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As I've said many times on this forum, we need to train our children for the jobs of tomorrow, not the jobs of their fathers.
Some people aspire to the jobs of their fathers.
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As I've said many times on this forum, we need to train our children for the jobs of tomorrow, not the jobs of their fathers.
Hey Stupid, you have thousands making $8-$9/hr, and handful of project managers making $121K.That's about right
40 hrs X 57 per hr = 2280 per week
2280 per week X 52 weeks = 118,560 per year
Coal mining is an extraction industry. When an extraction industry ends, every person and community dependent on that industry is left with not just nothing, but less than nothing. They’re left carrying the cost in health care for all the people harmed by companies that saw health and safety regulations as an obstacle to be avoided. They’re left with the environmental consequences of an industry that, by its nature, destroys not just forests and streams but entire mountains and valleys. They’re left with an economy hollowed out by a company that, in its final retreat, leaves behind neither a workforce nor conditions that attract a replacement.
What does a community look like when an extraction industry shuts down? Pick any ghost town in the West. That’s what it looks like.
In 2018, the Sierra Club took a look at the town of Lynch, Kentucky, to see what a mining community was like when the mines left. They found it “hollowed out” and falling to ruin. But Lynch is just one of many such towns. I’ve been there. I’ve seen them. It’s not just that the only industry in town has left, it’s that the industry left behind valleys filled with rubble, streets edged with coal that spilled from passing trucks, a water supply spoiled by acid runoff. I’ve been there. I grew up there. And in my decades as a geologist for a major coal mining company, I helped perpetuate it.
When the mining stops, what’s left are sick people and a failing town; the kind of community where even those who have worked themselves into “middle class respectability” suddenly find that their home is worth nothing, their loc al schools are bankrupt, and all their debts are as big as ever.
Right now, Joe Manchin is standing in the way of a reconciliation bill that offers West Virginia an off ramp on the road to ruin. And why he’s doing it … that doesn’t even really matter.
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Vote Manchin and Republicans out of office, and your lives will get better because of that alone.
Quit pretending that you give a flying fuck about people in West Virginia, you elitist punk.Coal mining is an extraction industry. When an extraction industry ends, every person and community dependent on that industry is left with not just nothing, but less than nothing. They’re left carrying the cost in health care for all the people harmed by companies that saw health and safety regulations as an obstacle to be avoided. They’re left with the environmental consequences of an industry that, by its nature, destroys not just forests and streams but entire mountains and valleys. They’re left with an economy hollowed out by a company that, in its final retreat, leaves behind neither a workforce nor conditions that attract a replacement.
What does a community look like when an extraction industry shuts down? Pick any ghost town in the West. That’s what it looks like.
In 2018, the Sierra Club took a look at the town of Lynch, Kentucky, to see what a mining community was like when the mines left. They found it “hollowed out” and falling to ruin. But Lynch is just one of many such towns. I’ve been there. I’ve seen them. It’s not just that the only industry in town has left, it’s that the industry left behind valleys filled with rubble, streets edged with coal that spilled from passing trucks, a water supply spoiled by acid runoff. I’ve been there. I grew up there. And in my decades as a geologist for a major coal mining company, I helped perpetuate it.
When the mining stops, what’s left are sick people and a failing town; the kind of community where even those who have worked themselves into “middle class respectability” suddenly find that their home is worth nothing, their local schools are bankrupt, and all their debts are as big as ever.
Right now, Joe Manchin is standing in the way of a reconciliation bill that offers West Virginia an off ramp on the road to ruin. And why he’s doing it … that doesn’t even really matter.
Daily Kos
Daily Kos is a progressive news site that fights for democracy by giving our audience information and resources to win elections and impact government. Our coverage is assiduously factual, ethical, and unapologetically liberal. We amplify what we think is important, with the proper context—not...m.dailykos.com
Vote Manchin and Republicans out of office, and your lives will get better because of that alone.
LOLArbey's pays up to $57 per hour.
He is an idiot hack....those words are not even his own. They are talking points and as usual Talking points are uninformed and one sided.Quit pretending that you give a flying fuck about people in West Virginia, you elitist punk.
Bayan-Obo, China’s largest rare earths project, has been operating for more than four decades. According to the Germany-based Institute for Applied Ecology, the site now has an 11-square-kilometer waste pond — about three times the size of New York City’s Central Park — with toxic sludge that contains elevated concentrations of thorium.A half-century of rare earths mining in China has caused serious environmental problems.
Coal mining is an extraction industry. When an extraction industry ends, every person and community dependent on that industry is left with not just nothing, but less than nothing. They’re left carrying the cost in health care for all the people harmed by companies that saw health and safety regulations as an obstacle to be avoided. They’re left with the environmental consequences of an industry that, by its nature, destroys not just forests and streams but entire mountains and valleys. They’re left with an economy hollowed out by a company that, in its final retreat, leaves behind neither a workforce nor conditions that attract a replacement.
What does a community look like when an extraction industry shuts down? Pick any ghost town in the West. That’s what it looks like.
In 2018, the Sierra Club took a look at the town of Lynch, Kentucky, to see what a mining community was like when the mines left. They found it “hollowed out” and falling to ruin. But Lynch is just one of many such towns. I’ve been there. I’ve seen them. It’s not just that the only industry in town has left, it’s that the industry left behind valleys filled with rubble, streets edged with coal that spilled from passing trucks, a water supply spoiled by acid runoff. I’ve been there. I grew up there. And in my decades as a geologist for a major coal mining company, I helped perpetuate it.
When the mining stops, what’s left are sick people and a failing town; the kind of community where even those who have worked themselves into “middle class respectability” suddenly find that their home is worth nothing, their local schools are bankrupt, and all their debts are as big as ever.
Right now, Joe Manchin is standing in the way of a reconciliation bill that offers West Virginia an off ramp on the road to ruin. And why he’s doing it … that doesn’t even really matter.
Daily Kos
Daily Kos is a progressive news site that fights for democracy by giving our audience information and resources to win elections and impact government. Our coverage is assiduously factual, ethical, and unapologetically liberal. We amplify what we think is important, with the proper context—not...m.dailykos.com
Vote Manchin and Republicans out of office, and your lives will get better because of that alone.
One of the reasons that elemetary economics isn't taught anymore....You'd learn things like trade-offs, push-down-pop-up, externalities, and a slew of other basic concepts of which the "green" watermelons are blissfully ignorant.He is an idiot hack....those words are not even his own. They are talking points and as usual Talking points are uninformed and one sided.
Look at what Wind and Solar have done:
Bayan-Obo, China’s largest rare earths project, has been operating for more than four decades. According to the Germany-based Institute for Applied Ecology, the site now has an 11-square-kilometer waste pond — about three times the size of New York City’s Central Park — with toxic sludge that contains elevated concentrations of thorium.
China’s lax environmental standards have enabled it to produce rare earths at roughly a third the price of its international competitors, according to a 2010 report on the country’s rare earths industry by the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. The report noted that China “has never actually worked out pollutant discharge standards for the rare earth industry.”
Like nuclear power plants, rare earths projects require strict independent auditing in order to prevent environmental damage, according to Peter Karamoskos, a nuclear radiologist and the public’s representative at Australia’s Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency. But as the rare earths industry expands to developing countries like Malaysia and Vietnam, such oversight will be unlikely. “A regulator will either be in the pocket of the industry or a government,” he says.
Coal mining is an extraction industry. When an extraction industry ends, every person and community dependent on that industry is left with not just nothing, but less than nothing. They’re left carrying the cost in health care for all the people harmed by companies that saw health and safety regulations as an obstacle to be avoided. They’re left with the environmental consequences of an industry that, by its nature, destroys not just forests and streams but entire mountains and valleys. They’re left with an economy hollowed out by a company that, in its final retreat, leaves behind neither a workforce nor conditions that attract a replacement.
What does a community look like when an extraction industry shuts down? Pick any ghost town in the West. That’s what it looks like.
In 2018, the Sierra Club took a look at the town of Lynch, Kentucky, to see what a mining community was like when the mines left. They found it “hollowed out” and falling to ruin. But Lynch is just one of many such towns. I’ve been there. I’ve seen them. It’s not just that the only industry in town has left, it’s that the industry left behind valleys filled with rubble, streets edged with coal that spilled from passing trucks, a water supply spoiled by acid runoff. I’ve been there. I grew up there. And in my decades as a geologist for a major coal mining company, I helped perpetuate it.
When the mining stops, what’s left are sick people and a failing town; the kind of community where even those who have worked themselves into “middle class respectability” suddenly find that their home is worth nothing, their local schools are bankrupt, and all their debts are as big as ever.
Right now, Joe Manchin is standing in the way of a reconciliation bill that offers West Virginia an off ramp on the road to ruin. And why he’s doing it … that doesn’t even really matter.
Daily Kos
Daily Kos is a progressive news site that fights for democracy by giving our audience information and resources to win elections and impact government. Our coverage is assiduously factual, ethical, and unapologetically liberal. We amplify what we think is important, with the proper context—not...m.dailykos.com
Vote Manchin and Republicans out of office, and your lives will get better because of that alone.
Amen.If he jumps ship, you retarted mother fuckers are finished, so keep beating him up you dumb ass
Amen! Manchin is a greedy fool who is beholden to his donors and personal coal investments. He is betraying his constituents and state. Shame on him!
Would be nice if 4 House critters would jump that sinking disasterAmen.
Please keep fucking with Manchin and Sinema. The resulting flogging is going to be epic.
Manchin is a faithful State politician sensitive to his States employment needs. He's not a member of the sect of Gaia. And frankly neither are any of the Democrats... They are all members of the sect of f****** put green bucks in my wallet.Amen! Manchin is a greedy fool who is beholden to his donors and personal coal investments. He is betraying his constituents and state. Shame on him!
Manchin is a faithful State politician sensitive to his States employment needs. He's not a member of the sect of Gaia. And frankly neither are any of the Democrats... They are all members of the sect of f****** put green bucks in my wallet.
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Some people aspire to the jobs of their fathers.
So? I never said that was the average wage. I said up to.Hey Stupid, you have thousands making $8-$9/hr, and handful of project managers making $121K.
If you can cherry pick facts, why can't I?