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CrabCake
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« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2016, 02:03:10 PM » |
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It is a poor electoral decision for the coal companies to endorse union-killing though. They're effectively ended bipartisan support for coal by trashing the pro-coal pro-union Democrats = and once you lose bipartisan support, your business model is in jeopardy. The reason why coal was such a powerful force is that the unions had transformed its model into a dignified source of reliable income for the rural poor. Now the coal companies, through their greed, have killed off that reliable constituency in favour of underpaid seasonal workers they have no political cover; and the chickens are coming home to roost. Literally every single coal comapny in the US is either bankrupt or heading that way.
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