Coal miner confronts Hillary in WV

[Fair&Balanced]

The case is closed, Hillary Clinton lied again and all the left can say is coal is bad, ignore the fact Hillary lied. She is a liar, and a very good one at that. Dems you lose, Hillary lied.

I disagree.

Hillary is a TERRIBLE liar, virtually the entire world knows that if she's talking it is almost certainly a lie. Stupid democrats prop her up anyway.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Her statement:

“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” was taken a bit out of context, but let's be clear, the Dimocrat party wants to completely kill the coal industry, so no matter how much Hillary squirms and tries to and take back these words, in the end we all know that voting for Dimocrats is voting for the death of this industry.


Hillary Clinton Confronted By Coal Miner Over Statement That "We’re Going to Put a Lot of Coal Miners" Out of Business

During a round table in West Virginia, a recently unemployed coal worker confronted Hillary Clinton over her remark at a CNN town hall in March that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” In response, Clinton admitted her comment was a “misstatement.”

“How you could say you are going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?” the man, Bo Copley, asked during the round table Monday.

“I don’t know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context for what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time,” the former secretary of state said in reply. “It was a misstatement because what I was saying is the way things are going now, they will continue to lose jobs. It didn’t mean that we were going to do it. What I said is that is going to happen unless we take action to help and prevent it.”

“Now I can’t take it back, and I certainly can’t get people who, for political reasons or personal reasons, very painful reasons, are upset with me,” she continued. “What I want you to know is I’m going to do everything I can to help, no matter what happens politically.”

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton And Coal Jobs

Hillary Clinton, who's campaigning in Appalachia this week, was confronted Monday by an out-of-work coal miner. At a roundtable discussion in West Virginia, Bo Copley asked Clinton, "How you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend. Because those people out there don't see you as a friend."

Clinton apologized for her word choice at a CNN Town Hall back in March. She insists she wants to help coal country through a difficult economic transition.

Let's break it down.

THE CLAIM:
Hillary Clinton is going to "put a lot of coal miners out of jobs."

THE QUESTION:
Did Clinton really say that? What gives?

THE SHORT ANSWER:
Clinton did tell a town hall audience in Columbus, Ohio in March that "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." But that was part of a longer answer about the need to help blue-collar workers adjust. "We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people," Clinton said. "Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on."

THE LONG ANSWER:
A lot of coal miners and coal companies are going out of business. This is partly the result of Obama Administration policies designed to combat climate change, by shifting power-production away from carbon-intensive coal. It's also the result of the fracking boom, which has led to a sharp drop in the price of natural gas. Together, these forces have put coal at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to turning on our lights and powering our factories. A decade and a half ago, more than half the electricity in the U.S. was produced by burning coal. Today that's shrunk to less than a third, and coal continues to lose market share to natural gas and renewable sources of power.

Dozens of U.S. coal companies have filed for bankruptcy protection, including Arch Coal, the parent company of the mine where Bo Copley worked. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has put the Obama Administration's power plant rules on hold temporarily, many utilities continue to shift away from coal for both economic and environmental reasons. Coal mining employment dropped below 75,000 in 2014, with Appalachian mines seeing the steepest declines.

Hillary Clinton suggests those jobs are not coming back. "The way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs," she said Monday. Rather than reversing Obama's climate agenda, as Republicans have promised to do, Clinton wants to help coal country adapt. The $30 billion plan she released last fall calls for increased job training, small-business development, and infrastructure investment, especially in Appalachia. The plan also seeks to safeguard miners' healthcare and pensions. "I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time," Clinton said this week.

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton And Coal Jobs

Who'd want to work in a coal mine? Such a rubbish job.

These guys... Over 11,000 Coal Miners Lost Their Jobs In The Last Year

No stupid ass "green" jobs will ever replace the great pay of coal... Lol

I guess it's part of life when your job no longer is viable any more. They could move off to countries where coal mining is viable and earn pittance for it too, but I doubt they want to.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Her statement:

“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” was taken a bit out of context, but let's be clear, the Dimocrat party wants to completely kill the coal industry, so no matter how much Hillary squirms and tries to and take back these words, in the end we all know that voting for Dimocrats is voting for the death of this industry.


Hillary Clinton Confronted By Coal Miner Over Statement That "We’re Going to Put a Lot of Coal Miners" Out of Business

During a round table in West Virginia, a recently unemployed coal worker confronted Hillary Clinton over her remark at a CNN town hall in March that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” In response, Clinton admitted her comment was a “misstatement.”

“How you could say you are going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?” the man, Bo Copley, asked during the round table Monday.

“I don’t know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context for what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time,” the former secretary of state said in reply. “It was a misstatement because what I was saying is the way things are going now, they will continue to lose jobs. It didn’t mean that we were going to do it. What I said is that is going to happen unless we take action to help and prevent it.”

“Now I can’t take it back, and I certainly can’t get people who, for political reasons or personal reasons, very painful reasons, are upset with me,” she continued. “What I want you to know is I’m going to do everything I can to help, no matter what happens politically.”


Hillary Clinton, who's campaigning in Appalachia this week, was confronted Monday by an out-of-work coal miner. At a roundtable discussion in West Virginia, Bo Copley asked Clinton, "How you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend. Because those people out there don't see you as a friend."

Clinton apologized for her word choice at a CNN Town Hall back in March. She insists she wants to help coal country through a difficult economic transition.

Let's break it down.

THE CLAIM:
Hillary Clinton is going to "put a lot of coal miners out of jobs."

THE QUESTION:
Did Clinton really say that? What gives?

THE SHORT ANSWER:
Clinton did tell a town hall audience in Columbus, Ohio in March that "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." But that was part of a longer answer about the need to help blue-collar workers adjust. "We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people," Clinton said. "Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on."

THE LONG ANSWER:
A lot of coal miners and coal companies are going out of business. This is partly the result of Obama Administration policies designed to combat climate change, by shifting power-production away from carbon-intensive coal. It's also the result of the fracking boom, which has led to a sharp drop in the price of natural gas. Together, these forces have put coal at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to turning on our lights and powering our factories. A decade and a half ago, more than half the electricity in the U.S. was produced by burning coal. Today that's shrunk to less than a third, and coal continues to lose market share to natural gas and renewable sources of power.

Dozens of U.S. coal companies have filed for bankruptcy protection, including Arch Coal, the parent company of the mine where Bo Copley worked. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has put the Obama Administration's power plant rules on hold temporarily, many utilities continue to shift away from coal for both economic and environmental reasons. Coal mining employment dropped below 75,000 in 2014, with Appalachian mines seeing the steepest declines.

Hillary Clinton suggests those jobs are not coming back. "The way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs," she said Monday. Rather than reversing Obama's climate agenda, as Republicans have promised to do, Clinton wants to help coal country adapt. The $30 billion plan she released last fall calls for increased job training, small-business development, and infrastructure investment, especially in Appalachia. The plan also seeks to safeguard miners' healthcare and pensions. "I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time," Clinton said this week.

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton And Coal Jobs

Who'd want to work in a coal mine? Such a rubbish job.

The left sure has some issues with the working men and women.

You know, I worked in this job and met a guy who was doing really well for himself in real estate. He came from a coal mining community. When he was at school the "careers advisor" or whatever they were called came to school and told all the boys how they'd be going down the mines, forget everything else.

This guy said "coal mining is a shit job, I don't want to be like my father", so he went and got a job in a shop. Then from there he was educated in business and was able to move up in the world. Had he stayed, he'd have been in a shit job until they closed it down, and left on the scrap heap with no skills to do anything else.

I'm not against people working. The opposite in fact.

What I'm for is a country inventing itself for certain types of work, and if they can, to do so with jobs that require skills and an educated work force.

For the US to be competing with Vietnam and China for shitty manufacturing jobs is an absolute joke. You don't see richer countries in Europe doing this, many of them have gone for high education routes and come out of it with jobs that require an education and pay accordingly.

Germany, what manufacturing products do you get from Germany? BMWs, Mercedes, Daimler,

The Largest German Companies - Forbes.com

Here's a list, if they produce, they generally do quality, and they generally get higher wages for it.

Trump wants shit manufacturing jobs, and coal mining that'll never be profitable.

Germany is totally dependent on Russia for its energy. dumbass
Lol

Wow, insults.....

 

[Freewill]

The case is closed, Hillary Clinton lied again and all the left can say is coal is bad, ignore the fact Hillary lied. She is a liar, and a very good one at that. Dems you lose, Hillary lied.

Actually, she told the truth then lied about telling the truth. You can understand the confusion, her telling the truth and all. Obama's goal and one she will continue is to bankrupt coal. She can't even come up with original ideas.

 

[Brain357]

lets see how Hillary will "Esplain Herself" in the debates when/if Trump asks her and has to explain to the beast that we need coal for electricity/fuel....like the fuel Hillary needs for her private jet.

I doubt her jet is run on coal...

 

[Freewill]

lets see how Hillary will "Esplain Herself" in the debates when/if Trump asks her and has to explain to the beast that we need coal for electricity/fuel....like the fuel Hillary needs for her private jet.

I doubt her jet is run on coal...

If we were smart and forward thinking her jet could be run on coal.

 

[JoeB131]

And we have a bunch of people who should know better blocking any attempts to move nuclear forward.

Who are these people? It isn't a bunch of tree-huggers. It's the guys who own oil and coal.

 

[hadit]

And we have a bunch of people who should know better blocking any attempts to move nuclear forward.

Who are these people? It isn't a bunch of tree-huggers. It's the guys who own oil and coal.

I really don't care who is blocking the way, they need to move. We need to use ALL the resources at our disposal to achieve energy independence. Then no one in the ME could hold it hostage to coerce us to do anything we didn't want to do. And yes, tree-huggers oppose nuclear energy. Heck, some of them think 3 Mile Island was a failure instead of a successful implementation of safety protocols.

 

[FJO]

lets see how Hillary will "Esplain Herself" in the debates when/if Trump asks her and has to explain to the beast that we need coal for electricity/fuel....like the fuel Hillary needs for her private jet.

Coal doesn't fuel jets. Coal is not needed for fuel or electricity. That was generations ago. Coal is the horse and buggy of the fuel/energy debate. It's been replaced with cleaner sources of energy.

Just like buggy makers had to learn to do something else with their lives, so will coal miners. They'll have jobs that won't lead to their premature deaths. Imagine that.

Horse and buggy (and the typewriter, as mentioned in a previous post) became obsolete due to technological advances, not due to governmental fiat.

The intention of killing the coal industry by liberal government is based on a phony bogus theory, like global warming or climate change. Fueled by by the Left's intense hatred and disdain for honest working people like coal miners.

 

[FJO]

On the contrary, we don't eliminate coal because we don't want to pay a lot more for electricity.

we don't eliminate coal because unlike France or Japan, which went all nuclear decades ago, we have a coal industry that sends people to washington to prop it up.

It is a safe bet that you would among the first ones to protest at the ground breaking of a new nuclear plant.

 

[Stephanie]

I guess they didn't buy Hillary's lies right to their face

Go Trump

snip
VIDEO=> WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINERS ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP

May 5th, 2016 7:02 pm

DONALD TRUMP SPEAKS IN CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA–

TONIGHT TRUMP CAME OUT ON STAGE FLANKED BY MINERS—

Trump announced they handed out 32,000 tickets but the arena only holds 15,000!
Another packed rally!

Trump is ON FIRE in West Virginia at his rally tonight!

all of it and a video at the site
VIDEO=> WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINERS ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP

 

[Stephanie]

Well ran across this. they sure didn't buy into her lies right in their face. the VIDEO of her at the site.

snip:
West Virginia Miners on Hillary Clinton: She “Lies to Our Face,” She Can “Stay Out of Our State” (VIDEO)

May 4th, 2016 8:42 pm

Coal companies have been scorched under Obama as he promised. Five years ago there were three hundred coal mines in West Virginia. Today thanks to Barack Obama there are less than 70. Obama and Hillary killed coal.

In March Hillary Clinton bragged during a CNN town hall in Ohio that she was going to put coal miners out of work.
She wants to eliminate jobs as president.

video and the rest here:
West Virginia Miners on Hillary Clinton: She "Lies to Our Face," She Can "Stay Out of Our State" (VIDEO)

 

[JoeB131]

It is a safe bet that you would among the first ones to protest at the ground breaking of a new nuclear plant.

Meh, not really, I have no problem with nuclear energy. I do think we need to be smarter about how we dispose of the waste it produces...

 

[Dragonlady]

lets see how Hillary will "Esplain Herself" in the debates when/if Trump asks her and has to explain to the beast that we need coal for electricity/fuel....like the fuel Hillary needs for her private jet.

Coal doesn't fuel jets. Coal is not needed for fuel or electricity. That was generations ago. Coal is the horse and buggy of the fuel/energy debate. It's been replaced with cleaner sources of energy.

Just like buggy makers had to learn to do something else with their lives, so will coal miners. They'll have jobs that won't lead to their premature deaths. Imagine that.

Horse and buggy (and the typewriter, as mentioned in a previous post) became obsolete due to technological advances, not due to governmental fiat.

The intention of killing the coal industry by liberal government is based on a phony bogus theory, like global warming or climate change. Fueled by by the Left's intense hatred and disdain for honest working people like coal miners.

Bullshit. Coal is a killer. Black lung disease for the miners, mine collapses, deaths due to asthma and COPD from the pollution created by burning coal.

As a high school student, I worked in the tobacco fields in the summer. It was good money, back then. We all smoked back then.

I suppose you think people should all go back to smoking too, because the tobacco farmers are all going out of business.

 

[EriktheRed]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

oh wait, uhm, i mispoke, uh, thats not what i meant. yah, why is it that every time Hillary is caught in a lie, she later has to explain herself,,,like with the Benghazi Videos!

Now you're lying. Even the Republican-led been Ghazi investigation found no wrongdoing.

Shit son, you just don't pay attention. SHE HERSELF ADMITTED TO LYING. Though she said it was a foul up.

Don't you remember?

And when the question was pushed, it turned out you nutters really didn't have an answer.