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(45,003 posts)unless they do something about Trump and the GOP.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)CincyDem
(6,363 posts)...S2BU...sux to be you.
I know there were a lot of "red" counties that have a lot of blue in there and we need to ensure we're fighting for their appropriately necessary safety net. At the same time, most of coal country is red on red (with precincts of deep deep red) and they bought into the lie that he was going to bring back jobs. And he has...just this weekend 70 jobs got created at some mine in Ohio. 70 full time jobs. And, as the joke goes, Trump made sure to "alert the media".
Let's see...1,000,000 jobs in coal country AT ITS PEAK...70 new jobs...that's a 0.007 percent chance of getting one of those new jobs. Better to have these miners apply to Harvard, Princeton, or Ohio State...odds of acceptance are higher.
These guys should have thought about this long before today. So...S2BU.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)On the one hand I have pity for these people whose families worked hard to provide a good life for their loved ones. Coal gave food and shelter to many families in these areas. It was the American dream in action. Work hard and you will prevail.
On the other hand, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that coal mining was a deadly job. The right way to help restore the American dream for these people would be green industry jobs. The kind of stuff Hillary was touting. So, I really want to shake the shit out of these people who fell for the Donnie con! The answer was right in front of them. Hillary and fix the ACA was their best chance but they bought the snake oil instead. It is so frustrating. I pity them on one hand, yet want to choke them with the other.
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)if we all just worked a little bit harder and got rid of unions and benefits, we could all become billionaires like Trump. He did it, so can you!
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)The echo chambers known as Faux Noose, The Alex Jones Show and big fat Rush Limpballs amongst many are partially responsible for this, as they spread and spewed nothing but hatred, lies and disinformation about ObamaCares throughout the years. Plus, it didn't help that Pres. Obama was African-American in these folks eyes. We know what that's ALL about.
Now, folks like Shammity who work @ Faux Noose, Limpballs, and Jones have PLENTY of money, and can afford spectacular health care--the very best health care that their million$ can buy.
The folks who live in places like West Virginia, Alabama, Florida etc., and who can only listen to the filthy, rotten, untruthful spew that came out of the anti-ObamaCares echo chambers, uh not so much. To be honest, I've NO compassion for those who STILL hate ObamaCares, & brown man who helped to bring it into existence. SOME will never, ever learn, and oh well
I DO have some compassion in my heart for those who ARE seeing the light, albeit it LATE, who have children, for their children are innocent, but will be forced to suffer the same unhealthy fate as their parents who the GOP and big, fat, mentally-deteriorating tRumputin will have NO problems with throwing OFF their health care, as they sleep WELL at night:
But unfortunately it's too late now, and many who fell for the LIES of the GOP & of tRumputin will be suffering and dying in some instances, as they're part of that 24 million who will lose their health care because of the passage of tRump's & the GOP's Don'tGiveaDamn Care.
I'm HAPPY and blessed to be living here in the great state of California, where we're HOPEFULLY on a path to single-payer THIS time around.
JHan
(10,173 posts)is a massive piece of shit.
Really, people you know stand to suffer because of cuts and his response is "Tough luck" ? ...he's echoing the sort of mean politics which helped Trump get elected. #deplorable
olegramps
(8,200 posts)I have several relatives in the South. They have nothing but hatred for Obama solely because he is African-American. Sorry, but when these hate mongers lose their health safety-net, I have little or no compassion for them. They are so brainwashed by the Republican hate machine that they willingly and consistently vote against their own interest. Its like "Animal Farm." "Two legs bad, four legs good." The combination of hate spewing politicians and media mongers 24/7 have so poisoned their feeble minds that they can't make a rational decision. The country is, for the foreseeable future, hopelessly irreconcilable. In Republicans estimation Trump can do absolutely nothing wrong and anyone who says he did they consider an enemy spreading lies. As he astutely observed he could shoot someone dead in the NY city and not lose a single vote. If anyone thinks that the Republicans will hold he accountable they are delusional. The hate mongers have made the nations moto, "Out of many, one" a joke.
downeastdaniel
(497 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)While YOU were at it you destroyed millions of others health care.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)... I say let em crash.
DK504
(3,847 posts)But they voted healthcare away for everyone.