re: #116 Timothy Watson

Who remembers Ronald Reagan’s “War on Coal”? Or H.W.’s?

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It was an industry on the decline when my Grandpa left Pennsylvania in the 50’s. West Virginia was on the decline long before Obama came around. I hate to bring race into it but if this wasn’t an industry primarily in rural, white America, conservatives would have been telling those people to get the hell over it. I mean it’s not that I don’t feel bad, I do but at the same time I do think they should have realized the decline of the domestic coal industry was a long time coming.