It would be nice then if you stopped referring to my comments as "hateful." I read that as an attempt to shame or silence me; and I actually see your saying that a little hateful. It's also an ineffective techique if your goal is to convince someone of something. You can't expect anyone you accuse of being hateful to entertain seriously the other stuff you have to say. That's one of Trump's problems, and it seems to be one of yours as well. I brush it off when you say my comments are hateful.
He amusese me more than anything. He thinks he's so clever, I have to be amused. I see tragedy though. I see it in the farmers who are worried whethey they can sell their crops. I see it in the dairies that have gone bankrupt. I see it in the coal miners who voted for him believing he could bring back jobs in coal. My heart goes out to the people in West Virginia. Jobs in other fields need to be created in West Virginia so that as jobs in coal decline, people won't be suffering as much.
Feb 2019
Coal Comeback? Coal At New Low After Two Years Under Trump
It’s been two years since President Donald Trump took office and began rolling back environmental regulations on the coal industry.
At a November rally in Huntington, West Virginia, the president took credit for a coal comeback in front of a cheering crowd.
“We’ve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal and we’re putting our coal miners back to work,” he said. “That you know better than anybody.”
But federal data about the industry tell a different story.
Mine operators and independent contractors are required to report regular employment information to the Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA. Preliminary figures for 2018 show 80,778 people were employed by mine operators and contractors. That’s a record low, and about a thousand fewer than were employed by coal in the last year of the Obama administration.
Nationwide, coal plant retirements neared a record high, and overall coal production dropped to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a non-partisan government agency that tracks energy trends.
In the Ohio Valley, things looked much the same. In 2018 two prominent Ohio Valley utilities announced a spate of coal power plant closures, federal data show the region lost 150 industry jobs, and Westmoreland Coal, which has a substantial presence in Ohio, declared bankruptcy.
I can laugh at his false promises; but it is sad when he lets down people who voted for him believing him. He may not have to worry about West Virginia since it's so solidly Republican. Losing votes over coal mining there won't matter to him; but it may matter in places in Ohio. Trump won there by over 8%. Biden now has a narrow lead. That loss is support is coming from people he let down, people who believed him once but don't anymore. His lies and false promises have wound up hurting him. Still, people can learn from their mistakes; and I think lots of people who voted for him in 2016 now feel betrayed by a con artist. The lesson is not to believe something a policitian says because you'd like it to be true. What is that politician's track record?
