Coal Miners in Full Revolt After Supporting Obama in 2008

[AuH20]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/02/coal-miners-union-in-full-revolt-after-supporting-obama-in-2008/


It’s unlikely that United Mine Workers of America president Cecil Roberts thought he would be arrested protesting the energy policies of the very politician his union supported in 2008. But things have come full circle for coal miners, who now see President Obama’s climate agenda threatening their livelihoods.

Roberts and other UMWA members were arrested Thursday marching through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, towards the federal building where the Environmental Protection Agency was holding field hearings for a new rule that could very well force more coal mines and plants to shut down.

Roberts was leading about 5,000 coal miners, their families and supporters to show the EPA that coal miners, boilermakers, electric workers and other unions did not support the Obama administration’s new regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.

“This was an expression by the leadership of the union and the solidarity for our members when our jobs are on the line … it’s what it’s all about,” Roberts said while being arrested.


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[mad cow]

They must be slow learners.From January,2008-ten months before the election:

"So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted." ~ Barack Hussein Obama

[Henry Rogue]

They must be slow learners.From January,2008-ten months before the election:

"So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted." ~ Barack Hussein Obama

They will support the next guy who says the same thing.

[oyarde]

At this point , a coal miner voting for a Dem for any National office would be mentally ill .

[youngbuck]

I'm in full agreement with the above posts. They're a bunch of hoodwinked dummies for supporting him to begin with! Little do they realize, their industry (and most others) would be far better off with RP in office...

[Deborah K]

Here's an ad the lying sack of shit ran about supporting clean coal energy during his first campaign:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GehK7Q_QxPc

[HOLLYWOOD]

Just look at the history of populations of coal-steel-tree-mining towns of the northeast... towns and cities of 30-40-50 thousand are reduced to 3-4-5 thousand today. What was once private industry producing, is now reduced to poverty and imprisoned to the largest employer, government welfare.

Again, it's the idiots that can't see more than a few feet in front of their noses, the idiots that cannot foresee a few days into the future, and the same idiots that are complicit in accelerating the destruction of a once free and prosperous America.

Any of these morons that continue to support their very own destruction via proxy of Washington DC, deserve the most dire of all consequences.