re: #81 NO SMOCKING GUN!

And what “works” there? These are communities in deep poverty, dependent on disability checks and food stamps, with crumbling schools, high levels of drug addiction, and nostalgia for a coal industry which is gone forever.

It is also their near-religious belief that if we simply eliminate pesky government environmental, health and safety regulations, coal will suddenly become more competitive and those lost jobs will miraculously return…offering high pay and benefits but without the need of labor unions to secure them.