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What? Hillary is totally promising jobs, it's one of the core planks of her "platform": https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/jobs/ https://www.hillaryclinton.

• smt88 10y ago
  She is, but it's not exactly the same. Where I grew up (Appalachia), there's already plenty of great infrastructure. There are, however, no industries to replace coal mining or steel production. It's literally impossible for Trump to bring those jobs back -- it's much cheaper to extract coal in the West, so there's little-to-no incentive for a for-profit corporation to build new mines in Appalachia. I did a social studies report in 6th grade on the topic, "What will replace coal in West Virginia?" Even then, we couldn't figure anything out. Nothing has changed. WV is the strongest state for Trump for that reason. Clinton can promise jobs in a general sense, but it's not what they want to hear. They want to hear someone offer them a time machine to 1960, when men could work in mines or manufacturing from his teens until he retired, and they knew their sons would be able to do the same.