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In reply to the discussion: Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining [View all]Hekate
(90,674 posts)Robots are an expensive investment bosses want to protect. Humans, not so much.
As the coal seams play out and miners have to drill through different kinds of rock to extract the last bits, there's an even worse lung disease that shows up too. Great prospect for your sons, guys.
I'm sorry their ancestral way of life is dying out, and I know change is hard. I know that if they can't or won't attract different industries to their area, that they will have to leave. But Hillary Clinton told them the truth -- that they would have to retrain; and she told them she had a plan to attract new industries to their region so they wouldn't have to leave -- and they spit in her eye in a rage.
Donald Trump told them a flat-out lie, and they helped elect him president.