Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

Yes, tell it to the coal miners who had their job artificially killed due to overbearing regulations...

...their jobs didn't go away because of the natural job industry changing process.

How about when if it's determined that self-driving truck produce less pollution and traffic, will you still support the truck driver or the tech that will replace him?

Not sure why that is always the answer from you guys. When are people going to be responsible for themselves, make sure they are looking to the future and what the job market will bring?

The regulations aren't imposed on industry to prevent the owners of the mines from making money for christ's sake, they're there to protect miners from unsafe working conditions and the public from the effects of pollution. If the industry demonstrated responsibility for the health of its workforce and and the quality of the environment we wouldn't need government regulation.

Yes they did. The most productive coal seams were mined out in the Appalachians and the current process of extraction there is much more capital intensive. Automation has also replaced jobs in the east and in the big western strip mines.

Except that has nothing to do with my comment about truckers appropriating the name of the occupation they replaced.

Most people aren't in a position to see into the future and walk away from a good-paying job because they suspect it might not be there some time in the future.

Is it really so wrong to tap into the vast wealth of the country and temporarily help hardworking people who've lost their jobs through no fault of their own, maybe providing job training, relocation services, and loans?

What a bunch of niggardly skinflints.

Health of the worker, do you really expect me to believe that?

The first federal statute directly regulating non-coal mines did not appear until the passage of the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act of 1966. The 1966 Act provided for the promulgation of standards, many of which were advisory, and for inspections and investigations; however, its enforcement authority was minimal.

The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, generally referred to as the Coal Act, was more comprehensive and more stringent than any previous Federal legislation governing the mining industry. The Coal Act included surface as well as underground coal mines within its scope, required two annual inspections of every surface coal mine and four at every underground coal mine, and dramatically increased federal enforcement powers in coal mines. The Coal Act also required monetary penalties for all violations, and established criminal penalties for knowing and willful violations. The safety standards for all coal mines were strengthened, and health standards were adopted. The Coal Act included specific procedures for the development of improved mandatory health and safety standards, and provided compensation for miners who were totally and permanently disabled by the progressive respiratory disease caused by the inhalation of fine coal dust pneumoconiosis or "black lung".

In 1973, the Secretary of the Interior, through administrative action, created the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (MESA) as a new departmental agency separate from the Bureau of Mines. MESA assumed the safety and health enforcement functions formerly carried out by the Bureau to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest between the enforcement of mine safety and health standards and the Bureau's responsibilities for mineral resource development.

Next, Congress passed the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), the legislation which currently governs MSHA's activities. The Mine Act amended the 1969 Coal Act in a number of significant ways, and consolidated all federal health and safety regulations of the mining industry, coal as well as non-coal mining, under a single statutory scheme. The Mine Act strengthened and expanded the rights of miners, and enhanced the protection of miners from retaliation for exercising such rights. Mining fatalities dropped sharply under the Mine Act from 272 in 1977 to 86 in 2000. The Mine Act also transferred responsibility for carrying out its mandates from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Labor, and named the new agency the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Additionally, the Mine Act established the independent Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission to provide for independent review of the majority of MSHA's enforcement actions.

In 2006, Congress passed the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act (MINER Act). The MINER Act amended the Mine Act to require mine-specific emergency response plans in underground coal mines; added new regulations regarding mine rescue teams and sealing of abandoned areas; required prompt notification of mine accidents; and enhanced civil penalties.

That isn't true, the mines started shutting down after the regulations from the EPA...

There are two questions we asked at the beginning of this brief: What happened to the coal industry? And what happened to coal jobs? The coal industry expanded dramatically from 1950 to 2010 and has declined moderately for the past few years, for the very clear and logical reasons articulated here.

What happened to coal jobs is even simpler. It is the same thing that happened throughout much of the country — productivity gains led to fewer workers needed to produce the same output.

An additional force hurt coal employment — regional competition between the East and the West. The labor-lean West has taken significant market share from the labor-intensive East. The result is that far fewer miners are needed.

Some policies have been proposed to bring back coal jobs. One is to cut environmental regulations, both on coal and natural gas production. But think about that move — it will probably accelerate the decline of coal, as natural gas makes further inroads into the market.

Eliminating regulation can have many consequences. Weakening regulation on railroads in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in job losses in Eastern coal.

What is clear from this discussion is that environmental regulations did not kill coal. Progress is the culprit.

fascist of the worst order.

(mine is that what is generally accepted)

tell me again about the First Amendment rights?

Freedom of speech is a good start.

Since the UK doesn't have a written constitution, where did you find the amendment to it?

You mean something like calling it "fake news" in your attack against the remaining journalists who are trying to report the facts? I agree.

I was asking which Amendment in the UK protects their right to free speech, since we know there is no Constitution in the UK we already know Americans are more free than those in the UK.

What guarantee's the right to free speech in the UK? What guarantees free speech in Germany?

What guarantees free speech in Germany?

Article 5 [Freedom of expression]

(1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
(2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honor.
(3) Art and scholarship, research, and teaching shall be free. The freedom of teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution.

The Federal Constitutional Court's duty is to ensure that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz – Basic Law) is obeyed.