sucked for buggy whip and typewriter manufacturers, too. What we can do is help people move on to other needed industries with job retraining and employer incentives (nuked by the GOP). But in fact, who really wants to go into the ground and dig coal for a living? People wanting their kids to grow up and do something different with their lives is an axiom for industries and communities dependent upon one industry. My dad grew up poor on a farm in Arkansas. He couldn't wait to get out of there and used the Navy and the GI Bill to do it. We can help displaced miners do the same.