I wonder how/if the states of these workers will reemploy them

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    Remember one of Trump’s first moves was to subsidize coal mines in west Virginia? Instead of paying for miners to retrain for a new skill with that money he kept an industry everyone knew was dying running. And everyone says “he’s a business man” no “business man” would keep an unprofitable industry in business.

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      German CDU did similar bullshit.

      They cut funding in renewables, costing those sectors >100k jobs to protect around 20k jobs.

      One might think it wasn’t about jobs at all, but that sweet sweet lobby money

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        Hey you forgot we were also leaders in those fields technology wise. And iirc they only protected only 10k jobs.

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          Leaders in lobbyism coughlegal briberycough?

          Yeah i think the 20k was an estimate of a total of jobs in the affected sector, not all of which would be cut? I’d have to look into the source again but yeah, it was pretty clearly cxu bullshit.

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            No actual leaders our solar panel industry was quite good afaik. And of of the day it doesnt matter if it was a 5:1 or 10:1 ratio bullshit is bullshit. And if you want to have high blood pressure look up who of the NRW Landtag espacially CDU has a job at RWE.

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      The same businessman who is such an utter business failure that he has resorted to declaring bankruptcy SIX times. Checks out.