Coal jobs down in Kentucky

[John Gruff]

Donald Trump promised a resurgence in coal jobs, but Kentucky saw a drop of 4.8% in the second quarter this year compared to the same period in 2017.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article216363175.html

[Grammy23]

1. No offense to the poor saps in Ky., but they got punked

by tRump. He told them what they wanted to hear, what they needed to hear. And never asked how it was all going to happen. Just trusted him. Bad mistake. No one should ever listen or believe tRump. He is a liar and will say whatever it takes to make you trust him. He has no pity, no compassion and no love for them. He got their vote, their devotion and their cheers. That was all he wanted. And they got nothing in return but a stupid red hat....that THEY had to buy. Punked.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Coal is dead...

or at least dying. And even if they do open more mines (which seems highly unlikely) they will be heavily automated and hire far less people than they did 30 years ago.

Sorry, but there isn't that much market for a 19th Century fuel source any more. The market for it is certainly not expanding.

[Initech]

5. But there's plenty of clean coal jobs available!

[NCjack]

3. That 4.8% who got squeezed out of the coal jobs market, they will

vote Republican for the rest of their lives. (... the emails, the emails, ...)

Ignorance. You can bus them to school, but you can't make them learn.

[sandensea]

7. Plus, they're convince they lst their jobs due to "Obummer's coal-killin' rules!"

That advanced nation in the world, even China, has been moving away from the stuff, escapes them completely.

[ProudLib72]

4. It'll pick up, wayyyyyy up, starting around Thanksgiving

Just what do you think all the Rs are getting for Xmas?

[Permanut]

6. It's all Hillary's fault..

Those jobs would still be there, and a lot more, too, if it hadn't been for Hillary's uranium sales out of the pizza parlor.

[Mopar151]

8. Truth too much to bear.

Solar, wind have come down so much in ¢¢¢ that coal has lost any price advantage. New nukes are being cancelled. Big Coal deserves to die. Coal country is in tough shape, no doubt, but what would an effective remediation/economic reset be?

[Cha]

9. KICK!