| 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. |
You have a great example I believe in virginia. They had 1500 employees working in the coal mines and the company wanted to do in a new way so they let everyone learn it who wanted to learn it at the end they only hired 100 of them because of automation and a new way of mining that needs way less people. So opening coal mines or dig more for coal will not end up creating the amount of jobs some people expect.
Secondly those regions have basically millions of people who gave up in finding a job and I don't feel bad for them. Especially when you have millions of immigrants who move from a far away country with no skills and don't speak English and still make it in the USA. If you choose to stay in a region where a lot of people are unemployed for +5 years and all they do is complain about the goverment but at the same time don't make any plans to move away to a better region in the USA and take it in their own hands then I are themselves to blame.
