[Coach_Owens87]

I do want to comment on this and I AM done::::

Would you prefer to work at what you do now and take care of 5 or 6 families who are drawing KY medical insurance, provide them with food or better yet... let YOUR money provide them with the food stamps they will need to survive for the month... and OH... lord don't let me forget the electricity bill..... we can't have them freezing to death now can we? Oh... what about clothes and money for school for the kids...... OOPS... the water bill has to be paid.... car insurance (that is if they even have a car what with not having a job or nothing)........WHAT I am trying to get across is this is the ONLY way many men have to provide for their families!!!! You do what you have to do to survive...... IF mining were THAT bad... there wouldn't be the abundance of jobs in that profession....

I'm OUT!

lol, and what was that supposed to prove? Im gonna freeze and starve without coal? The whole let them freeze in the winter rhetoric is way outdated, and is getting annoying.

I never said coal didn't provide jobs, it does, and it is the only job many people in this area have. What I'm trying to say is that this is wrong, we deserve better. Our economy is so tied up in coal that it dominates everything, and we are lead to believe we can't survive without it. We're sacrificing our land, and the health of our generation, and future generations for the greed of coal companies. Ive never worked in the mines, and I don't plan on it, but I do know many people who do, and they are all hard workers. I know they do the best to provide for their families, as most people do. I just believe the destruction of our land, and our people must stop.

And the last sentence you had was just hilarious, "if it were that bad there wouldn't be any jobs in that profession!" Come on, you know that isn't true. Money talks, and that is what is keeping the practice of MTR alive, it's cheap, and provides a major profit for the companies. They don't care what damage is done, they just sit back and enjoy the riches.