{"id":2621,"date":"2011-01-27T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:09:56","slug":"the_unemployment_rate_is_above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"The Unemployment Rate Is Above 9 Percent And The Obama Administration Is Eliminating Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110127\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_mining_rules\">Yahoo News<\/a>&nbsp;posted an Associated Press story yesterday about the new regulations the Obama Administration is placing on the coal industry.&nbsp; According to the administration&#8217;s own experts, the new rules will cost thousands of jobs and slash production across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is replacing the Bush-era rules which set up buffer zones around streams and were aimed mainly at mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8221;Neither the environmental impact statement nor the administrative record that OSM has developed over 30-plus year of regulation &#8230; justify the sweeping changes that they&#8217;re proposing to make,&#8221; West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection official Thomas Clarke told the Associated Press on Wednesday. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had OSM technical people who are concerned with stream impacts and outside contractors for OSM who are subcontractors on the EIS give me their opinion that the whole thing&#8217;s a bunch of junk.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va, has said that he will do everything he can to block these new regulations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Manchin already plans to introduce legislation to curb the powers of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which recently vetoed a permit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had long ago issued for Arch Coal&#8217;s Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.&nbsp; To shut down or increase restrictions on&nbsp;the coal industry is not a wise move for the American economy, particularly during a recession.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is another example of the government picking economic winners and losers&#8211;which is not the job of the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News&nbsp;posted an Associated Press story yesterday about the new regulations the Obama Administration is placing on the coal industry.&nbsp; According to the administration&#8217;s own experts, the new rules will cost thousands of jobs and slash production across the country. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}