To the Coal Miners going on Faux News Today

[brettdale]

Im talking about the ones that are blaming President Obama for a miserable eight years of their lives Under his
presidency, and who are now calling President Trump a great American for bringing back coal, which does do
damage at all, its just a liberal lie.

I hope they can promise me one thing, when they get fuckin lung cancer, when their kids get lung cancer, when
their grandkids get lung cancer for breathing in filthy air, please dont go back on Faux News and blame,
Obama care.

Would they just promise me that?

[canuckledragger]

1. Of course not.

Those conservatives will ALWAYS blame someone else for their own self-created problems.

It's why they're in the spot they're in now, and will always stay there.

[pazzyanne]

2. Apparently they haven't develped black lung disease from working in the mines yet!

I pity the people so stuck in their past that they cannot look toward a brighter future. These are the same people that refused to use the paid for reeducation program offered to them to prepare for jobs of the future. So sad.

[PatSeg]

8. In hospitals

"Black lung" is still among the health questions that are asked patients. Coal is bad for everyone, but especially miners.

[IronLionZion]

9. black lung disease is caused by black presidents

and has nothing to do with breathing in coal dust. Obamacare makes people sick and poor, don't you know?

[pazzyanne]

14. Sorry, that alternative fact is not part of my personal data base.

Unfortunately, it is part of millions of people's core belief. My 93 year old Mom once said when talking about my evangelical humper sister that she "didn't have the sense that God gave her when she was born." It always amazed me that Mom was a Democrat as she was raised by parents who were staunch Republicans.

[IronLionZion]

23. Some people rebel against their parents and try to be different

when it happens over multiple generations we can see grandkids being more like their grandparents than their parents.

[pazzyanne]

24. That is so true.

[The Wizard]

3. The free market as in

new mining techniques and automation combined with decreased demand eliminated coal jobs. Blaming Obama is bigoted bullshit peddled by Pox News and hate radio. The unwitting dupes who support Trump and the Repubics didn't want to hear it when Hillary offered them training and education to transition into other fields of employment. It's easier to con people than it is to convince them they've been conned.

[FSogol]

11. The low cost of Natural Gas did more to kill off the coal industry than anything mentioned.

Your 2nd thru 4th sentences are spot on.

[Hortensis]

4. Trump's Plan for Coal Emissions: Let Coal States Regulate Them

T

he Trump administration next week plans to formally propose a vast overhaul of climate change regulations that would allow individual states to decide how, or even whether, to curb carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants, according to a summary of the plan and details provided by three people who have seen the full proposal.

The plan would also relax pollution rules for power plants that need upgrades. That, combined with allowing states to set their own rules, creates a serious risk that emissions, which had been falling, could start to rise again, according to environmentalists. ...

The move follows a separate decision this month to freeze Obama-era fuel efficiency standards that were also aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “These are the two biggest sectors of the economy that contribute to greenhouse gases in the country and are just hugely significant in terms of emissions,” said Janet McCabe, the Environmental Protection Agency air chief under Mr. Obama. Together the transportation sector and the power sector account for more than half of the country’s emissions, according to the agency.

“The science is just getting clearer and clearer every day,” Ms. McCabe said. “I don’t know how many times people need to hear that we’re having the warmest summer on record or how many storms people need to see. This is no fooling.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/climate/trump-clean-power-rollback.html

The miners aren't the only ones who need to worry about lung problems. Regulations in place have cleaned up a great deal of air pollution, but ozone levels are rising with climate change. Increasing pollutants plus ozone, which is very damaging to the lungs, will/would create health problems far beyond what we used to experience when air pollution was worse.

Incidence of childhood asthma has been climbing anyway and death rates, though still rare, have also been climbing in the past few decades. If these people won't worry about their own lungs, they should be worrying about their children's.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Make coal magnate Robert Murray their poster boy

You know, the Trump booster Bob Murray from WV, complete with the oxygen tubes running up his nose.

[blueinredohio]

6. I don't know if they'll get lung cancer

but if they actually work in the mines they'll probably get black lung. My father, one of my grandfathers and one of my uncle's all died from black lung and they all worked in the coal mines.

[oasis]

7. They vote for a snake, then hope he won't bite them.

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Idiots.

[marble falls]

10. My grandfather died of black lung and its nothing I'd wish or imagine on anyone...

Thank-God for the UMW and Jock Yablonski.

Don't blame the miners, blame their bosses, the union breaking Congresses and a public that turned their backs on unionism with the rise of Reagan.

[PaulX2]

12. Burning Coal Is Idiotic They Might As Well Be Torching The Forests

Themselves. Same thing. Coal is like cancer to our planet.

[dembotoz]

13. Did they ride in on coal burning Harley motor cycle

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. HA!

[farmbo]

15. Gee... I wonder if the Faux News Blonde will ask about this?

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/04/616136915/coal-miners-fund-set-for-deep-cuts-as-black-lung-epidemic-grows

[George II]

16. Most idiots that are complaining about all the coal mines that have been closed....

....don't realize that most were closed because there wasn't any more useful coal in those mines. And as they're closing, the mining companies don't open new ones because it's not economically feasible to them.

[smirkymonkey]

18. +1000

Facts don't matter to these people. They have an agenda to push.

[FakeNoose]

19. Hillary had the nerve to tell these people that their jobs aren't coming back

Well, they don't want to hear that! They hated her for it, and I guess they blamed Obama. How do they think it's his fault? Coal burning is terrible for the environment, and it's a dangerous, unhealthy job working in the mines. These people need to understand that the Dems are trying to help them retrain for better jobs in safer areas.

[magicarpet]

20. They cling to pipe dreams,..

Make America Great Again - like yesterday when coal was king, government regulations did not hurt industry or coal mining jobs, and coal miners could make $60,000/year working in the coal mines.

Forget coal mining automation.
Forget advancing technology.
Forget cheap natural gas prices.
Forget mine safety.
Forget black lung disease.

We want to turn back the clock and it will magically be yesterday when all was good and America was prosperous.

Fantasies are sufficient - reality is un-wanted and un-necessary.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

22. When Will All The Horsedrawn Carriage Manufacturing Jobs Come Back?

Oh, Big Daddy Government, let me keep doing my job even though it's totally unnecessary because I feel like I'm owed a living. Whatever happened to being a "rugged individualist" and educating yourself how to do a job that ISN'T obsolete? If I worked in a field that was going the way of the dinosaur, I'd learn to do something else rather than whining to the government. It's that whole, "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" thing again. Funny how they're big on that when it's SOMEONE ELSE who needs to do it.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

21. Darwinism Will Take Care Of The Problem

My next door neighbor works for the EPA and is often sent to West Virginia. He's really frustrated because he goes down there and finds coal plants dumping coal waste into the water supply and he's basically powerless to do anything other than shrug his shoulders at it.

So I say let West Virginia keep voting Republican, let them poison their own water and their air, and eventually their population will dwindle to the point that they're an electoral afterthought. In fact, every deep red State should be allowed to ignore ALL safety regulations of every kind. The problem will sort itself out.

I swear, sometimes I wonder if the American people are smart enough to govern themselves. I don't think the Founding Fathers ever envisioned a populace this stupid.