Hillary promises she'll kill jobs and shut down an entire industry

First it was Barack Obama who said his regulations on coal companies would make electricity rates "necessarily skyrocket."

Now Hillary Clinton is doing him one better. She's promising to put every coal company out of business and every coal miner out of a job.

"Vote for me, you'll be unemployed!" doesn't exactly seem like a winning strategy, but hey, what do I know?

Because we must all sacrifice something on the altar of Climate Change and coal is this week's bogeyman.

Interestingly I had this very conversation with a Hillary supporter on Saturday night. She was introduced to me as friend-of-a-friend and we got chatting about our teenage daughters, who happen to be the same age.

We were discussing the awkwardness of watching teen girls navigate their way around boys, and how yes our daughters are noticing boys, and more importantly how boys are noticing them, when she states matter-of-factly, "my daughter likes this one boy, but his family are Republicans" (with of course all the contempt you can imagine she could muster). Followed immediately by, "not like us and everyone here of course, we're all good Democrats." And then rounded out with, "she's going to make it her mission to convert him into a Democrat."

Humpf. Presumptuous, eh?

I tried to demur; it wasn't my party and I was there to have a good time. But she moved in for the kill. "Can you believe they're voting for Marco Rubio? He doesn't believe in Climate Change!"

Uh, oh. Danger Will Robinson! Warning! Warning!

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

"Actually, lots of people don't believe it's man-made," I said. "Most of the temperature fluctuations could be attributable to sunspots, and besides there hasn't been any measurable warming for the past 19 years. Even many climate scientists now acknowledge this 'pause'."

"You don't believe in climate change!" she exclaimed with that patented wide-eyed smile liberals all seem to have perfected when winding up to "educate" us neanderthals.

But I cut her off. "No, I don't believe in the radical solutions being put forth to combat the problem. For example, look at how many people have lost their jobs in coal mining. Towns are devasted, people are living in poverty, the jobs are all gone."

"Well, then they should just be retrained for green jobs," she decreed, as if waving a magic wand will bring prosperity back to Appalachia.

"That's not so simple, and besides who's going to pay for all that? Green energy is already more expensive."

"They should just learn how to do something else," she insisted.

"Which is why we should put engineers in charge of this problem instead of politicians," I said. "Engineers can find ways to keep cost-effective fossil fuels in use until the green energy industry really gets going."

Which to her credit, she was at least willing to think about, before we moved on to other, less contentious topics.

I bring this up because as it turns out Hillary pushed the same "let 'em make solar panels" mantra right after she told all those coal workers they were screwed.

The thing is though, she doesn't have a plan for how that will happen.

And the people affected might not want to believe she'll help them, not if they remember her saying, "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

In this case, "the common good" is Gaia worship. So, who knows, after she's done wiping out the coal industry she could go after oil, or gas, or the left's old favorite bugaboo, nuclear power. Anything to appease the eco-warriors!

The real (and sad) point of all this is, even though we now have a presidential candiate who's openly telling people she's going to destroy their livelihood, most of those folks are "good Democrats" and they'll blindly vote for her anyway.

Sigh.

Posted at 16:16 by Chris Wysocki   [/election]   Comments | Perm Link |
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