In 1977, the late Ed Sadlowski, the Steel Workers' radical, offered a rejoinder to Trump's essentialist vision: "the ultimate goal of organized labor is for no man to have to go down in the bowels of the earth and dig coal," said Sadlowski, "No man will have to be subjected to the blast furnace."
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Trump: "One thing I learned about the coal miners -- that's what they want to do. You could give them a penthouse on 5th Avenue and a different kind of a job and they'd be unhappy. They want to mine coal. She was gonna put them in a high tech industry where you make little cell phones and things."
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He's projecting on Kamala of course.
The problem is most Americans glamourize coal workers as hard working. Ironic Coal workers had Strong Unions and supported.
I think people are really missing this is Economic Populism. This shows Trump bringing these jobs back
So good luck to you, miners!
https://youtu.be/9CP8FgkmBpA?si=MF_b2ZIVOC76nhP_
But Trump fights unions. He fights minimum wages. He wants low wages.
He doesn’t want America 1950s jobs. He wants us to have Bangladeshi 2025 jobs
Which would be why they voted for a con man.
Another day older and deeper in debt
He made sure my brother and I went to college and work at a desk.
Trump is full of shit.
...hey, it's better than the Fertilizer President...
https://thenewpress.com/books/stayin%E2%80%99-alive
The difference is that the Danish labor movement has been very strong and smart and has secured good working conditions.
Ruined his hips - he was a small guy and worked wedged into small spaces
Also lungs
Shit
And Lutnick said they’d be lining up to screw things into cell phones.
- No Parent Ever
My grandfather worked in coal mines, lived in company housing, shopped at the company store.
Died of black lung disease.
A horrid way to make a small living.