 08 election. So, your theory doesn't hold water here..

From another Kentuckian I'm with you brother and God bless the coal miners and their families!

Are they the Paul people in your neck of the woods or the idiots who elected mitchy yet again to have him screw over all republicans.

This, in my area of WV its only crushing hard working people who are doing their best to provide decent livings for their kin. Most miner I know are all underground and they are devestated, I am no fan of mountain top removal, but underground is getting destroyed as well. Now its only gonig to ensure generations of suffering for many who can only find decent wages by going undergound.

WV will survive come hell or high water.