Who WOULDN'T want to create more jobs like this? Hey, unemployed takers, were you encouraged by the Make America Work Again plan revealed at the Republican National Convention last night? Turns out that all we really need is a pick, shovel and some gumption, and we'll all be highly paid union members creating clean, safe energy by workin' in a coal mine!
The LES Tenement Museum is not far from my home. I'm the granddaughter of a union garment worker. Both my parents were in unions, as was elder sister (until her retirement) and her late husband. I've never been able to find a union job, and right now, I'd take any job that would help keep the roof over my head.
Even before the decline due to automation, price declines in other energy sources, and the move to greener sources, coal mining areas were amongst the poorest in the nation. There's no economic boom for the masses there. There never was.
My grandfather was the last experienced blacksmith in our town. It simply cost too much to keep the forge lit and hot enough for people who needed his services only once every few months, so he shut it down, but didn't break it down. After that, he charged a premium for custom horseshoes for thoroughbred horse breeders. Nearly all of the costs came not from forging the shoes, but from firing up the forge itself.
Its horrifying what people don't know!
Buggy whips.
The LES Tenement Museum is not far from my home. I'm the granddaughter of a union garment worker. Both my parents were in unions, as was elder sister (until her retirement) and her late husband. I've never been able to find a union job, and right now, I'd take any job that would help keep the roof over my head.
Yum.
Why won't you share? Oh, never mind. I'd rather a silversmith or a goldsmith, anyway.
That's one of the saddest things I've seen today.
I've been to the museum. It's amazing to see how people worked and lived back then.
Best of luck on the job search.
Come on! Leather aprons...sparks...sweaty biceps. You don't get that with silversmiths and goldsmiths, do ya?
And I would share.
But doncha understand? Solar power is dirty hippie commie power and it gets icky dirty hippie commie all over you when you use it.
REAL 'Murricans roll coal!
Even before the decline due to automation, price declines in other energy sources, and the move to greener sources, coal mining areas were amongst the poorest in the nation. There's no economic boom for the masses there. There never was.
That's different, because they "earned" it!
My grandfather was the last experienced blacksmith in our town. It simply cost too much to keep the forge lit and hot enough for people who needed his services only once every few months, so he shut it down, but didn't break it down. After that, he charged a premium for custom horseshoes for thoroughbred horse breeders. Nearly all of the costs came not from forging the shoes, but from firing up the forge itself.
Well, considering that he has a much smaller murder toll than his opponent, yeah, it's clear who's on our side:
http://www.patheos.com/blog...
Or the bobbin lace sweatshops?
According to the Department of Energy, there are only 74,931 coal workers in the entire US, as of 2014:
http://www.nma.org/pdf/c_em...
Granted, they don't count contract workers at small facilities, so the numbers could get close to 80,000.
But I doubt it.
The Craig Nelson defense!