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RosieG

Coal Miners want their coal mine jobs back. In the Horse and Carriage days what did carriage makers do when cars replaced what they made?

It's called PROGRESS. Do typewriter companies exist now? Why? What about bustle makers? Anyone see anyone wear a bustle lately? They're so yesterday aren't they? So what is it about yesterday that you miss so much you want it back? You will have to give up what replaced it of course. Forget the carriages. What did horses do to earn a living after they were no longer needed to pull carriages? Glue factories were their fate? Not so great. Sometimes progress sucks. Ever ride in a horse and carriage? Would they be allowed on freeways?   Inquiring minds wanna know these things.

Posted - December 8, 2017
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  • 1812
    This is hard for me to say... but we are in agreement. :)
      December 8, 2017 5:19 AM MST
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  • 113301
    I shall not pursue why it is so hard for you. I don't care. Thank you for your reply and Happy Friday Weylon.
      December 8, 2017 5:47 AM MST
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  • 1305
    The Gypsies still use them, in fact I think they may have a very good point with the way they live, all stick together, all put in for land, and all live on it in caravans, don't pay taxes like we do, who are the idiots I wonder?  I don't agree with everything, the fly tipping etc.  But civilisation has become a very expensive, and damaging process, maybe the best way to live is on the move, back to the travelling tribes we use to be, you're much harder to control when you move around.  Civilisation is domestication and domestication is slavery, tell me how many real choices we have today?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AB9LZiOh1I

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6p5QPVhPI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A


    This post was edited by kjames at December 8, 2017 11:44 AM MST
      December 8, 2017 5:35 AM MST
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  • 19937
    Interesting take on this question.  The Amish are pretty much the same although they remain in one place.
      December 8, 2017 8:45 AM MST
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  • 5354
    I hear the SM crowd pay well for buggy whips :-)
      December 8, 2017 6:00 AM MST
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  • 34283
    Until we no longer need coal, we still need coal miners. The majority of electricity in the US is derived from coal. 
    Coal has not went the way of the stage coach or typewriter. Coal is needed and used. Why would we import coal when we have it in abundance?
      December 8, 2017 6:26 AM MST
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  • 5354
    Because all the 'easy' coal have already been dug up. What is left will take more work and more expensive machinery == Higher costs

    I suspect the answer to why the US was willing to sell 20% of US uraium mining capacity is similar. The 'easy' stuff always get mined first.
      December 8, 2017 6:40 AM MST
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  • 34283
    The reason coal mining jobs were dying is because of political intervention by leftists thinking they were helping the environment. Obama:"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
      December 8, 2017 6:53 AM MST
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  • Yes strip mining the tops off of mountains for bituminous and brown coal is  great and only a leftist concern.   All those hill people who had their culture, lives, and homes devastated and ruined for decades upon decades by big coal are and were all leftist.
    All those people who are sick of having extremely toxic coal ash spilling into their local rivers in place like North Carolina are all Marxist lefties.


    There is no reason.  No good reason to build any more coal fired power plants.  Sure we can't just shut evryone down by tomorrow but we should be phasing them out and building a new one is just retarded.
      December 8, 2017 7:10 AM MST
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  • 5354
    I dont think Lill' Abner was a Leftist
      December 8, 2017 8:38 AM MST
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