get ready for new home prices to go up.
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Grandpapy
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If we can just get them to sell us some ore.
ttystikk
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We have plenty of raw materials here. Put those coal miners to work mining steel, chromium, vanadium, all of which are already here, still in the ground, the mines already built but shuttered.
Justin-case
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That's why I voted for him.
You're a shitty liar,too.
Grandpapy
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My good friend,
https://www.revealnews.org/article/foreign-owned-mines-operate-royalty-free-under-outdated-us-law/
We have all that true, "we" just don't have the pink slip.
SneekyNinja
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Why not just let shitty countries destroy their local environment so they can sell us cheap materials and we get to keep this country pristine?
Coal miners need to upskill and get a different job, they're in a dying industry and need to face facts.
UncleBuck
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there are already twice as many people here employed by solar than coal.
coal country was actually starting to diversify under obama. if they try to return to coal, they are dooming themselves. electric companies are depending less and less on it, and they are the buyers. it's sad that dementia prez is giving them false hope. and taking away their healthcare.
meanwhile, we have lost more jobs in retail than exist in the coal industry, and not a word from prez dementia.
but then again, retail jobs are 40% black, hispanic, and asian, and heavily female. and coal mining is almost 100% white male. so we can see why our racist, sexist dementia prez is doing and saying what he is doing and saying.
coal country was actually starting to diversify under obama. if they try to return to coal, they are dooming themselves. electric companies are depending less and less on it, and they are the buyers. it's sad that dementia prez is giving them false hope. and taking away their healthcare.
meanwhile, we have lost more jobs in retail than exist in the coal industry, and not a word from prez dementia.
but then again, retail jobs are 40% black, hispanic, and asian, and heavily female. and coal mining is almost 100% white male. so we can see why our racist, sexist dementia prez is doing and saying what he is doing and saying.
Grandpapy
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Coal Miners need education, just ask the Pharma Industry.
ttystikk
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I don't want anyone's environmental destruction on my conscience, thanks.
Agreed about coal mining.
ttystikk
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Agreed, agreed and agreed some more.
ttystikk
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LOL that's just mean!
SneekyNinja
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If theyre gonna destroy it anyway (and they are...) we may aswell benefit from it and not wreck our own country at the same time.
ttystikk
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Binary thinking. You can't imagine any mutually beneficial alternatives? Economic development need not be a zero sum game.
Grandpapy
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you better hurry they are wise to us.
83% of mining profits accrued to foreigners in 2009-10. Looking at the three largest 'Australian' miners, foreign ownership accounts for three-quarters of BHP-Billiton, over 80% of Rio Tinto and 100% of Xstrata. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/foreign-investment-lets-talk-about-mining-not-agriculture
ttystikk
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LOL goddamn we Americans are stupid and short-sighted!
budman111
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Is this you just working out a politician?
Big_Lou
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It is..I think of him everyday.
ttystikk
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No, I'm describing the Chump's motives. What does this even mean, exactly?