By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--March 17, 2016
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In a letter to Manchin after the town hall, Clinton admitted that she had erred. “Simply put, I was mistaken in my remarks,” Clinton wrote in the letter dated March 15. She said that she meant to focus attention on the decline in coal jobs and the need to support coal miners. “I wanted to make the point that, as you know too well, while coal will be part of the energy mix for years to come, both in the U.S. and around the world, we have already seen a long-term decline in American coal jobs and a recent wave of bankruptcies as a result of a changing energy market — and we need to do more to support the workers and families facing these challenges.”
Clinton also said that she backed the Miners Protection Act, which guarantees “lifetime pensions and health benefits to retired miners and their families,” and promised Manchin that she would bring jobs to coal country. “I pledge to you that I will focus my team and my Administration on bringing jobs to Appalachia, especially jobs producing the carbon capture technology we need for the future,” she wrote.She was "mistaken"? What exactly is that supposed to mean? How do you vow to put people out of business and destroy their jobs, only to later realize, oh, gee, I meant something else? Besides, the last sentence of the excerpt basically affirms Hillary's hostility toward coal. When she says she's going to "focus on bringing jobs to Appalachia, especially jobs producing the carbon capture technology we need for the future," what she's really doing is repeating the Democrat article-of-faith that coal is dirty technology that needs to be done away with. Otherwise, she'd simply vow to expand coal mining jobs and be done with it.
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