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The Article:<\/strong> After Obama reelection coal company CEO reads prayer to staff, announces layoffs<\/a> by Steven Mufson in The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

The Text:<\/strong> For the chairman and chief executive of Murray Energy, an Ohio-based coal company, the reelection of President Obama was no cause for celebration. It was a time for prayer \u2013 and layoffs.<\/p>\n

Robert E. Murray read a prayer to a group of company staff members on the day after the election, lamenting the direction of the country and asking: \u201cLord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Murray also laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy, blaming a \u201cwar on coal\u201d by the administration of President Barack Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Murray Energy is the country\u2019s largest privately owned coal mining company, with about 3,000 employees producing about 30 million tons of bituminous coal a year, according to its Web site.<\/p>\n

The company was the subject of an article in the New Republic that said the company had forced miners to attend a Romney campaign speech in southeastern Ohio in August. Murray denied the account. The New Republic also reported that Murray Energy employees have given more than $1.4 million to Republican candidates for federal office since 2007.<\/p>\n

Murray has also been a target of environmentalists. Notably, the company has spilled coal slurry into a creek on seven different occasions.<\/p>\n

Murray\u2019s prayer from Wednesday first appeared on the Web site of the Intelligencer \/ Wheeling News-Register. The newspaper said Murray had supplied his text. The Post confirmed its legitimacy with a company spokesman, Gary M. Broadbent.<\/p>\n

Here is the full text of the prayer:<\/p>\n

Dear Lord:<\/p>\n

The American people have made their choice. They have decided that America must change its course, away from the principals of our Founders. And, away from the idea of individual freedom and individual responsibility. Away from capitalism, economic responsibility, and personal acceptance.<\/p>\n

We are a Country in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom.<\/p>\n

My regret, Lord, is that our young people, including those in my own family, never will know what America was like or might have been. They will pay the price in their reduced standard of living and, most especially, reduced freedom.<\/p>\n

The takers outvoted the producers. In response to this, I have turned to my Bible and in II Peter, Chapter 1, verses 4-9 it says, \u201cTo faith we are to add goodness; to goodness, knowledge; to knowledge, self control; to self control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness; to godliness, kindness; to brotherly kindness, love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build. We ask for your guidance in this drastic time with the drastic decisions that will be made to have any hope of our survival as an American business enterprise.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Article: After Obama reelection coal company CEO reads prayer to staff, announces layoffs by Steven Mufson in The Washington Post. The Text: For the chairman and chief executive of Murray Energy, an Ohio-based coal company, the reelection of President Obama was no cause for celebration. It was a time for prayer \u2013 and layoffs. 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