Did you know your typical coal miner is one of America's most heavily armed civilians. We don't have enough troops and cops to force them back to work ~ and now that coal mining is so heavily mechanized, you have to know what you're doing ~ can't just go in there with a pick and shovel.
Here's the way I see it ~ if the House passes the Cap & Tax bill you'll start hearing rumbles of "coal strike". If the Senate passes it, you'll see a "coal strike".
Obama will attempt to use Taft Hartley to send the miners back to work, but picket lines formed by non-public employee union members will be thrown up and the UAW will ot cross the lines.
So why will the union guys strike? Turns out industry and commerce in this country depend on electricity, and there's simply not enough electricity without coal.
I think a couple of months taste of this in a long, hot, humid summer would be enough to bring about the social change we need.
While we are imagining futures, How’s this? Obama asks his union thugs to take one for the messiah and tell their unemployed UAW workers to go to the mines.