.@realDonaldTrump holds all positions on minimum wage: abolish it entirely, no hike, and open to moderate increase. Pathetic.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 6, 2016

Pandering to West Virginia coal miners - we’ll bring back your jobs.

No. You wont. And you can’t bring back coal mining any more than you can bring back the whale oil industry.

Business and industry and energy providers see what pricing can do, and what’s more efficient and cheaper to obtain. That’s natural gas. It’s also cleaner burning, more efficient, and doesn’t require as much to knock down its emissions. It’s also easier to build small natural gas power facilities to meet local demand than to build a coal powered plant, which has to be bigger to include where they store the coal as it comes in. And coal plants aren’t as quick to turn on/off to meet demand.

All of that favors coal being phased out.

It sucks for those states and communities that are entirely based on coal industry, but it isn’t coming back. There are no good alternatives for the people living there.

It’s easy to say move, but these are folks who don’t have the means to move. Jobs aren’t going to come to them either. It isn’t like Pittsburgh, which saw the decline of the steel industry, but managed to remake itself as a tech and medical hub, but it could be a satellite to Pittsburgh (it’s only 2+ hours from Morgantown to Pittsburgh for instance).