justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/22/20 at 11:49:31:That it is even your hearts desire is a good thing.. If you simply dont have the ways and means to make it reality,, so be it.. YOur responsibilities to family come first,
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I however see both sides of the political spectrum shafting these people over and over and over. Coal is evil, coal is toxic coal miners are terrible, and they're warming the planet and drowning us in the oceans with seal level rise says AOC and the whole left while buying island mansions facing the ocean.
The Right says cola is the best, coal is our future, and the left has shafted these people and they give major tax breaks and hand outs to the CEO's and owners of coal companies hoping it will "trickle down".
Sadly - both sides are completely wrong.
No one needs to work in coal when they're putting life and limb @ risk when the big $$$ goes to the top. They can work sitting at home in software if we were to kick out the few million useless H1's and other crap.
In fact Trump administration has cut funding to a big training program in Appalachia designed to do what I was saying I want to do earlier. Apparently they were going to privatize it. Or something. Effectively its been 86'ed - with some hypothetical replacement pie in the sky.
In the last 2 months 2 more of my wife's friends have died one from an OD and another from a drunk driving accident. I met both of them 10 yrs ago. China virus has hit them hard, mining handouts haven't benefitted them, mining vilification hit them - basically they're 3 presidents + deep in unfair treatment. If not 4 or 5. Bush 1 was the fool that started the H1 crap BRW in the depth of the 1991 recession. I cant decide which side is worse here.
Cool.
Srinath.