New EPA regulations will cost tens of thousands of jobs
Is there trouble in liberal paradise? Through the years, the Obama Administration has received tremendous support from the unions, which provided him with plenty of votes in both 2008 and 2012. But the new carbon emissions regulations from Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency are being criticized by some unions and the working class Democrats they represent.
Among the union leaders opposed to the new regulations is Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America. He claims that the regulations will leave tens of thousands of the union’s members unemployed. Yeah, no kidding.
In a prepared statement, Roberts said, “The proposed rule…will lead to long-term and irreversible job losses for thousands of coal miners, electrical workers, utility workers, boilermakers, railroad workers and others without achieving any significant reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions.”
An analysis by the union estimates that the regulations will cause 75,000 job losses in the coal sector by 2020, rising to 152,000 by 2035.
Will the loss of support from some unions cause Obama to back down on the EPA’s strict regulations that will seriously damage the coal industry? Unfortunately, no. The War on Coal is something that Obama has been committed to for a long time, and he doesn’t care how many people are negatively affected by it.
He’d much rather make a few billionaire political donors happy than save the jobs of thousands of coal industry workers, especially since he doesn’t have another re-election to worry about. And as Obama himself predicted in 2008, all of us will pay the price when electricity rates soar. Thanks a lot, Barack. Your quest to destroy America is proceeding along nicely.
eveyone should remember weather and storms ect go in cycles have since beginning of time can we try to be better conservationest yes but don’t break every American and are country why dont all the nations have to follow are rules
Some humor from an email I just received, too many getting upset here!
“TRAGEDY IN ALASKA
Alaskan Bear …..Mt. McKinley National Park:
This is a very sad story about a bear…
Everybody should heed the warnings not to feed wildlife because they become dependent and don’t forage for themselves any longer. It is such a tragedy to see what has been done to our country’s wildlife. The US Forest Service photo below captures
a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect U.S. wildlife.
(photo not attaching, sorry. ‘Tis a black bear patiently sitting, paws folded, at a picnic bench…)
Animals that formerly were self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democrat Party. They have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance. This photo is of a black bear in Alaska turned Democrat.
He’s nicknamed Bearack Obearma.
It is believed that he has become a campground organizer.
Remember: ’Black Bears Matter!’ ”
Unions SUCK! And for those will deny it, yes, there are way too many jobs where membership IS required. ‘Tis why I will only substitute teach rather than join the crappy educators’ union.
Thanks for the laughs. Your post was hilarious even without the pic.
What happened to for the people by the people? Why wasn’t that goon impeached? If we all got together as one voice we would be heard,on all the subjects that we object to we need one voice, get rid of that cancer that is killing America.
he has not been impeached ,because the republicans, don ‘t have the support , it takes to do it .
Well I did not vote for him in either election. I did not vote for the loon prior to him either. Frankly I do not know who to vote for in the future since it’s clear you can not trust any of them. Once they sit in that seat, they are nothing more than puppets for the rich. The only good thing I can say about Clinton is at least he did not leave us flat broke (but did send all our decent paying jobs out of the country to 3rd world so they do not have to pay a decent wage for workers. Then all of North America is currently unable to even buy a decent meal now (unless your rich or have one of the 100 decent paying jobs that are left); All of our rights have been taken away without the people even knowing it until they are arrested for sharing their opinions openly. Just ask (anyone but the rich) if they feel safe; protected or free anymore.
There are many negative comments about unions in this thread and misinformation that exist due to ignorance of what a union is and what unions have done for all regardless of a union affiliation. First no one is forced to join a union, but if one choses to there are dues to pay for operating expenses of the organization just as any organization requires funds to operate. The operation exists to maintain and improve the conditions of the individuals that make up that union. As to the comment of “lazy union workers”, yes there are lazy individuals everywhere. This does not mean all union workers are lazy. Let no one forget that labor unions, which are the individuals of the organization, have fought tirelessly over the last 120 plus years to get things like 8 hour workday, vacation time, insurance, safe working conditions, and retirement programs that people in all sectors of employment enjoy. History will repeat of we do not stay informed. I do agree both parties do not have our, the publics, best interest at the forefront of their agendas.
I cannot believe that there are some of you in this world that want to blame Obama for anything you make up. And I do mean make up!! We do have global warming no matter how you close your eyes to the fact. The world would be a much better place without you who only want to cause trouble for this country.
I would like to see actual PROOF of your global warming. Not some AlGore made up nonsense, either.
I have only have two words to say to this nonsense, Dust Bowl! Did the Texas/Oklahoma farmers cause the drought? No. Did they make it a hell of a lot worse? Yes, yes they did. So can humans effect climate? Obviously yes. Does it make any real difference if burning fossil fuels Cause global climate change? No, no it doesn’t. Have they shown that it’s making it worse? Yes they have. Are the polar Ice caps melting, yes, yes they are. And before ANY of you embarrass yourselves the last time I looked Antartica is a continent, North America and Europe are as well. Greenland is a really large island . The ice that’s melting is running off land into the ocean so that argument about the ice cube in a glass of water is just well…. stupid. And in case you think this doesn’t have any effect on your life 80% of the people in this country live less than 100 miles from the coast. So where are all those New Yorkers going to go when the water level goes up? That’s right… next door to any place that isn’t under water. Your house? Good bye Red states, welcome to living on the coast..
Well Dorothy, science has disproved nobama and his fat boy gorehead. Check the facts and get off your knees to nobama.
I agree with you – we have global warming from winter to spring and spring to summer. Summer to fall and fall to winter is global cooling. We have it every year. Its also called the change of the seasons. :)
I have two words for you folks that believe that burning fossil fuels isn’t an issue… Dust Bowl. Remember that? Did the farmers cause the drought, no. Did they make it worse… yes. Same thing here. It doesn’t matter if it was the original cause to make the ice to melt if it makes it worse. And before any of you say it, Antarctica is a continent, no floating ice there, or Alaska, or Canada, or Greenland or northern Europe/Russia. so better get used to coastal people moving to your town because most people currently live close to the shore. Ask any long time Coloradoan what it’s like to be flooded with people from California.
Does it matter where coal is burned? Now our resources will be shipped to China along with our money, hay (and water it takes to raise it) and still be burned without the epa’s control.
‘ Exactly ‘ ; but we pay the price ‘. some of us learned in 2012 ‘ ; that free, and honest ‘ elections , are a thing of the past ‘.
I would rather be Obama’s enemy than his friend, at least I know where I stand and who my friends are and how to protect myself..
Sorry Cliff A, I think the EPA should be done away with. There good is far less, than the bad they have done to this country. And the EPA, only makes the decisions the President wants. Example- Bullets, or lead, was pushed by this Prez., because he want our guns to start with, so like other countries, his chosen people, that is always well armed, can take over. There called muslims. Not sure witch is worse the EPA, or the United Nations, both are destroying our country. We know what the EPA is doing, but the UN, wants all guns banned in the world, pushing for another big lie, Global Warming, and pushing for the biggest prize of all, New World Order. The Un is as big a scam, as the EPA. Not only has Obama play the democrats, he has used the black man as well. Remember, this man will use anything, and anybody, to achieve his goal. EVERYBODY knows what the goal is, he told everyone what that was in his speeches before he was Prez. And he’s doing it. CHANGE = DESTRUCTION.
Lazy union workers made your bed, now lie in it
Lazy union workers?? It was not a matter of CHOICE! It was an obligation to join the union. Regardless of your craft!
That is why every state in America should be a right to work state….it should be unconstitutional to MAKE you join a union to get a job….of course, Obamacare is unconstitutional regardless of what the traitor black robed Roberts says….your government does not, according to the constitutional or the damn commerce clause, have the right to MAKE you purchase something you do not want and tax (it must be tax instead of penalty or it is unconstitutional) you if you do not purchase it….that is pure communism….time to stop the tyranny of this overbloated, unconstitutional federal government we now serve…..it is for sure that they do not serve us.
Way to go Wanda. Someone else finally thinks what I think about Obama being about Communism. And I feel that all of Washington should have to know the Constitution of the United Stated BEFORE elected and maybe even the more Sr. people just in case they forgot.
I’m with you Rod. I, too, think the EPA should be done away with and the board of education.
‘ Amen ‘ , Dee .
You are playing into the hands of Barry. This is what he wants. The plan is to have as many people dependent on the government as possible. So union workers losing their jobs works just fine for him (her?).
It’s time for coal to go away. Fossil fuels have had a good run but the future is calling. Renewables are here, retraining is possible. I’m a former carpenter turned trucker. Local 817 to local 179.
There are clean ways to mine and use coal and it is by far the cheapest way to produce electricity, so there is a lot of room to refine its use and keep it cleaner and safe. Remember electricity is a secondary power soucer and is produced from another source of energy and not highly efficienty and there is transmission losses. Ther are no viable alternatives at this point unless of couse you feel like paying 10 to 15 times what you are paying now, it is going to be a very long transition period…like a hundred plus years.
So, Chuck, I take that your truck is powered by solar and wind generation, the wind coming from the extreme speed caused by that solar engine. Yeah, Chuck, maybe you’ve got something there.
Maybe Chuck has an electric truck ; you know , he just plugs it in ‘ , every night , and its ready to go in the morning . That is free electricity that comes out of that receptacle .
Renewables are heavily subsidized ., unless they get the , ‘ gub – mint ‘ money .
I move ‘ , wind – turbines ‘, they are not cost -efficient ‘.
there is a problem with people saying ” unions did this “. I am a former railroad sheetmetalworkers union member and did not vote for OB. When someone says “union” like this they are inferring all unions did this and this is wrong. As for gov, does not matter who is in office we, the employers of these people are being used for their personal gain.
When union leadership is allowed by its members to cozy upto leaders such as Obama so the membership can gain benefits that are beyond what is reasonable to expect in economic circumstances at a particular time, you should not expect sympathy from the public when business leaders move their business elsewhere and Obama throws you under the bus; and that results in your jobs being lost. It is a self inflicted wound.
While many union members may vote Republican (or Libertarian, or any other non-Democrat party), the leadership at state and national levels of nearly all unions make nearly all political contributions to the Democrat party. The solution is to prohibit political contributions by unions and corporations. Only natural persons who are US citizens should be able to make political contributions, as they are the only ones who are eligible to vote.
As terrible as a democrat administration is, a republican administration would be worse. Wake up America, There are no politicians in office that serve the best interest of the citizens of this country. Their loyalty belongs to those that pay their campaigns and line their pockets with money. Who has that kind of influence?
I agree totally. People are so stupid to jerk away from one party to another just because they don’t like what a party is doing. Both parties the same. We have no 2-party political system in America. And a third party has no chance at all. Face it, folks, the US has been conquered from within and there is nothing you can do to get it back. The home of the brave (Egypt) is not in the cards for America.
Is the republican party , full of “Communists ” ; is it full of Muslims ‘; and does it believe in MURDER ” ?
If you actually believe our country could now be worse off than it now is domestically and in our position in the world, you must not read a newspaper or know how your financial health is being affected or how your children/grandchildren are learningto view our nations leaders as lawless jerks who divide us as opposed to bring us together, and use government agencies as ruthless vigilantes to settle political scores vs conduct normal business. Richard Nixon’s crimes look like parking tickets compared to what this administration is doing to America. Be objective for once in your life , Bush was no pise, but this guy has watched over half a million Arab Christians get wiped out in Iraq ISIS and the Shite communities and done nothing to stop it and this along with his distain for the American citizens’ rights with open border policies. Right now as a member of the middle class between dollar deflation lowering puchasing power and higher medical insurance costs, I figure I am down about $12 per year thanks to this clown in the Whitehouse and his policies.
Yes ‘ ; poor Jimmy Carter ‘ ; has lost his title , as # 1 ‘.
We need the EPA. But we need an equilibrium in the decisions that this arm of the Government is suppose to provide the general public. It is one thing to say that you are polluting the environment it is another to provide alternative solutions to the problem.
There is a Peach orchard run by Joe Mitcham, in Louisiana, that will go out of business because the EPA has determined that the only product used to prevent a peach tree fungus from spreading throughout Joe Mitcham’s peach orchard harms the ozone. Now the problem is this, this chemical is used on not only peaches but other fruit trees as well. So, Mr. Joe Mitcham is unable to grow any other fruit tree in his orchard.
There is another case in 2008, where the Doe Run lead smelter plant closed down in 2013 because the EPA “issued new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for lead that were 10 times tighter than the previous standard.” Following the release of this standard, the Doe Run Company tried to bring the Herculaneum, Missouri smelter into compliance but in 2010 realized the cost of compliance was too great. They then reached a “comprehensive settlement” with both the EPA and the state of Missouri, requiring the smelter to close at the end of 2013. This plant was the last smelter plant that makes bullets for your ammunition. Now all your bullets are to be made and come from outside the country. The government and now keep tabs of what comes into the country and to whom this ammunition goes to.
We need to change the directives of the EPA to include of providing cost effective solutions to their so called regulations. In short cut the red tape once and for all.
The US government was created by the states. It was created ONLY to protect citizens of the states from harm from outside sources such as standing armies. The US government was not created to do anything else. So we should strip the US government of all “duties” except what the original framers of the Constitution gave it… to make sure the citizens are protected and that their gun rights are NEVER stripped away.
No, I’m not a gun nut… just a well-informed Constitutionalist. But since the US has been infiltrated and taken over from within, you will see it getting larger and larger and larger, until the citizen can no longer be seen, heard, or cared about at all.
In a country ; where guns are permitted , their people are known as ‘ citizens ‘. In a country that forbids the citizens to have guns ; they are known as ,” subjects “.
I agree 1000%
Good riddance to useless unions!!!!!
Potus, a socialist commie using the democratic party as a front. Is everybody asleep,or is this what the people want. It may be to late if we the people do not.
The stupid people are stupid still. And always will be.
And ; ” You can ‘t fix ‘ , s t u p i d ” .
You are correct ‘ , Henry . I was a democrat ‘, too ,before it was commandeered by the Communist ‘ party .
First target was housing then utilities, then conservatives, then gas, toss our military in the works, every organization making money, including football –no one is left to stand for the Unions . To Unionites: Did you really think you were exempt?
History repeating—-
He is only fulfilling his agenda ‘.
Free energy is on its way! Coldplay! Everything is going to change because of it. It will have to open up in many countries all at once so our government won’t be able to stop it.
And ;do you still believe in Santa Claus ‘ , and the Easter Bunny ‘ , too ?