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- whatthefunk6
- Just calling like it is.Ramanisky2
- what kind of opportunities would an uneducated, unskilled, no money, shit hole citizen have here in the US?omg
- let’s ask omgGuyFawkes
- same as you, omg, same as youmonospaced
- access to welfare is not opportunity.omg
- that’s because you’re unskilled, uneducated and have no money, you retardmonospaced
- the low skill workers have enough opportunities that you're here complaining about them. https://www.youtube.…dorf
- Obama sold us out, created high taxes, and high unemployment.omg
- You're a fucking idiot. Obama admin's moves to save us from Bush's great recession lowered unemployment every month he was in officeallthethings
- nice try omg. you can't offer a counter so you post some nonsense about obama. SAD!dorf
- Make QBN Yawn Againgarbage
- Giving Obama credit for this economic turnaround? Latino and Black unemployment hitting 17-Year low and Booming Stock Market. Manufacturing jobs boom. ok.omg
- How exactly does killing off 83,000 coal mining jobs lower unemployment?omg
- /\lost 83,000 but gained 11,250,000 - manufacturing and fossil energy have been in decline in the states for decades and you're ready to blame it on one person.ben_
- You know Obama could have tried to save those jobs instead of destroying those lives of hardworking people.omg
- states implemented training programs for those displaced so they could transition to other industries thanks to obama era grants and funds.dorf
- Ineffective re-training programs. If there are no jobs, there's nothing you can train them for. They already had good skilled jobs, Obama didn't MAGA for them.omg
- why aren't you blaming the energy markets for its supply of cheap natural gas? explain how obama could've "saved those jobs"?dorf
- Clean coal technology would have been a good start. Better than killing those Sun Tanning Salons.omg
- ok, "clean coal" is a myth but suppose that it works. natural gas is cheaper to produce, what then?dorf
- How is it a myth when many examples of clean coal technologies are operating throughout the U.S.?omg
- The advantage of clean coal is environmental friendliness, yet coal is still used in many places in the world.omg
- So when the sun don't shine and the wind doesn't blow, coal is where you go and it won't blow up in your face like natural gas.omg
- Dude, it's 83,000 vs 11,250,000 - life literally sucks sometimes. Think of all the manufacturing jobs lost because Americans insisted on making EVERYTHING cheapben_
- Perhaps start with incineration energy to burn the copious amounts of garbage your country offloads to everywhere else in the world, retrain those 83,000...ben_
- ...to load garbage into a chute, push a button and repeat. It's working in Scandinavia!ben_
- lol. life sucks huh? tell me how bad your life sucks. what a load of bullshit!omg
- again, how do you save coal jobs when the energy industry is moving to cheaper sources?dorf
- I didn't say my life sucks, only that the reality of life sucks sometimes. It's too bad people have lost their jobs, but you're talking about .028%ben_
- of the American population like it's the end of the fucking world. Some may not find jobs or retraining and that's truly sad, but that is part of life.ben_
- The economic policies that Trump supports and you support by proxy will do much worse to many more.ben_
- Where are you getting your .028% from? Is that based on how many people live on the planet?omg
- @dorf. to save those coal jobs, they could focus on storage compression and transportation.omg
- @omg - no it's based on 300,000,000 people, which is less than the entire population of America.ben_
- So a little more math for you - if the working population of the states is about 150M, then that means those 83,000 coal jobs accounted for...ben_
- just a hair over .06% of the workforce. So while I have empathy, you're making a lot out of a statistically insignificant number.ben_
- But you got me curious - and 83,000 is 0.0012% of the entire planet's 7B people.
Hope this helps give you some perspective.ben_ - Wyoming being the top state for coal mining is about 590,000. with an avg of 2.5 per household. You're talking about affecting 34% of its inhabitantsomg
- You, like Obama saw this as a minuscule issue of .0012% and killed off an entire group of hardworking people to put them on welfare.omg
- "killed off an entire group of people"? hmm, no. And why is their only option welfare? I live in a town where 20% of employment left when steel tanked...ben_
- hard times for sure, but people bounce back and life goes on.ben_
- Anyway, my point is that in terms of jobs, Obama contributed more good than bad on a macro level by a huge margin. Of course the people who are affected...ben_
- directly would see it differently, and we should be empathetic, but your assertion that it's some sort of genocide without any hope is a bit much...ben_
- Time will tell the effect that Trump's tax "reform" and blowhard promises to the working class will have (my money is on negative)...ben_
- but so far it seems a lot like his empathy is with people who are in the same tax bracket as he claims to be.ben_
- There wasn't any need to decimate these 83,000 jobs. Obama thought welfare and useless re-training programs was the solution.omg
- ...and for what purpose? Obama is known as the nation's 'Great Destroyer'omg
- ^ lol ok / yawngarbage
- I'd argue further, but posting this would be easier. https://e360.yale.ed…ben_
- irreversible coal jobs lost would still be blamed on Obama. Yet it begs to questions, why did Obama terminate those jobs unnecessarily?omg
- Obama terminated those jobs? Seems like the coal industry had quite a few options yet never innovated and is still on a decline. Natural gas, nuclear, etc.ben_
- You seem to think in order for one to succeed, another must fail. In addition, people can still work, even if a company is experiencing a decline.omg
- You can double those unemployment numbers and those affected by adding in the Tanning Tax. Folks who commuted suicide thanks to Obama.omg
- Here you go again conflating anecdotes with epidemic.ben_
- Better than being an Obama apologist pretending he was scandal free...omg
- If you say so.ben_
- I know it's just .028% to you, but the US is working on bringing jobs back there. I'm not sure why you think those policies are going to make things worse...omg
- Those jobs are never coming back, and you are either a fucking moron or arguing in bad faith.garbage
- There are many great uses for coal and can be used in combination with solar. Perhaps it could be a great element to use when building the wall.omg
- You can't build a 2000 mile US-Mexico border wall with natural gas.omg
- Little too on the nose there, nobody is buying your bit.garbage
- lol, what does that even mean, my bit?omg
- your act, your schtick, the fact that you are unbelievably stupid, to the point of literal disbelief at your idiocymonospaced
- you sound like such a trump supporting retard, people can't believe it could be anything but a character ... I know better though, you're really an assholemonospaced
- ... even worse, you're a troll, and it's not even intentional. You simply can't help yourself, spewing the bigotry, hate and fear dailymonospaced