Re: July 28 Charles Krauthammer column.
As a voter whose grandfather died of Black Lung Disease due to a lifetime of working in western Pennsylvania’s coal mines, I take issue with Charles Krauthammer’s column. Among other criticisms of Hillary Clinton, he states: “Telling coal miners she was going to close their mines and kill their jobs only reinforced white working-class alienation from Clinton.”
Krauthammer intentionally left out the rest of Clinton’s statement, which is that she is proposing help for people already experiencing declining coal jobs in America’s coal mining areas. She said, “I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.”
And last Nov. 12, Clinton announced a $30 billion plan aimed at “revitalizing coal communities.” The Clinton campaign’s website states: “Hillary Clinton is committed to meeting the climate change challenge as President and making the United States a clean energy superpower. At the same time, she will not allow coal communities to be left behind–or left out of our economic future.”
L. Highland, Morrison
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