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Scrivener7

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7. In the film, the guy says he interviewed a mine manager. The manager said he can't find

Reply to sir pball (Reply #6)

Tue Jul 18, 2023, 08:26 AM

Jul 2023

kids to work 50K to 80K jobs, even if they don't require a college education and offer training. This film was posted yesterday and a poster quoted a former WV resident as saying that anyone with get up and go has got up and gone.

And don't miss the guy's statement: "If you start bringing windmills or gays in here, everyone'll be out of a job."

The blindness to anything but coal for industry is real, but it's also steeped in other blindnesses.

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Has Joe Manchin ever attempted to help the impoverished areas of [View all] diehardblue Jul 2023 OP

It's coal or bust for Dirty Joe. nt 617Blue Jul 2023 #1

If they can drag their sorry butts to mines, it's all good. marble falls Jul 2023 #2

They vote for him because he's "good for coal." So why would he? Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #3

+1 betsuni Jul 2023 #4

At about 30 minutes, the guy explains it: "Trump for the coal and Justice for the coal. Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #5

I think he said windmills and gas. I took it to mean natural gas replacing coal. Midnight Writer Jul 2023 #11

Lol! Could be! Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #12

Came here to say this, they don't WANT new industries to revitalize the area. sir pball Jul 2023 #6

In the film, the guy says he interviewed a mine manager. The manager said he can't find Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #7

He's totally in it for the money, nothing else. n.t. lark Jul 2023 #8

Broadband JustAnotherGen Jul 2023 #9

Fascinating video, amazing how young some of them were and they already seem, at only 18 to 23, Celerity Jul 2023 #10

Sure. No good reason to imagine he's some kind of tRump scum Hortensis Jul 2023 #13