Trump reconsiders rules protecting miners from black lung

[blondebanshee]

Trump will ensure anything good that stands in the way of profit will be removed. Pure evil


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/trump-reconsiders-rules-protecting-miners-black-lung-51814748

[PJMcK]

1. But he's going to bring back coal jobs! (n/t)

[Initech]

2. Clean coal, dirty lungs. Got it.

[RVInit]

3. Using coal miner lungs as a filter - clean coal!!!

[populistdriven]

31. welcome to DU!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He claims he's bringing back coal mining jobs.

But there's a catch...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. For each miner who gets black lung and dies, a new job opens up.

#MAGA = Miners Are Getting Annihilated

[RVInit]

25. TwoFer - Jobs and Clean Coal /s

[MiniMe]

5. My grandfather died from black lung

He was the foreman of a coal mine, and was the one who walked in with a canary to see if it was safe. If the canary died, not safe.

[RVInit]

28. I am very sorry

That had to be a terrible way to pass away. I hope my post (#3) did not offend you, if so, I do apologize. It is not a joking matter, and I probably should have considered such a thing before making a snarky remark like this.

[MiniMe]

30. Thanks, but didn't take it that way

He died in 1969, so it was a long time ago.

[Drahthaardogs]

33. As did mine. He went in at 13 years old when his father was

Paralyzed in a cave in, and came out 43 years later.

[Irish_Dem]

7. If there is a Hell, he is going directly there. nt

[struggle4progress]

8. Hazel Dickens

[struggle4progress]

9. Black lung blues

[struggle4progress]

10. Radio Nationals

[babydollhead]

13. Thank you for these! n/t

[struggle4progress]

11. Nimrod Workman

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Lol.... enjoy tour b.l. rubes ...maga

[Xolodno]

14. Guess coal miners will get their old jobs back....

...but it will also kill you before you hit 55.

Learn a different job skill, live to 80 or more...fuck that! I don't have to go through the pain of changing professions! And just deal with the pain of Black Lung....and die knowing my male offspring will also die of Black Lung. What could be better than that!

[struggle4progress]

15. Joe Bonamassa

[struggle4progress]

16. Shirley Stewart Burns

[Tavarious Jackson]

17. It's already happening

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coal-mine-deaths-surge-putting-feds-and-miners-at-odds/

[struggle4progress]

18. Mike Harding

[Thrill]

19. Keep voting for those Republicans Kentucky, WV, etc..

Just keep on

[struggle4progress]

20. Jack Shaw

[struggle4progress]

21. Carolina Still

[struggle4progress]

22. Townes Van Zandt

[struggle4progress]

23. Dig the devil's blood

[nolabear]

29. These are amazing. Thank you.

[FSogol]

24. Ventilation and safety are for snowflakes, right coal country? MAGA!

[47of74]

26. Yeah, pretty much.

I'm almost at the point where I figure coal miners who voted for this son of a bitch are getting what they deserve. Almost.

And the orange fart cloud doesn't really give a shit about them;

This latest policy undermines Trump's longstanding claim to be an ally of coal miners, which he bragged about when he pulled out of the Paris climate accord. "I happen to love the coal miners," Trump proclaimed at the time.

Trump may have let his true feelings about coal miners be known during a Playboy interview in 1990, however.

"The coal miner gets black-lung disease, his son gets it, then his son," Trump told Playboy. "If I had been the son of a coal miner, I would have left the damn mines. But most people don’t have the imagination — or whatever — to leave their mine. They don’t have 'it.'"

[physioex]

27. Who cares....

Let em eat cake!

[Rhiannon12866]

32. Every time you think he can't possibly get any worse...