Coal Miners Crushed As White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs

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124. The very people crushed now . . .

are cruising for a further bruising if Trumpcare is passed along with the Republican's draconian budget. The glory days of King Coal are gone but out of work miners heard what they wanted to hear--Trump would save them. The truth is the Trump Administration doesn't give a hoot about Appalachia or blue-color workers or anything but it's own bottom line.

It was a con from the start, a cruel con because proposed funding cuts would strip social services from the hard-pressed, ardent Trump supporters, stripping them of healthcare, disability payments, any hope of corralling the opioid epidemic, reducing educational opportunities for themselves and their children, stripping nutrition and health programs for wives and infants, gutting the food stamp program because the GOP believes any welfare recipient, even if hungry, is a moocher at heart.

So, being crushed about the coal jobs lie is only the beginning. There's a whole lot of pain coming down the track.