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As Trump Boosts Coal Industry, Black Lung Miners Say They've Been 'Cast Aside to Die'
(www.commondreams.org)
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They are never going to get those jobs back, and its high time they accept that their beloved rugged and country song worthy lifestyle doesn't exist anymore.
The willful ignorance is palpable. Like 0 vision on how the whole process would work, and 100% based on feels and a total disregard for the logistics, supply and demand, etc...
Theses people are asking for the impossible, and expect that someone do all the thinking for them so they can never back down from their position.
And to do what? Mine and dig holes for a product that can't even sustain them? Theses people are so enamored with a past that can't exist anymore and right wing politicians keep nourishing this impossible expectation for votes, and they fall for it Every. Goddamn. Time.
Like the frustration people feel for this is insane. Honestly, the local gov should give them a mine to throw their lives at in an attempt to make a living and let them fail spectacularly (or succeed, no one is against their success, but its most likely not gonna happen.)