I fully agree.
It just boggles my mind that it never seems to occur to such people:
THEY will suffer right along with us.
Some might be masochists who just don’t care, but all of them?
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And in more recent memory:
(The real reason I know about it at all, is that my friend got in an argument at a party*, and the other guy’s** comeback was “I’ve worked in coal mines, it’s not so bad…”)
*(in Austin, TX, among UT students, not in coal country)
**(age 18 or 19, like us, and probably not a former coal miner***)
***(he also claimed that Amy Grant touched his hand)
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FWIW I read that as “Sword of Shawarma.” (I’d already made an eye appointment)
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And clearly also hungry. 
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Obligs:
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She should still make a point of visiting a coal mining community, anyway; that puts her money where her mouth is, and it also hoists Rep Barr up on his on petard.
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I dropped out of UT! That’s a great school to drop out of.
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It’s really weird how the coal miners seem to have become firmly identified with the mine owners, who are their natural enemy #1, over some weird culture war stuff.
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Medicare is incomplete, you need private supplemental health plans too
In my experience, this is not quite true. Medicare has been great for me. I have no private insurance.
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