Coal Miners - Hillary Continues Obama's War On The Working Class

When Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton promised to "put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business" she was echoing the words of candidate Obama back in 2008 when he made a similar campaign promise to 'bankrupt the coal industry and force energy prices to sky rocket'.

The coal mining industry and their close knit communities epitomize the working class so the threats by Obama and Clinton to throw them on the scrapheap is not only a clear demonstration of their cold hearted callousness but it should put paid once and for all the myth that the Democratic Party is the party of the working class.

The political elite of both the Democratic and Republican parties - their equivalent are the Labour and Conservative parties in Great Britain - all use the electioneering slogan 'hard working people' or the more emotive 'hard working families' as if they are the sole custodians of their interests and well-being.

Their actions prove otherwise; the only things they are custodians of are their own self interests, their own well-being along with the interests of their lobbyists, donors and cronies who act on behalf of the UN/EU.

These political parties are no longer the parties that our parents and grandparents supported unreservedly over the years, those are long gone. These parties today have been hijacked by manufactured professionals who's only purpose in life is to impose their UN/EU global agenda on their citizens.

The claim by both Clinton and Obama that so-called 'green jobs' would provide an alternative livelihood was, as informed people knew all along, a false promise they used to sweeten the bitter pill of decay and the ultimate demise of the coal mining communities.

The truth is that there is more money and votes in the green lobby and the new climate change industry than in the coal mining communities therefore they can be sacrificed at no political cost.

The largely forgotten Solyndra scandal is also a testament to the scandal and corruption that surrounds politicians whenever taxpayer funded subsidies are used to finance political promises.

The American taxpayers were left on the hook for $535 million in unpaid loans plus $25 million in tax breaks when the new age green energy company filed for bankruptcy without a single green job being created for redundant coal miners.

It's a sad fact that the Democrats no longer represent the interests of the working class but it's their take over of the labour unions that highlights the biggest betrayal of all. It's become routine for union leaders to double up as active members of the Democrat Party who have surreptitiously changed their priorities from the well-being of the working class to the well-being of the Party and its agenda.

As part of their war on the working class they have stood silently by as American jobs are exported overseas; they have remained silent as the borders have been opened to cheap labour from the third world who not only compete for American jobs but drive down wages.

Most disgustingly of all they have failed to prevent the malevolent and humiliating practise of forcing highly paid IT workers to train their cheaper replacements from overseas by abusing the H1B visa system.

In the wider scheme of things this war on the American working class and their way of life is just one aspect of the Obama/Democratic Party agenda to 'fundamentally transform' America away from its traditional values of hard work and individual liberty under a free enterprise system into a European style socialist system of imposed equality and government dependency funded by punitive levels of taxation.

One instance of the Democratic Party/Labor Union axis putting the interests of the party and its agenda before the interests of the working class and their communities was/is the leader of the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA), Mike Caputo, who in 2008 was also a Democratic Party representative in the West Virginia House of Delegates.

He recommended his UMWA members vote for candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election despite the fact that Obama had declared a war on coal miners by promising to bankrupt their industry, throw them onto the scrapheap and destroy their communities.

The question of whether Caputo put the interests of the Democratic Party agenda before those of his membership were answered unequivocally during Obama's re-election campaign.

Despite Obama's war on the coal industry and the destruction of the livelihoods of his UMWA members, Caputo cynically waited until late in the campaign to recommend they abstain; this late recommendation prevented any opposition being mounted in the coal mining communities against Obama's re-election.

To compound the sell-out of his membership he followed up this treachery with a statement that should live in infamy in the annals of labor folklore.

After advising his members to abstain he declared that:

"I am a hardcore Democrat, I intend to vote for Obama. I am loyal to my party".

There is no further proof required since it doesn't get any more unequivocal than that.

In conclusion I would add that as sure as death and taxes the labor unions have been taken over by the Democratic party therefore their leadership has committed themselves to continuing the Obama/Clinton war on the American working class which is better known today as the fundamental transformation of America.

Ouch! An interesting view on the UMWA and coal miners here

Obama Kills The Coal Industry - Mining Communities Self Destruct And Get No Sympathy

A motley association of eco-warriors, hippies, associated lefties and the 'climate change' industry will be breaking out the organic, alcohol free champagne today after their leader fulfilled his promise to kill off the coal industry. Without putting anything in place to mitigate the effects of their actions, Obama together with the vested interests that support him have put their ideology before the wellbeing of the people.

As anyone who follows the behavior of politicians will know, this latest action by Obama has got little to do with cooling the planet and everything to do with controlling the people. As important as that debate is, for the purpose of this article it is peripheral to the one about tribal, party based voting habits and will be dealt with separately.

Electors are obviously unaware that casting ones vote for a particular political party on the basis of family tradition degrades democracy, disenfranchises the voter and emboldens the politicians to indulge in self serving behaviors that are detrimental to the well being of both community and country.

Safe in the knowledge that they will never be voted out of office, the political class in 'safe' constituencies routinely ignore the wishes of the people and follow their own ideological agenda regardless of any detrimental effects and often enriching themselves in the process.

The issue of blind tribal loyalties and the part it plays in the downfall of communities is common to both Great Britain and the USA.

As a native of the South Wales coal field I witnessed first hand the consequences of the closure of the British coal industry and subsequent effect on the traditionally close knit communities. The blame for this lies entirely with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM),  its two politically motivated leaders, Arthur Scargill and Mick McGahey together with their supporters and sympathetic political activists, including the Labour Party.

The reasons for the demise of the British coal industry can be read here.

It was obvious from his background and his initial utterances that Senator Obama was the most ideologically driven presidential candidate in history, so when he told the American people that his energy plan would mean "that energy bills would necessarily sky rocket", they should have sat up and taken notice.

His next statement was an open declaration of war against the coal industry, the miners and their communities:  "if somebody wants to build a coal fired power plant they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them".

With a clear, unequivocal declaration of that nature one would think that the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and its leadership would beat to quarters and mobilise the membership either to lobby against Obama's proposals or to back the other candidate.

Ignoring the threat to the livelihoods of the coal miners or the well being of their families, the UMWA leadership endorsed candidate Obama and in an act of blind obedience, or utter stupidity, the membership complied.

By this mindless action the mining communities were party to their own downfall and therefore deserve no sympathy; they brought it on themselves.

In mitigation it can be said that Obama did promise that millions of 'green' jobs will be created as the energy sector moved to renewables together with millions more 'shovel ready' jobs as part of the stimulus package. The mining communities should have known that these were promises made during an election campaign and shouldn't be taken as truth.

These jobs didn't materialise and adding insult to injury, one 'green' energy company, the infamous Solyndra, made off with billions of taxpayer money before declaring bankruptcy.

As a further kick in the teeth for the coal mining industry Obama chooses to appease the green lobby instead of mitigating the disaster facing the coal mining communities.  He is refusing to endorse the Keystone pipeline project with the consequent loss of well paid jobs.

He is also refusing to drill for oil on federal lands or to fully embrace fracking for natural gas which would go someway to replacing the lost coalfield jobs and help move America towards energy independence.

With this record of antagonism toward the mining communities one would have thought that the UMWA leadership would endorse anyone but Obama for a second term but in an act of supreme cowardice and without a care for the welfare of the membership they held off their recommendation until late in the campaign before advising an abstention.

This was a cynical manipulation of the traditional loyalty of coal miners with the intention of not being seen to be endorsing the anti-coal Obama while at the same time preventing the membership from effectively campaigning for the other candidate.

It is worth noting the attitude of UMWA leader, Mike Caputo who like his British counterparts, Scargill and McGahey, puts his own political loyalties above that of the people he is sworn to represent.

Caputo combines his leadership of the UMWA with being a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. This dual representation brings into question his loyalties should there be a conflict of interest between his political party and his membership.

This question was answered during the second term election where he endorsed Obama knowing full well his malign intentions toward the UMWA membership. By leaving it late into the campaign before recommending an abstention he effectively prevented any opposition to Obama being organised from within the coal mining communities.

Caputo's cynical manipulation of his members can be highlighted by his statement after he recommended an abstention:

"I am a hardcore Democrat, I intend to vote for Obama. I am loyal to my party".

Like his British counterparts, Messrs. Scargill and McGahey, Mike Caputo is loyal to his party, not to the membership or the communities that have put their faith in him to look after their interests.

It would appear that the idea that trade unions are there to look after the interests of their members and their families doesn't apply the coal industry in either the USA or Great Britain.

I would suggest that the coal mining communities learn from this treachery and stop their tribal voting habits. In West Virginia and elsewhere they should treat Mr. Caputo with the same contempt with which he treats them and boot him out at the earliest possible opportunity from both the Legislature and the UMWA.

Update: 

It would appear that I am not the only one who thinks they are stupid. See here.

Obama's War On Coal - Time To Stockpile Prozac

If anyone is taken in by reasons for the war on coal by their 'Progressive in Chief', then there is no hope for the American people. Having already claimed that he will heal the planet and stop the oceans from rising, he is now claiming that by throwing thousands of coal miners out of work and destroying long established communities, he will cool the planet and stop any further hurricanes such as Sandy and Katrina.

In addition to this nonsense, the 'Progressive in Chief' has put the American people on notice that "energy prices will necessarily have to skyrocket" in order to cool the planet. The community organizer and economic genius obviously hasn't worked out the devastating effect this will have on American industry and the jobs market, at a time when the economy is in the doldrums and the nation's debt is approaching $17 trillion.

As the informed people of the world are aware, due to the lack of global warming over the last 17 years, the 'progressive' elite have been forced to change the name of their scam from 'Man Made Global Warming' to the more flexible 'Combating Climate Change'.

Either way they are still carrying on with the same plan to wreck the economies of the developed world and redistribute its wealth in order to compensate the developing world for the damage they have already done to the planet and to help them to 'combat climate change' in the future.

In his choreographed speech the 'Progressive in Chief' wheeled out the same tired, discredited soundbites that blighted the airwaves during the height of the scam. 'The science is settled' and 'the debate is over' etc. ad nauseum, that were so beloved by global warming billionaire Al Gore.

President Obama deliberately failed to mentioned the lack of warming for the last 17 years; he failed to mention the 'Climategate Scandal' whereby the so called experts from the Climate Change Unit at the University of East Anglia were caught red handed falsifying data, using flawed cost models and vilifying any scientist who spoke the truth.

He also failed to mention that the very basis for the global warning scam i.e. the Mann Hockey Stick graph, has been exposed as a fake and also the fact that it conveniently excluded the medieval warm period.

He failed to mention that the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports are riddled with deliberate falsehoods and lies concerning the Amazon rain forests, the retreating Himalayan glaciers, which are not, and the African harvest scare.

The 'Progressive' in Chief's'  battle against climate change is not even original. The British people have been putting up with this nonsense for years. They even have a Department of Energy and Climate Change at the heart of their government, which is busy closing coal fired power stations and covering the countryside with bird shredding windmills which will not cover the shortfall in energy.

**The coal industry in Great Britain has been destroyed and the aftermath is not a pretty sight. The coal mining communities and the people of America in general would do well to look at their brothers and sisters over the pond.

Energy prices have already 'skyrocketed' and many of the most vulnerable are in fuel poverty, although the government, in an act of generosity with taxpayers money, give pensioners a 'winter fuel allowance' of $310 per year. This allowance is not means tested therefore it is given to millionaires and billionaires like Sir Richard Branson of Virgin fame. This stupidity means that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates would qualify for a 'winter fuel allowance if he were British.

The former coal mining communities are devastated and reduced to welfare addiction, poor educational standards, drink and drug fuelled crime, family breakdown and poor health.

A multitude of areas in the former South Wales coalfield have been classified by the government as 'deprived areas' although after my recent tour of the former coalfield  that can be taken with a pinch of salt.

The recent story from Blaenau Gwent would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. In this former coal mining area 1 in 6 of the population are being prescribed Prozac to combat depression. There were no figures for the rest of the coalfield but if the same is true then the whole area will be plagued by violent, suicidal zombies suffering from sexual dysfunction.

What is not surprising is that area has been represented by the hard left of the Labour Party for generations. The population obviously hasn't made the connection between the Labour Party, socialism, economic failure and poverty.

Now that the voters are addicted to Prozac, I don't suppose the real world will encroach upon their pharmaceutically induced LaLa Land and change their voting patterns.

** To clarify, the British coal industry was not destroyed in pursuit of 'combating climate change' but by the communist run National Union of Mineworkers during their attempt to bring down the democratically elected government.