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pbrower2a
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« on: February 18, 2018, 03:36:15 AM »

Coal is becoming less economical to use even without environmental concerns, and coal-burning power plants are getting increasingly costly to operate. I just heard that a coal-burning power plant in Lansing, Michigan is being retired as uneconomical to operate. Michigan is not a 'coal' state.   

Market forces direct most economic choices, and politicians who seek to circumvent those for political reasons need to contemplate the consequences of  abandoning the market mechanism. The desire to win certain voters in an upcoming election or get campaign funds is inadequate.

Humanitarian considerations are the sole grounds for rejecting the working of a free market. 
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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2018, 02:24:51 PM »

Vote for a con man and you get conned. Learn before you vote next time, West Virginia.

This autumn I saw a disapproval of only 48% for the President in West Virginia. He can sing the hymn in church, only to act very different from the lesson offered in the sermon.

He may have suggested that if he became President he would do wonders for coal miners by doing wonders for mine owners. I think he cares as much about minders as he cares about stray cats -- nothing at all. I see a pattern in which the people who best know Donald Trump despise him, and that Americans are beginning to know him all too well. It's telling that his approval ratings have been consistently awful in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, where he is known best for his personality. Ordinarily politicians fit the political culture of their home 'bases', but the more that a community resembles New York City, the more they dislike him. They know him as the landlord capable only of squeezing more rent out of them.

In the more rural parts of America he is beginning to sound like the obnoxious d@mnyankee city-slicker that he is. Maybe  the word "Yankee" vanishes in such undeniably-Yankee states as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa -- but you get the idea.     
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2018, 04:23:46 PM »

I don't know what will be available  in the end -- reliance upon recreation?  Put up some dams, and get some wonderful recreation areas.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2018, 11:34:22 PM »



Future generations will continue to flee the state.

Same for Eastern Kentucky. Decades, centuries of brain drain and what you're left with is a culture that rejects prosperity and education.

Outside o f mining, the biggest success story in that part o f Appalachia is Harlan Sanders.
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