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Posted: 8/3/2014 5:30:50 AM EDT
It’s unlikely that United Mine Workers of America president Cecil Roberts thought he would be arrested protesting the energy policies of the very politician his union supported in 2008. But things have come full circle for coal miners, who now see President Obama’s climate agenda threatening their livelihoods.
Roberts and other UMWA members were arrested Thursday marching through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, towards the federal building the Environmental Protection Agency was holding field hearings for a new rule that could very well force more coal mines and plants to shut down. Roberts was leading about 5,000 coal miners, their families and supporters to show the EPA that coal miners, boilermakers, electric workers and other unions did not support the Obama administration’s new regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. “This was an expression by the leadership of the union and the solidarity for our members when our jobs are on the line … it’s what it’s all about,” Roberts said while being arrested. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/02/coal-miners-union-in-full-revolt-after-supporting-obama-in-2008/#ixzz39KrbTwon http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/02/coal-miners-union-in-full-revolt-after-supporting-obama-in-2008/ |
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These people are idiots. Obama said well before the election what he wanted to do with coal.
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..... and they will support hillary or any other D turd on the ballot.
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Who ever the Dems nominate they will support them. They will not learn and do not want to.
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I've been reminding them every chance I get on facebook that elections have consequences.
Does anyone think they will change, and support someone other than a democrat in '16? |
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In this AO, the United Mine Workers were advertising on Limbaugh and Hannity.
They obvious went with the enemy of my enemy thing |
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He said he was going to do just this.
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Quoted: You voted for him. View Quote FPNI. I'm glad they have finally seen the light and I welcome them aboard the FightObama Express, but I will believe their outrage is genuine when they refuse to support Joe Manchin and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Any coal miner who supports any Democrat candidate at any level is a complete idiot. |
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The dumb asses listened to the words , but did not look at the actions and history of the person speaking those words!!!
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These people are idiots. Obama said well before the election what he wanted to do with coal. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
These people are idiots. Obama said well before the election what he wanted to do with coal. This. Quoted:
..... and they will support hillary or any other D turd on the ballot. And this. Fucking commie pieces of shit. |
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Back when Clinton was first running for president, the union at the factory where I was working was pushing Clinton heavily. If Bush was re-elected he would approve NAFTA and union jobs would be lost.
Yeah, that worked out for them. |
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Surprised they didn't see these energy policies coming.
Obamas nature prior to the election was clear and obvious to anyone who cared to look. People either didn't look, ignored what they saw, or believed it was all a right wing conspiracy. What part of "Fundamentally transform America" didn't they get? |
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These people are idiots. Obama said well before the election what he wanted to do with coal. View Quote Yep. I was in the Boilermakers union for a while at that time. I saw the writing on the wall but the leaders and the vast majority of the members were still solidly behind the administration. Since then one coal fired power plant has closed and the others are about to. I really want to stop in the union hall some day and ask them how that support of Obama is working out for them. |
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THEY HAVE NOT STUDIED HISTORY.
COMMIES DO NOT LIKE UNIONS AFTER THEY GAIN POWER.........DUH. |
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These people are idiots. Obama said well before the election what he wanted to do with coal. View Quote More properly, they're "useful idiots," since they've come to realize their mistake after being thrown under the bus. At least they're not being sent to mine coal in the arctic ice, I guess. __________________________________________________________________ Cross-platform electronic bound book (original thread). PGP public key. «nolite confidere in principibus, in filiis hominum quibus non est salus» |
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They can sleep in the bed they shit in. I have no sympathy for these dip shits.
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<a href="http://s156.photobucket.com/user/REAPER1911-A1/media/2008-10-14-aflcio.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/REAPER1911-A1/2008-10-14-aflcio.jpg</a> View Quote I don't blame BO. He is and always has been a commie socialist; nothing he has done has surprised me. Idiots like Mike here are to blame. They voted the clown in. All I can say is I hope their lives are miserable enough to understand it is in there best interest to think next time they vote. And Mike, if you are out there somewhere jobless living with your parents, I just want you to know, when I think of BO, my anger is channeled to all the idiots like you who voted for him. FU Mike. |
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Useful idiots.
What kinda moron didn't see this coming? Fuck um. |
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It always brings a little joy to my day to see union scum and welfare slugs writhing under the policies of their el Presidente.
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They endorsed him in 2008 knowing full well his agenda. During the 2012 campaign they didn't endorse the Kenyan, but they called Mittens a waycist.
Reap what you sow mo-fos. |
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The dumb asses listened to the words , but did not look at the actions and history of the person speaking those words!!! View Quote The words even told them of the sodomization they were in for. If that's not the epitome of stupid, I don't know what is. "I want to bankrupt the coal industry" "energy prices will necessarily skyrocket under my plan" |
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They can sleep in the bed they shit in. I have no sympathy for these dip shits. View Quote Every bit this. I remember a worker in my former employer's cafeteria as being smug as shit when HER candidate won in '08. White-guilted, progressive little thing who was certain "change" was now coming. It definitely did for her. Shortly after the subsequent stock market bobble and enforced austerity measures which resulted, she was let go. |
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Quoted: It’s unlikely that United Mine Workers of America president Cecil Roberts thought he would be arrested protesting the energy policies of the very politician his union supported in 2008. But things have come full circle for coal miners, who now see President Obama’s climate agenda threatening their livelihoods. Roberts and other UMWA members were arrested Thursday marching through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, towards the federal building the Environmental Protection Agency was holding field hearings for a new rule that could very well force more coal mines and plants to shut down. Roberts was leading about 5,000 coal miners, their families and supporters to show the EPA that coal miners, boilermakers, electric workers and other unions did not support the Obama administration’s new regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. "This was an expression by the leadership of the union and the solidarity for our members when our jobs are on the line … it’s what it’s all about,” Roberts said while being arrested. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/02/coal-miners-union-in-full-revolt-after-supporting-obama-in-2008/#ixzz39KrbTwon http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/02/coal-miners-union-in-full-revolt-after-supporting-obama-in-2008/ View Quote Fuck 'em Union leadership knew exactly who they were getting in bed with and the union membership follows the orders of their union leadership like lemmings off a cliff. |
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More properly, they're "useful idiots," since they've come to realize their mistake after being thrown under the bus. View Quote That part in bold? I think you're giving them too much credit. They'll continue to support the communists, no questions asked. They lose their jobs? Well, the State will give them food and housing. Don't you dare to question that. And as fulltime wards of the State, they'll fight against anybody who raises the subject of welfare reform. And as is the way of unions, commit terrorist acts and murder. Ignorant fools. |
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It is amazing how Obama was able to cast his spell on people while saying to their face he was going to screw them. Hard lessons for dumbasses and hard times for everyone.
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How come we are the only ones who could see this shit coming...seriously...... I knew from day one the Kenyan was full of shit and could not be trusted and despises the American way ......yet people voted for this guy and now they are surprised
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Quoted: It is amazing how Obama was able to cast his spell on people while saying to their face he was going to screw them. Hard lessons for dumbasses and hard times for everyone. View Quote Nope, just human nature: Some people are so eager to get free stuff they ignore all the possible negative consequences of their decision. Union members voted for Obama on the assumption that his policies would affect everyone but them. |
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Yep. I was in the Boilermakers union for a while at that time. I saw the writing on the wall but the leaders and the vast majority of the members were still solidly behind the administration. Since then one coal fired power plant has closed and the others are about to. I really want to stop in the union hall some day and ask them how that support of Obama is working out for them. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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These people are idiots. Obama said well before the election what he wanted to do with coal. Yep. I was in the Boilermakers union for a while at that time. I saw the writing on the wall but the leaders and the vast majority of the members were still solidly behind the administration. Since then one coal fired power plant has closed and the others are about to. I really want to stop in the union hall some day and ask them how that support of Obama is working out for them. Over a dozen are slated to be closed in NC and VA. There are so many plants be closed that companies are focusing on the work as key bussiness areas. |
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How's white guilt working out for you?
ETA: What's pathetic is all the white guilt for a 1/2 white President.
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In the words of Judge Smails, "The world needs ditch diggers too"
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