[MR. Slate]

Coal is the only way. I myself was layed off at the beginnin of August. I wasn't a miner. I was a salesman for a drill supply company. I sold drill steel, drill bits, bit subs, top subs, deck bushings, etc. With the decline in EKY, companies shuttin down, cuttin hours back, and cuttin back on their spendin, they had no choice but to let me go.

As for the treehuggers, no they don't care about the families who are sufferin. The worst part about all of it, they don't realize that it's not just coal miners and their families. If they were to do away with MTD, it was also put companies like CAT, Komatsu, Atlas Copco and many more out of business.

Alot more business than that would shut down. Small businesses would not have a shot in Eastern Ky. I have been a small business owner in East Ky for 13 years and I am really seeing the effects of it right now. People just have the money to spend on necessary items.