Posted on 12/08/2012 8:01:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
HAZARD, Ky (WYMT-TV ) -- A local coal company in the mountains is laying off today.
Perry County Coal Corporation, owned by TECO Coal, laid off more than 150 workers today and released a statement attributing the layoffs to a weakening coal market. Below is the statement released by the company.
“Due to depressed market conditions, Perry County Coal Corporation is reducing staff levels at its operations in Hazard, Kentucky to match expected sales for the coming year.
On Friday, December 7, 2012, the company reduced its workforce by 156 positions, or 29 percent of the workforce at that location...
(Excerpt) Read more at wkyt.com ...
Merry Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka and Adios Amigos - Barack Hussein Obama
Yet somehow, the administration puts out numbers that say the sun is getting brighter, the birds are singing louder, and jobs are magically reappearing all over the place.
Obviously, things are a LOT worse then they're letting on. We're BORROWING 4.8 BILLION a DAY, and printing new paper at the rate of 4 BILLION a MONTH.
There is no U.S. economy. It's all fake. By the time the American people figure this out, the Obomas will be safely planted in their presidential bunker to wait it out while the thirsty, starving hoards fight over the resources that are still left above them.
“On Friday, December 7, 2012, the company reduced its workforce by 156 positions, or 29 percent of the workforce at that location”
I would be interested to know out of the 156 positions how many voted for Obama?
I’m sure there are lots of jobs in the Kentucky hollers making solar panels and putting biofuels in them ole boys pickem-ups.
...and chocolate ration increased from 25 grams to 22 grams
...”Merry Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka and Adios Amigos - Barack Hussein Obama”...
And, Merry Christmas to all of those who will see their electric bill skyrocket per the President’s plan to stop coal production.
They might be makin' "Biofuel." If they're putting it in their pickups, it's in jugs and not in their tanks.
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The coal miners need to head for fracking country.
King Coal demoted to serf by Czar Gas.
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