vow to put a lot of coal miners 'out of business' was a 'mis

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Clinton: My vow to put a lot of coal miners 'out of business' was a 'misstatement'

By T. Becket Adams

Hillary Clinton said Monday that it was a "misstatement" when she claimed earlier this year that she would put "a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."

The moment occurred after coalminer named Beau "called out" Clinton at a roundtable event in West Virginia for her earlier remarks on the coal industry.

"I just want to know how you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend, because those people out there don't see you as a friend," he said.

Clinton responded by saying, "I don't know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context from what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time, and I did put a plan out last summer."

"And it was a misstatement, because what I was saying is that, the way things are going now, you will continue to lose jobs. That's what I meant to say and I think that that seems to be supported by the facts," she added. "I didn't mean that we were going to do it, what I said was, that is going to happen unless we take action to try to help and prevent it. So I don't mind anybody being upset or angry."

Clinton boasted at a CNN town hall event in March that she has plans to boost the economy using clean energy resources.

"I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country," she said.

"Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," she said with a slight smile. "And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories."

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My Thoughts:

Hillary is one POS, that’s exactly what she said almost word for word, how anyone can interrupt something different any other way than what she said. How can she say she has been talking about helping coal country for a very long time and in the same breath say she’s going to close down their industry?

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I've said it before. By the time the treehuggers "bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country," (assuming, arguendo, that it is even possible) all those people she claims to be so concerned about will have either starved to death or become economic refugees and deserted their homes and heritage in order to keep from starving.

Talk is cheap. "Policies" are just talk.

What is REALLY going on here is that the progressives/socialists are doing to the coal regions what they did to the urban ghettos. They are laying waste to the economic (and therefore social fabric of their society so the can render them destitute and therefore dependent upon a government handout; unwilling and afraid to bite the hand that feeds them. More slaves for the liberal plantation.