Miners Say Obama’s War on Energy Will Cost 485,000 Jobs
Labor unions criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations on carbon emissions from power plants on Monday, highlighting growing tensions between the environmentalist and working class arms of the Democratic Party.
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) president Cecil Roberts blasted the proposal, saying it would leave tens of thousands of the union’s members unemployed.
“The proposed rule … will lead to long-term and irreversible job losses for thousands of coal miners, electrical workers, utility workers, boilermakers, railroad workers and others without achieving any significant reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions,” Roberts said in a statement.
According to a UMWA analysis, Roberts said, the rule will cause 75,000 job losses in the coal sector by 2020, rising to 152,000 by 2035.
“When a U.S. government economic multiplier used to calculate the impact of job losses is applied to the entire economy, we estimate that the total impact will be about 485,000 permanent jobs lost,” Roberts said.
The left has gone from treating miners like heroes to turning them into enemies of the state. The wealthy special interests of Big Green have made billions from Obama Inc. and they won’t stop until they destroy what’s left of the working class they hate.
“It’s clear the administration needs to grow a set of antlers, or perhaps take a lesson from Popeye and eat some spinach,” the president of the Laborers International Union of North America said at the time.
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Obama/Joe Biden "No Coal Plants Here in America"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ55UzAsp6M
"No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they're gonna build them, over there." Joe Biden
Liberal billionaire b*stard Tom Steyer has made a fortune off financing coal projects "over there." Bribe Democrats to help bankrupt American industry then get rich off financing new industries abroad.
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