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Here’s a novelty: Hillary Clinton told the truth. Oops!

“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” Clinton said Sunday night while boasting about her clean energy program — and with a big smile on her face.

In fact, this is standard Democratic policy: President Obama’s been throwing coal miners out of work for seven years now, aiming to deliver on his 2008 pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry.

But most Dems have the sense to pretend they’re just protecting the environment — and bashing business, ’natch.

Fine, Clinton quickly followed with a vow to dole out $30 billion for job retraining and to cover early-retirement costs for the workers she’ll get fired.

But retrain for what? Name a single working-class industry that the modern Democratic Party actually favors. (And, no, “green jobs” don’t count: They exist almost exclusively in liberal rhetoric.)

In fact, if Clinton keeps up with the honesty, she’ll tell the voters of other industries she means to destroy — oil, for sure, and probably natural gas, too. (Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s already led the way there with his ban on fracking.) And, hey, aren’t those evil Koch brothers big in (ick!) manufacturing?

No, coal’s not the perfect fuel — nothing is. But the industry has invested billions in getting cleaner — only to find Democrats (or their green masters) always raising the bar.

OK, Democrats have already lost the coal vote. When Obama took office, coal-producing US House districts were evenly split. Now they’re 90 percent Republican.

To see how shameful the Democrats’ betrayal is, look to history: The coal miners’ union, the United Mine Workers of America, has one of the nation’s proudest records on race. Its founding constitution of 1890 barred discrimination based on race, religion or national origin.

By 1900, some 20,000 black miners made the union about 20 percent African-American. And the UMWA stuck by those ideals all the way up to fighting to end apartheid.

Political commentary this year is full of sneers about what ignorant bigots working-class voters are. We’d suggest the biggest ignorance lies in the commentariat.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/14/h...democratic-betrayal/

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direstraits posted:

Besides destroying a relatively cheap method of producing electricity, do any of these Democrats realize that killing coal will kill the steel industry in the US -- kill it dead! 

Its like those idiot greenies that wanted to pave roads without pumping oil -- where do you get the asphalt -- from unicorn merde?

I understand there is theory that yellow brick can be used for the roads.

Steel and iron can't be made without coked coal from metallurgical grade coal.  BTW, coked coal is one of the most pollution free. 

Sources of asphalt are tar pits (like La Brea), a mineral called bitumen found in Alberta and as one of the 15 or so products from refining oil.  Oil refining is the most used source. 

China has attempted to hoard rare earth elements (REE) in their own nation, limit export from Mongolia and buy mineral rights from third world nations.  Without REE, all of the high tech electronics can't exist. REE really aren't so rare, we have plenty in the US -- mostly on Bureau of Land Management controlled land.  Good luck obtaining that.

Article excerpt:

"

Lesley Stahl: And this little tiny thing is the speaker.

Ed Richardson: Right. This is how devices have gotten small, very powerful, because the magnets are so powerful, you don't have to use much of it.

The U.S. developed this technology, but China bought most of it right out from under us. For instance, in 1995, China bought the biggest American rare earth magnet company, "Magnequench" which was based in Indiana.

Ed Richardson: When they bought the factory, they now had the patents. They now had the equipment. And they actually had some of the Magnequench employees in the United States go to China and teach the people how to make the products.

Lesley Stahl: Did we not understand the strategic importance of keeping that industry here?

Ed Richardson: We didn't get it and unfortunately the technology was transferred to China before that technology was appreciated. And now, we're seeing so many, for instance, defense systems that are dependent on it."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ra...inutes-lesley-stahl/

Magnequench was sold to the Chinese in 1995 -- Bill Clinton's administration.  The article states we didn't understand the strategic importance of this technology.  DoD and the CIA have analysts looking after strategic materials -- their sources and supplies the US requires. 

From rocket tech to REE tech, the Clintons sold out the US.  What they received in payment I would really like to know. 

 

direstraits posted:

Article excerpt:

"

Lesley Stahl: And this little tiny thing is the speaker.

Ed Richardson: Right. This is how devices have gotten small, very powerful, because the magnets are so powerful, you don't have to use much of it.

The U.S. developed this technology, but China bought most of it right out from under us. For instance, in 1995, China bought the biggest American rare earth magnet company, "Magnequench" which was based in Indiana.

Ed Richardson: When they bought the factory, they now had the patents. They now had the equipment. And they actually had some of the Magnequench employees in the United States go to China and teach the people how to make the products.

Lesley Stahl: Did we not understand the strategic importance of keeping that industry here?

Ed Richardson: We didn't get it and unfortunately the technology was transferred to China before that technology was appreciated. And now, we're seeing so many, for instance, defense systems that are dependent on it."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ra...inutes-lesley-stahl/

Magnequench was sold to the Chinese in 1995 -- Bill Clinton's administration.  The article states we didn't understand the strategic importance of this technology.  DoD and the CIA have analysts looking after strategic materials -- their sources and supplies the US requires. 

From rocket tech to REE tech, the Clintons sold out the US.  What they received in payment I would really like to know. 

 

Obviously the Clinton's are interchangeable:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04...uranium-company.html

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