If this is the case, then there is no reason for their creation. Of course, this is only if we measure results and ignore intentions. :)
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.I am posting this in FrontPage News, because the truth needs to get out and most people only see the horribly misleading headline, and never find out the reality.
Why isn't the headline: "Under President Bush, mining fatalities have been cut in half" -- which is buried inside the article.
The MSM makes it very clear that they prefer big fines for mines, instead of REAL safety and reduction of accidents.
Also note that the people who enforce safety are not appointed by the president and administrations have nothing to do with them.
Last night, in the middle of the night, I woke up to go to the bathroom. On the way there, I stubbed my toe. It was all bush's fault.
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BUSH IS BAD
Yesterday I went to work on time. Today I didn't have to go to work because it's Saturday.
It doesn't MATTER that deaths and injuries from mining accidents have been hovering at near record low levels, these three MSM pinheads have concluded that whatever happens down there is STILL Bush's fault. Un-freaking-believable!
This is just ridiculous.
Perhaps because Dubya hasn't actually done anything to improve mine safety.
Except, of course, to continue economic policies that shut down mines (such as outsourcing our steel industry).
Bump!!
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Coal Fatalities for 1900 Through 2004
Total Number of Coal Mining Fatalities from 1900 through 2004: 104,552 Please Note: Office workers included starting in 1973.
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[ cue liberal talking points ]
VERY FEW PEOPLE STILL HAVE JOBS THANKS TO THE BUSH ECONOMY.
THEREFORE, LESS JOBS = LESS ACCIDENTS.
IT'S HARD TO GET HURT ON THE JOB, WHEN YOU HAVE NO JOB.
[ \ liberal talking points ]
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..It's Bush's fault
"Mining is no longer the most dangerous industry in the United States."
Isn't Clinton Politics the most dangerous industry in the US?
That is just another example of how liberals can just say anything that comes to mind without a consideration of the facts.
Here is a link to the Mine Safety and Health Administration:
You can query all accidents and violations for any mine you like.
http://www.msha.gov/drs/drshome.HTM
My father has worked in the Mines of WV for 38 years, it is dangerous but it is getting safer all the time. He has experienced two accidents in all those years. One when a mining car break system went out going down a hill underground (he broke his knee jumping from the car) and another when an over zealous fellow miner sideswiped a coal wall with the mining car and my Dad's ribs were broken. He doesn't have black lung because he uses the respirators unlike many in the mines who look to cash in on their black lung benefits at the cost of breathing. (I've never understood this but that is the thinking). Those that wish to jump to conclusions about Mine safety often don't know what they are talking about, just as many who jump to conclusions about poverty in Appalachia. Tell me anywhere else where you can buy a starter house for 10-20,000 and it not be a total dump?
Sometimes I think liberals confuse having to do hard work to make a living with an indicator of poverty. My family has roots in the hills of WV going back more than 100 years having immigrated before the American Revolution from Britain and they survived well by farming and mining and though WV is not the most prosperous place you will find that around every corner is a patriot ready to help you out and pick up gun to do it if necessary.
It is my opinion having spent many years away from WV that people in most places have forgotten what freedom means and have exchanged their souls for chronic dependency in every part of their lives. Those in the mountains may not be rich but they know where they came from and they know the sacrifices their ancestors made to eke out a living and will still fight till the death defending their land and their personal sovereignty.
In their zeal to make their federal budget look attractive, the bastards Clinton and Gore shut down the US Bureau of Mines in 1995/6 because they said it was antiquated and had outlived it's usefulness.
This smells of Unions
The families IMMEDIATELY over reacted. Given the circumstances, this seemed fair at the time. I wasn't in their place... but to watch it, it felt like the media was showing the families as stupid bumpkins from WVA. The STORY and painting the mining company, the governor, and the president in a bad light is the newspaper's goal.
And, in the coming weeks, when more of the truth is known, the media will cover it less, and readers won't notice. They'll just remember the NEGATIVE spin, never the aftermath.
Did they ever think that the fines are lower because the violations are less severe?
Or maybe that there fewer violations that require fines?