This race is getting too damned close.

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33. Where are all these jobs?

Why is unemployment skyrocketing in the areas being decimated by the loss of the coal industry?

Certainly if all these great jobs were in the same place then all the of these people who lost their coal gig would just take those jobs, right?

Employment should be 0% and the wages for all these jobs should be exploding, right?

Or should these people just be able to relocate their families to where ever these great jobs are, hell it it easy to just pick up and move. Right, is not that what republicans say about those living in Detroit .. just move. Pack up your stuff in your new car, sell your house and cash out the half million in equity, and move to wherever these jobs are. Except you can not sell your house for more than 5K 'cause who the hell is moving to coal country? And all these jobs you are talking about do not exist in the real world, and they pay shit.

After all, once a windmill is built how many jobs does it support?

Where are they? I know a bunch of people here in Houston that have lost their oil field job that paid 150K/year who would love to know where all these kick ass high paying jobs are. Perhaps a link to them?

I sure do not see them ... hell, I am in the oil patch, I'd love to switch to a high paying green job. Except they do not exist.