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Clinton is the very disaster she’s told us to watch out for

Hillary Clinton as president would not only be bad for America and bad for Pennsylvania — She would be a catastrophe for our region as well.

Clinton and her mentor on energy issues, President Barack Obama, have convinced many Americans the only real victims will be coal miners and their communities. That certainly is bad enough in our state.

But the impact on consumers would be even worse. The cheapest way to generate electricity is by burning coal. If Clinton has her way, many Pennsylvania families’ electric bills will go up.

Jobs will be lost, too. No other state uses more coal for industrial purposes. Pennsylvanians by the thousands will get pink slips courtesy of Clinton, if she is elected.

Our state is the center of the shale drilling industry, which produces huge amounts of cheap natural gas and new supplies of oil. Shale drilling has the potential to free us from dependence on foreign oil.

Clinton is on record in desiring severe new limits on shale drilling. That will cost jobs both in drilling and manufacturing.

But energy policy is only part of the problem with     Clinton:

¯She wants big new taxes on job creators and middle-class families.

¯Clinton wants to expand Obamacare, increasing health insurance costs even more.

¯Once all in favor of trade deals such as the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, she now claims to be a champion of protecting U.S. jobs against foreign predators. Need we remind readers that before she and husband Bill went to the White House, they promised to protect the steel industry? And what about key manufacturing employers like Case New Holland, Mann Edge Tools, or Kardex?  Where are they now?

¯Honesty counts. Clinton has been caught in scores of lies.

¯Her stewardship of foreign policy while secretary of state from 2009-13 was a disaster. Terrorism in the Middle East exploded, figuratively and literally. She and Obama snubbed our closest ally, Israel, while doing virtually nothing to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

¯Americans’ personal liberties, particularly those guaranteed by the Second Amendment, mean nothing to Clinton. More powerful government is her goal.

¯To pursue it, Clinton actually brags that she will pack the U.S. Supreme Court with ultra-liberal justices who support her policies, not the Constitution.

At another time, Clinton would have no chance at all of winning the presidency. Now, however, she hopes to win through scare tactics.

Pennsylvanians — especially those in the Juniata Valley who would be hurt most by a Clinton presidency — should not fall for it. Electing her would be the very disaster she claims to be warning us to watch out for.

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