Miners rally for bill to protect health, pension

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON - Thousands of unionized mine workers and supporters rallied at the Capitol on Thursday to push for a bill that would protect health care and pension benefits for about 120,000 former coal miners and their families.

"We're here today to demand that the right thing be done!" thundered Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, which organized the rally. "Keep the promise and pass the bill."

Defying scorching 90-degree temperatures, Roberts and other speakers urged Congress to approve a measure they said would save lives and honor a 70-year-old promise made by the federal government. Marchers came from as far as Colorado and Nevada to demonstrate support for the bill, known as the Coal Miners Protection Act.

Separately, Democrat Hillary Clinton announced her support for the measure, which would affect retired miners and their families in all 50 states, especially West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia and Alabama.

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[maxrandb]

1. Am I the only one who is thinking

that these folks could get a hell of a lot more accomplished if they QUIT FUCKING VOTING FOR REPUBLICAN/CONSERVATIVE ASSHOLES?

This is some fucking Bizarro World shit right there. Fucking people from West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Alabama rallying to try to prevent the VERY FUCKING PEOPLE THEY PUT INTO POWER from screwing them with that power

This must be the most perfect example of Stockholm Syndrome I've seen in a while

[Loki]

2. No you're not.

Keep themselves in poverty and fighting for their very existence esp. in Kentucky when they elected someone who ran on dismantling Kinect because he called it Obama Care, one of the most successful adaptations of a state run Medicare expansion under the ACA and they elected him. Then cry when they start losing their benefits. 300,000 people in Kentucky. How do you measure stupid, you call it Obama Care and they believe the big lie. Kansas has been doing this for years, and they are reaping what they have sown.