| shikamaru317 said: So what exactly do you green energy fans propose be done about employing the coal miners you want to put out of work? Since 2011 60,000 coal miners have been laid off, and there are still 77,000 more coal miners who will be laid off if coal mining is abandoned. These people have a skill set that doesn't transfer over to many other jobs. Many towns in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania are built exclusively around the coal mining industry, there simply aren't any other jobs for these miners to work near them. Are you willing to pay increased taxes in order to retrain these out of work coal miners? Personally I'm all for retraining them, but I have a feeling many of the people who want green energy aren't willing to pay higher taxes to retrain the employees they want to put out of work. |
They do what the people who taught type writing, the people who steam power did -get different jobs. Their jobs have no future and will face extinction. Do you propose that we keep steam workers too? Or prehaps those working on the printing press machines from the 1850's also need to still be around because screw progress.
The leaders of green energy in the future are the people who will shape and control the world. Saying we should keep coal while our competition gets cheaper and infinite energy while our finite energy is fastly depleting is ludicrous. Unless you prefer the US not be a super power in the next few decades, then go right ahead. Because screw the vastly superior ways to harvest energy as long as it brings a smile to at least one toothless coal miners face. A job in which you are almost expected to suffer massive medical problems that are rarely insured.
Because let's be honest here, not a single person -Democrat, Republican, or anything else, gives a single fuck about coal miners. They've proven it time and time again. No side cares about them. You, don't care about them. The only people who care are those who profit from them like Mr. Scott Pruitt.
