Legislators will wait til next year to bring back child labor In a year when Donald Trump has promised to bring back the coal industry and all the mining jobs, the West Virginia state legislature is following up with a proposed law that would bring back the coal industry, too -- to safety standards that might bring a twinkle to the eye of a 19th-century robber baron. Trump's efforts to bring back Big Coal started by allowing mining operations to
Dear God - this is the most cruel and outright fuck-witted piece of legislation to come from a legislature in several generations.
I am absolutely ropable (furious) and helpless to do anything to help the United Mine Workers fight this. The utter, utter nastiness of deregulating mine owners - who are known for their historical disdain for workers' safety - has me gobsmacked.
Yes, because going to a place makes people want to vote for you. It's why Hillary won, PA, OH, NC and FL.
Dems have been trying to help people there for decades. Robert Bryd even got provisions put in the ACA specifically to help people get black lung benefits. Did they vote to keep the ACA? nope.
Hillary's plan for helping these people specifically, was out there. But it was twisted to mean something other than what it was, and they couldn't be bothered to find out the truth. And no way if she went there, it would have mattered. They aren't listening to the facts, no matter who tells them. They want their hate, and their lies.
Bill Maher had an industry toady on. To Bill's suggestion that they move away from coal to the manufacture of green energy technology, he said, "I think it's unreasonable to expect a 55-year-old man who'd worked in the mines his entire life to be trained as a solar energy engineer."
That's like arguing against GM coming into the state because it was unreasonable to expect a 55-year-old who'd worked in the mines his entire life to be trained as an automotive engineer.
Cold hard math says to hell with the economically-insecure white voters. Trump got about the same percentage of white vote as Mitt Romney. Millenials stayed home (for all their various reasons), and voting by groups who support Democrats and liberal policies targeted by disenfranchisement laws in red states were greatly reduced.
We should focus on GOTV programs for millenials (God knows what those would be), turn some of these red states blue, and get rid of these disenfranchisement laws.
It'll be a win-win for them. Their lives will be dramatically improved by the implementation of Democratic policies, and they'll still get to spend all their time bitching about the damned libtards taking their freedoms.
Oh yeah. The Trump voters get no sympathy. But schadenfreude only tastes good in small doses. After too much, it just gets bitter and sad, and I don't want to be like them.
I picked up The Hunger Games at a display in a grocery store and checked out the beginning. It was written in present tense. Not a big fan of that for novel length. I can tolerate it for a short story, but not the long haul.
If Bannon was a master of elventy-dimensional chess (no idea), I'd go with the second scenario. If he bumps off Pence, then Trump, it will be seen as a blatant power move and would be hard for even die-hard conservatives to accept. The speakership lets him do the same thing and just look incredibly lucky.
Got news for you. I live in an area that makes West Virginia look overpopulated. In fact, we're clannish to the extreme, and I've heard all the jokes since I was a kid - I'm from one of the original families here. I hear the same crap from various people here, and you know what? It's the same bullshit. Well over half the population is either collecting Social Security, disability, on SNAP benefits, and they all bitch and whine about those "moochers." The other big group works at a government job (state or local), and they whine and moan about the same thing. The mines in this region - except for a garnet mine - closed 30 years ago, and people still talk about the "good old days," except from all accounts, the mines were a truly sucky job. But here's the thing: Every single election, they'll walk into a voting booth and pull the lever for the Republicans. 2/3'rds of them voted for Trump, and it was about the same for our current Congresswoman. But they'll all scream their heads off when when Republicans turn around and do exactly what they said they were going to do about cutting government entitlements, and it means their entitlements. So, yeah, I do understand the "cycle" and you know what? I'm sick and tired of hearing people whine about it, and either deny that that the "good times" will not return, do nothing to work on alternatives for their local economy, and then elect politicians who will make sure that they get screwed. Elections have consequences, and too many (mostly white) areas have been in a state of denial because they think the consequences won't be to them. Now, if truth hurts, tough.
They live in despair and they want hope and they fell for a charlatan. Hate derives from fear. Looking down on these people because they are ignorant is crass and dumb politics AND exactly why Democrats lost the election.And on "going to a place", a classic Tip O'Neil story: his first election was for a local office and he lost. The next day he saw his lifetime neighbor. She told him how sorry she was that he lost. He thanked her and said he appreciated her vote."Oh, I didn't vote for you," she said.Why not?" he asked."Because you never asked me," she replied.
Conservaturds never said word one about the plight of those 60,000+ Blockbuster employees who lost their jobs within months due to rapid technology changes.
Coal miners and ancillary support industries have decades of transition heads up. Not to mention the myriad employment opportunities available due to their unique geographical and cultural connections to the vast history of coal mining country.
Dear God - this is the most cruel and outright fuck-witted piece of legislation to come from a legislature in several generations.
I am absolutely ropable (furious) and helpless to do anything to help the United Mine Workers fight this. The utter, utter nastiness of deregulating mine owners - who are known for their historical disdain for workers' safety - has me gobsmacked.
Child labor laws are killing the coal industry.
Yes, because going to a place makes people want to vote for you. It's why Hillary won, PA, OH, NC and FL.
Dems have been trying to help people there for decades. Robert Bryd even got provisions put in the ACA specifically to help people get black lung benefits. Did they vote to keep the ACA? nope.
Hillary's plan for helping these people specifically, was out there. But it was twisted to mean something other than what it was, and they couldn't be bothered to find out the truth. And no way if she went there, it would have mattered. They aren't listening to the facts, no matter who tells them. They want their hate, and their lies.
Horse, water, yadda.
I do hope there's a concurrent bill to eliminate class action lawsuits against corporations, or there'll be hell to pay.
Tourists will find the state delightfully free of natives with the elimination of all the coal miners killed on the job.
Bill Maher had an industry toady on. To Bill's suggestion that they move away from coal to the manufacture of green energy technology, he said, "I think it's unreasonable to expect a 55-year-old man who'd worked in the mines his entire life to be trained as a solar energy engineer."
That's like arguing against GM coming into the state because it was unreasonable to expect a 55-year-old who'd worked in the mines his entire life to be trained as an automotive engineer.
One, of course, is still the loneliest number.
Cold hard math says to hell with the economically-insecure white voters. Trump got about the same percentage of white vote as Mitt Romney. Millenials stayed home (for all their various reasons), and voting by groups who support Democrats and liberal policies targeted by disenfranchisement laws in red states were greatly reduced.
We should focus on GOTV programs for millenials (God knows what those would be), turn some of these red states blue, and get rid of these disenfranchisement laws.
It'll be a win-win for them. Their lives will be dramatically improved by the implementation of Democratic policies, and they'll still get to spend all their time bitching about the damned libtards taking their freedoms.
Oh yeah. The Trump voters get no sympathy. But schadenfreude only tastes good in small doses. After too much, it just gets bitter and sad, and I don't want to be like them.
I picked up The Hunger Games at a display in a grocery store and checked out the beginning. It was written in present tense. Not a big fan of that for novel length. I can tolerate it for a short story, but not the long haul.
If Bannon was a master of elventy-dimensional chess (no idea), I'd go with the second scenario. If he bumps off Pence, then Trump, it will be seen as a blatant power move and would be hard for even die-hard conservatives to accept. The speakership lets him do the same thing and just look incredibly lucky.
Got news for you. I live in an area that makes West Virginia look overpopulated. In fact, we're clannish to the extreme, and I've heard all the jokes since I was a kid - I'm from one of the original families here. I hear the same crap from various people here, and you know what? It's the same bullshit. Well over half the population is either collecting Social Security, disability, on SNAP benefits, and they all bitch and whine about those "moochers." The other big group works at a government job (state or local), and they whine and moan about the same thing. The mines in this region - except for a garnet mine - closed 30 years ago, and people still talk about the "good old days," except from all accounts, the mines were a truly sucky job. But here's the thing: Every single election, they'll walk into a voting booth and pull the lever for the Republicans. 2/3'rds of them voted for Trump, and it was about the same for our current Congresswoman. But they'll all scream their heads off when when Republicans turn around and do exactly what they said they were going to do about cutting government entitlements, and it means their entitlements. So, yeah, I do understand the "cycle" and you know what? I'm sick and tired of hearing people whine about it, and either deny that that the "good times" will not return, do nothing to work on alternatives for their local economy, and then elect politicians who will make sure that they get screwed. Elections have consequences, and too many (mostly white) areas have been in a state of denial because they think the consequences won't be to them. Now, if truth hurts, tough.
They live in despair and they want hope and they fell for a charlatan. Hate derives from fear. Looking down on these people because they are ignorant is crass and dumb politics AND exactly why Democrats lost the election.And on "going to a place", a classic Tip O'Neil story: his first election was for a local office and he lost. The next day he saw his lifetime neighbor. She told him how sorry she was that he lost. He thanked her and said he appreciated her vote."Oh, I didn't vote for you," she said.Why not?" he asked."Because you never asked me," she replied.
There is something symbolic about a fist to he face, though.
Why is this confusing? Nobody says there won't be spawn, but some of them will die off earlier than they would.
Conservaturds never said word one about the plight of those 60,000+ Blockbuster employees who lost their jobs within months due to rapid technology changes.
Coal miners and ancillary support industries have decades of transition heads up. Not to mention the myriad employment opportunities available due to their unique geographical and cultural connections to the vast history of coal mining country.