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Thanks. :-)

[mewzilla]

Re: The miners. Here's an interesting little factoid. ICG's Wilbur Ross was appointed by Bubba to some post. From this link:

He was appointed by former President Bill Clinton to the Board of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund and served as privatization adviser to New York City’s former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

[Bahbah]

LOL. The caller doesn't know what he's talking about, and neither do I.

[MNJohnnie]

Hey CALLER. How do you KNOW the accusations are factual? How do you know the Dinasour Meida didn't get THIS wrong too?

[PogySailor]

Oh boy, here's a caller with a conspiracy theory that mining accidents have been covered up "over the past few years". OK, Bush's fault I guess.

[mewzilla]

Re: The miners.From this link:

Ross doesn't hesitate to extract any advantage he can in Washington. A longtime giver to Democratic candidates, he was a major fund-raiser for Bill Clinton, but his pragmatic side has him courting the opposition at the moment. These days, he's down in Washington every week to argue his view on trade and the need to protect American jobs. With their eye on next year's election, lawmakers and the political staff at the White House have welcomed meetings with Ross. He has put together something called the Free Trade for America Coalition. With 70-odd members, the protectionist group ranges from labor unions to corporations to agricultural interests and is a formidable lobbying machine. He likes to portray himself as helping to publicize a groundswell of popular discontent at the demise of American manufacturing. But make no mistake: He expects WL Ross to profit. "We are not," he assures, "an eleemosynary institution."