MSNBC’s Ruhle: People Don’t Want Trucking Jobs or Coal Jobs

‘So are we looking at the right industries in terms of creating better paying jobs?’

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RUHLE: "But are we looking at the right ways to increase wages and improve jobs? I mean to say we’re going to end the war on coal. There’s not a war on coal. Whether it’s an environmental argument or an economic argument, it doesn’t make sense to be in that business. The president says we’re going to bring back trucking jobs. There’s a surplus of trucking jobs. People don’t want those jobs. So are we looking at the right industries in terms of creating better paying jobs?"
PUZDER: "Well, first of all, with respect to coal, there are a lot of things that are said in an election process. And I -- I don’t think the problem with coal was to bring back coal jobs, it was to stop killing coal jobs."

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