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Clinton: ‘We’re Going to Put a Lot of Coal Miners and Coal Companies Out of Business’ |
2016-03-15 |
[FREEBEACON] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillaryand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles... said that her policies would "put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business" during Sunday night’s Ohio town hall on CNN. Clinton was asked by TVOne’s Roland Martin about her Democratic primary success in states that tend to vote Republican in general elections, and he wondered how she could carry such states once matched up with a Republican rather than a far-left candidate like Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... (I., Vt.). Clinton has struggled against Sanders in states that voted for Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... in 2012, losing such contests as Michigan, New Hampshire, Colorado, Minnesota and Maine. "I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country, because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right, Tim? and we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people," Clinton said. "Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on." Clinton went on to say she had put forward specific plans on how to incentivize more jobs and invest more in poorer communities. Some additional Obama regime unfinished business. It won't take long, there can't be many remaining. |
Posted by:Fred |
#10 No empathy with the little people. |
Posted by: 3dc 2016-03-15 17:28 |
#9 Obama made a big down payment on fulfilling the promise, on all hydrocarbon related industries. |
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-15 14:22 |
#8 I thought Obama promised that 8 years ago?.... Another promise broken I guess. Is anyone still counting? |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-03-15 13:56 |
#7 The pain spreads, too. Eastern railroads are laying off workers and closing facilities as the coal traffic falls off. So there's less money to be spent at Burger King and Walmart, housing prices decline, etc. It's the Detroit-ification of the region. |
Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-15 13:46 |
#6 It's interesting to me that most people don't know that coal is used for much more than burning. Coal gasification plants provide raw materials for a wide variety of products from plastics to pharmaceuticals to even acetic acid (vinegar). I was one of those who did not know that, Deacon Blues. Now I do. Rantburg U rules! :-) |
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-15 12:53 |
#5 Everybody wants to know how Trump is gonna build that wall. I wanna know how the Beest is gonna bring clean energy to West Virginia. Details please! |
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-15 12:18 |
#4 And half of them, having been told straight up that is what's going to happen, will vote for her anyway... The coal states have gone Republican since 2008. They know who took away their jobs and why, and the poor folk on welfare who might have continued voting Democratic don't bother to vote. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-15 10:17 |
#3 her policies would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” There's a sure vote-getting message. But as M. Murcek said, they will probably vote for her anyway (multiple times). |
Posted by: JohnQC 2016-03-15 09:30 |
#2 It's interesting to me that most people don't know that coal is used for much more than burning. Coal gasification plants provide raw materials for a wide variety of products from plastics to pharmaceuticals to even acetic acid (vinegar). Panderella here needs to get educated but that's not gonna happen. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2016-03-15 08:45 |
#1 And half of them, having been told straight up that is what's going to happen, will vote for her anyway... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-03-15 08:38 |