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[ applause ] [ applause ] again, this is not radicalism. i want every kid in burlington, vermont, and mcdowell, west virginia, that if he or she studies hard and does well in school, that those kids will be able to go to a public college or university tuition-free. [cheers and applause ] and that transforms education because kids will say i will study and have an opportunity for a higher education regardless of the income of my family. so i think those are some of the goals that we should be striving for. let me just conclude by saying

The health care that they desperately need. [ applause ] >> so since you're working in the mines and coal is a boom bust business, folks agree with that, right? >> yes. >> times get good, people get flush, people get jobs, everyone goes under, right, comes back. there's always that sense that maybe it's going to come back. do you think that the president could get the mines opening again? can you imagine a future mcdole mcdowell where coal comes back the way it was in 1980? >> i hope it does. i don't know the future for coal mining but i know it would be a great future because like he said, am...

Miners that will lose his health care at the end of april if they don't pass that law. i come from local 1440 in a little town down the river where mcdowell's water goes to when it leaves mcdowell county and we're one of the largest locals in the uama, over 500 are retired and we look at things different and look at our health care and what we've already worked out. we're not going to mine any more coal. our coal mining days are over and we looked at -- to have the funds that we've worked for, that were promised to us taken care of. that's all we asked. and it's -- i think it's kind of ironic ...