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The coal country voter (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2017 OP
The guy is sensible. Glad to see he realizes the miners need to unionize brush Jan 2017 #1
Sad to say,this fellow has to make Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #2
While I have moved many times... Yurovsky Jan 2017 #4
Oh how I know the feeling. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #5
So Hillary should've told miners coal jobs were coming back? oasis Jan 2017 #3

brush

(57,495 posts)
1. The guy is sensible. Glad to see he realizes the miners need to unionize
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 09:45 PM
Jan 2017

A little late though after they rejected Hillary's retraining and green energy jobs proposals and vote for trump and the repugs who will probably put colletive bargaining on the chopping block.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Sad to say,this fellow has to make
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:04 PM
Jan 2017

a decision,do I stay with a hopeless situation or pick up and get the hell out. Many of us have had to make changes more than once knowing full well what we had is not going to return.

Yurovsky

(2,064 posts)
4. While I have moved many times...
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:11 PM
Jan 2017

there are people who have lived in the same town their whole life, some having never been out of the county. Their entire family and everyone they know resides within 10 or 20 miles of where they live. It has probably never occurred to many of them that they COULD move, let alone SHOULD move.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Oh how I know the feeling.
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:26 PM
Jan 2017

Had to make that jump five times in sixty two years of employment. Continuing Education was the key for myself and my wonder Spouse. Know what it is like to see years of Employment go away overnight with Corporations filing Bankruptcy and refusing to make final Pay-roll and or Paying Quarterly Withholding or Fica Taxes. But,like others in the same boat,we made it happen and like you mentioned,yes so many refused to see the picture in front of them only to now be in misery and poverty.

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