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Coalmining employed 98,505 people in 2015, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, down from 127,745 in 2008, the year Obama was elected president, and about 250,000 in the 1970s. Trump has consistently pledged to restore mining jobs, but many of those jobs were lost to technology rather than regulation and to competition from natural gas and renewables, which makes it unlikely that he can do much to significantly grow the number of jobs in the industry, said Murray.

“I suggested that he temper his expectations. Those are my exact words,” said Murray. “He can’t bring them back.”

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The CPP was designed to cut the power sector’s carbon emissions by 32% by 2030, and Trump may move as soon as this week to overturn it. Murray blames it for shuttering coal-fired power plants and freezing new constructions during the Obama presidency. Repeal would be a major victory for Murray Energy, which filed a lawsuit against the CPP in 2015 that is now backed by more than two dozen states.

Murray, who met with Trump last month, also expects the president to end the classification of carbon dioxide as a pollutant in the US, a classification brought in under the Obama administration. “We do not have a climate change or global warming problem, we have an energy cost problem,” Murray told the Guardian.

Victory!

03-28-2017 , 01:00 AM

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OmgGlutten!

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watch how BroadwaySushy pretends to not see what I just posted.

03-28-2017 , 01:32 AM

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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/t...151405767.html

03-28-2017 , 03:03 AM

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A $17 min wage would be better.

**** it. Let's make it $117 so EVERYONE can be upper middle class!

03-28-2017 , 03:40 AM

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03-28-2017 , 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Lestat

**** it. Let's make it $117 so EVERYONE can be upper middle class!

Middle class is a percentile, so everyone obviously can't be it. But we can try with getting everyone out of poverty level by some margin.

03-28-2017 , 04:47 AM

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To paraphrase the great homer simpson, they really are a cuckiest bunch of cucks that ever cucked.

03-28-2017 , 04:54 AM

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Further proving that the administration is full of visionaries, the Treasury Secretary said that the impact of AI on employment is so far in the future that, "it isn't even in his radar screen."

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve...tion-ai-2017-3

03-28-2017 , 05:39 AM

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Breitbart News denied Capitol Hill press credentials

Shame...

03-28-2017 , 07:28 AM

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He's doing it again...

03-28-2017 , 07:37 AM

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50-100 YEARS LOL. I guess he must be factoring in how far Trump is setting us back.

03-28-2017 , 08:08 AM

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So Nunez cancelled all the intelligence committee meetings for the week, for some reason.

03-28-2017 , 08:22 AM

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raheem

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Ever since Monday of last week, things have been CRAZY.

03-28-2017 , 08:31 AM

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Bring back vinyl and ban MP3s would be a net plus for humanity imo.

Yeah, I hate having the ability to listen to anything I want (music, podcasts, the best books ever written) anywhere and at any time I want. Such a pain in the ass.

03-28-2017 , 08:33 AM

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So Nunez cancelled all the intelligence committee meetings for the week, for some reason.

Either the intelligence community or the house or senate committee are on the verge of something really detrimental and close to Trump IMO. It's one of the only explanations for Nunes' behavior the last 8 days. That, or Nunes himself is directly in the line of fire, as was shown on his face during Wednesday's press conference.

03-28-2017 , 08:42 AM

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Democrats are definitely at risk of Benghazing the Russia story to irrelevance.

There is still no clear narrative, and people just dont care. And it's Trump specific.

03-28-2017 , 08:46 AM

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How many god damn mother ****ing secret meetings with Russians is too many ****ing god damn secret meetings with Russians? These penis lickers are really starting to chap my hide.

Don't smear all penis-lickers. Some of them are all right by me.

03-28-2017 , 08:49 AM

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Democrats are definitely at risk of Benghazing the Russia story to irrelevance.

There is still no clear narrative, and people just dont care. And it's Trump specific.

Where is your evidence that people don't care? It's the headline on virtually every news site this week. Trumpkins don't care but so what. They are not savable. They should be wholly ignored from this point forward in terms of politics and policy.

03-28-2017 , 08:54 AM

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Trump keeps telling people to watch fox. At what point does that become illegal? It really is turning into state run media.

03-28-2017 , 08:55 AM

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Democrats are definitely at risk of Benghazing the Russia story to irrelevance.

There is still no clear narrative, and people just dont care. And it's Trump specific.

If the Democrats mired Trump in a completely fake scandal like Benghazi I'd be proud of them for once.

03-28-2017 , 08:59 AM

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Further proving that the administration is full of visionaries, the Treasury Secretary said that the impact of AI on employment is so far in the future that, "it isn't even in his radar screen."

"According to our astrolabes, we are nowhere near such a possibility."

03-28-2017 , 09:02 AM

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Democrats are definitely at risk of Benghazing the Russia story to irrelevance.

There is still no clear narrative, and people just dont care. And it's Trump specific.

Yeah, Republicans have really poisoned the well on this. To a casual observer this just looks like another aimless string of Benghazii hearings that doesn't do a thing to help regular joes. It's very easy for someone who doesn't follow politics to be cynical and just assume this is how politics works now: one side gets the ball and launches investigations on the other side.

03-28-2017 , 09:04 AM

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except that democrats dont have the ball so your argument is invalid

this isn't a non-issue and ive interacted with a lot of people who are deeply concerned with where this russia investigation is headed. there are a lot more lies and ****ery coming from the GOP about this than ever came out of hillary's half truths and word mincing about emails or benghazi.

03-28-2017 , 09:07 AM

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If Democrats don't offer real solutions for working class families they can't expect to just magically win elections on "Donald Trump is awful." Hillary Clinton tried that and now she's hiking in the woods. Democrats need to push for Universal Health Care, right now. Strike while the iron is hot.

03-28-2017 , 09:17 AM

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Democrats need to push for Universal Health Care, right now. Strike while the iron is hot.

I don't really understand what "pushing" for universal health care would look like in a GOP controlled Congress. Introduce futile legislation? Hold press conferences?

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