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Re: Richmond, California City Council Issues Fatwah Against Their Port's Coal Terminal
Author: Keith Ode
Date: 01-15-2020 - 22:18
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> > Way to go crapifornia drive out more good paying
> jobs I'm sure the illegals and welfare slugs will
> make up the lost tax base
>
> Obviously you've never been around coal using
> areas. Take a look at 1940s era pictures of the
> downtown areas of Boston, NYC, Philly, Chicago,
> etc and compare them to pix from the same era of
> downtown San Diego, LA, SF, Portland, and Seattle.
> The SD, LA, SF, PDX, and Seattle buildings are
> light colored, while buildings in all the others
> are black with coal soot. The others are light
> colored now because the weather has finally washed
> off the decades of soot accumulation. Also think
> of the notorious London fogs of the same era. When
> I was in Sydney on R&R in 1970, the NSWGR was
> still running coal fired steam engines, and you
> couldn't touch any horizontal surface without
> picking up a lot of soot and cinders. Coal is
> absolutely filthy.
Well understood, but this isn't the 1940's and nobody is burning coal in furnaces on a large scale. I agree, there is no legitimate argument for the continued use of coal. However, simply eliminating these good paying jobs that support families and the tax base, there should be a requirement to find any displaced worker a similar replacement job.
Although I'm against most forms of welfare, if we're going to blow hundreds of millions of dollars annually on illegal aliens in California, maybe we could guarantee those 62 American union workers an early retirement. Let's put our money where our bleeding-heart mouths are and pay whatever it takes to eliminate the coal industry while giving actual Americans some of those entitlements they've been paying for their whole lives.
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> > Way to go crapifornia drive out more good paying
> jobs I'm sure the illegals and welfare slugs will
> make up the lost tax base
>
> Obviously you've never been around coal using
> areas. Take a look at 1940s era pictures of the
> downtown areas of Boston, NYC, Philly, Chicago,
> etc and compare them to pix from the same era of
> downtown San Diego, LA, SF, Portland, and Seattle.
> The SD, LA, SF, PDX, and Seattle buildings are
> light colored, while buildings in all the others
> are black with coal soot. The others are light
> colored now because the weather has finally washed
> off the decades of soot accumulation. Also think
> of the notorious London fogs of the same era. When
> I was in Sydney on R&R in 1970, the NSWGR was
> still running coal fired steam engines, and you
> couldn't touch any horizontal surface without
> picking up a lot of soot and cinders. Coal is
> absolutely filthy.
Well understood, but this isn't the 1940's and nobody is burning coal in furnaces on a large scale. I agree, there is no legitimate argument for the continued use of coal. However, simply eliminating these good paying jobs that support families and the tax base, there should be a requirement to find any displaced worker a similar replacement job.
Although I'm against most forms of welfare, if we're going to blow hundreds of millions of dollars annually on illegal aliens in California, maybe we could guarantee those 62 American union workers an early retirement. Let's put our money where our bleeding-heart mouths are and pay whatever it takes to eliminate the coal industry while giving actual Americans some of those entitlements they've been paying for their whole lives.
