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- Last part. 200 dollar pension. This is so sad. No wonder those people are angry.tank02
- Should also check out Frontline's doc on Kentucky's debt crisis.BonSeff
- they need read up about what happened to the north of England when thatcher closed all the coal mines.shapesalad
- Coal miners... its like Flash Designers. The world moves on. Should all the flash designers be protesting for their jobs back?shapesalad
- Tech/industrial advances where infrequent 100's of years ago, and it's been getting quicker and quicker, these days you can't bank on any job/industryshapesalad
- being around in a decade. Problem is Coal mining = whole towns based on that industry. When it goes, the town dies.shapesalad
- The coal mines re-opening is short term thinking. But for the people that live in those places they still need something to do once they close again.PhanLo
- That's called evolution. It's been happening to towns/cities for centuries. My hometown is gorgeous, mill town, but as soon as there was cheaper labor in theformed
- in the south, "poof", it died. People bitch about "bailouts" and "socialism", why should I suffer to help a town that wants to stay in the ice ages?formed