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Coal Miners Union In Full Revolt After Supporting Obama In 2008
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:20 pm
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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 where 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.
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Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:20 pm to wickowick
Reap what you sow? 
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:21 pm to idlewatcher
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:21 pm to wickowick
Elections, consequences, etc, etc.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:23 pm to wickowick
It's their own fricking fault.
Unlike everything else, Obama did not lie about his plans for coal. He was VERY specific about it and was very clear.
Unlike everything else, Obama did not lie about his plans for coal. He was VERY specific about it and was very clear.
This post was edited on 8/4/14 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:24 pm to wickowick
This is why you actually have to listen to each candidate's ideas and not just blindly vote based on party affiliation.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:25 pm to idlewatcher
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Reap what you sow?
Yeah you can't fix stupid.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:26 pm to wickowick
a bunch of thugs, screw em
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:26 pm to wickowick
Well, they can't exactly get mad at natural gas they they ought to, can they?
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:26 pm to udtiger
quote:he said he would make natural gas cheap?
He was VERY specific about it and was very clear.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:27 pm to Tigah in the ATL
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he said he would make natural gas cheap?
Wow...
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:28 pm to Chimlim
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This is why you actually have to listen to each candidate's ideas and not just blindly vote based on party affiliation.
The truth is here! You should post this on every thread on every forum EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:29 pm to Tigah in the ATL
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he said he would make natural gas cheap?
No, he said this:
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"If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them," Obama said of his cap-and-trade plan. "Under my plan . . . electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:29 pm to Chimlim
We hear the left on this board all the time talk about. Obama isn't doing ___________ what laws has he passed, besides Obamacare. With that being said, what new paws were passed that changed coal since 2009? Change is not happening through Congress, it is happening through federal agencies and through regulation...
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:35 pm to Tigah in the ATL
The Washington Times - Thursday, March 29, 2012
“If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
-Candidate Barack Obama, 2008.
Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned. This week, the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency released a set of proposed rules designed to target greenhouse gas emissions. If enacted, these rules would virtually destroy the coal industry - just as President Obama once promised he would do.
here you go dumbass
“If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
-Candidate Barack Obama, 2008.
Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned. This week, the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency released a set of proposed rules designed to target greenhouse gas emissions. If enacted, these rules would virtually destroy the coal industry - just as President Obama once promised he would do.
here you go dumbass
Posted on 8/4/14 at 1:37 pm to wickowick
Unions breed mediocrity. Apparently stupidity as well.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 2:00 pm to wickowick
Why were they arrested? Since when is protesting cause for arrest? I don't see people protesting for liberal causes getting arrested like occupy Wall Street protesters
Posted on 8/4/14 at 2:01 pm to wickowick
Posted on 8/4/14 at 2:05 pm to udtiger
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It's their own fricking fault.
Unlike everything else, Obama did not lie about his plans for coal. He was VERY specific about it and was very clear.
This is a pretty clear example of how blind devotion to the AFL-CIO rather than devotion to the represented industry backfires. See Keystone pipeline for reference as well.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 2:06 pm to upgrayedd
Well the Mean GOP won't line those unions leaders pockets for their votes. Looks like this Union didnt realize that they were being lied to by their Reps.
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