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Arianna Huffington Exploits Coal Mining Tragedy, Cries for Bigger Government
Newsbusters ^ | 04/14/10 | Anthony Kang

Posted on 04/14/2010 7:17:56 AM PDT by 198ml

The co-founder of progressive blog The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, has attributed the West Virginia mining disaster, along with virtually every other accident under the sun, as a direct result of small-government and corporate greed in the April 13 Huffpo column "The West Virginia Mining Disaster and the Financial Crisis Have the Same Root Cause."

"Officials say it's too soon to pinpoint the exact cause of the tragic explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia that took the lives of 29 miners, but we certainly know enough to identify the root cause," Huffington began. "It's the same cause that led to the 2006 Sago mine disaster in West Virginia that killed 12 miners. And it's also the same cause that led to the Lehman Brothers disaster, the Citigroup disaster, the bursting of the housing bubble, and the implosion of our financial system: a badly broken regulatory system."

"The economic collapse has not killed people, but it has gradually destroyed millions of lives. Both calamities occurred because elected officials who should have been creating a regulatory system that protects working families instead created a system that protects the corporations it was meant to watch over."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: ariannahuffington; biggovernment; bloggersandpersonal; coal; exploit
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1 posted on 04/14/2010 7:17:57 AM PDT by 198ml
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To: 198ml

This Liberal hypocrite should donate her entire fortune to the families affected by the coal tragedy. Liberals “never” put their personal money where their Liberal mouths are. Babs Streisand is a prime example of such a hypocrite. They want to take away from everyone else but themselves, e.g., Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein, Kerry, and the other millionaire hypocrites out to destroy our freedom.


2 posted on 04/14/2010 7:21:00 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: 198ml

what part of America was she born in?


3 posted on 04/14/2010 7:22:35 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: 198ml

When compared to daily black on black murders, the mining deaths are trivial


4 posted on 04/14/2010 7:22:40 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: 198ml

Looks like she’s been “huffing” on the houka a bit too much again


5 posted on 04/14/2010 7:24:15 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: 198ml

I’ll start taking Arianna seriously when she learns to speak English.


6 posted on 04/14/2010 7:25:33 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Arrogant, stupid and treasonous is no way to go through life, Barack.)
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To: 198ml

I am trying to figure out how this Greek transplant ever gained a platform for anybody to listen to her. Her only claim to fame is that she married a Gay Billionaire and divorced him for a pile of money.


7 posted on 04/14/2010 7:26:50 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: 198ml
This commie wench(Huffington) overlooks that communism mines FReedom and uses it as fuel to fuel the real people shredder.. Communism.. and obliquely progressivism..

The last century testify's to multiply-ed millions of the dead, dieing and miserable generated by Socialism.. i.e. Stalin, Mao, Po-pot, Marx, FDR..

Many don't know that Communism IS Socialism as was Nazism and Fascism.. and that The American SSI/SSA Social Security System is and has been PURE Socialism for a hundred years..

8 posted on 04/14/2010 7:33:17 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: 198ml
Open-pit mining will allow America to utilize its natural resources without the requirement of underground labor — with vastly reduced danger to employees. Ugly? No, it just looks industrial for a while. When the vein is exhausted, the pit can be filled again, and the surface can brought back to its natural state or made even more beautiful. It's a plan that will allow us to use our resources and offer safer employment to our citizens. Reclaimed land from open pits has nearly unlimited possibilities for lakes, parks, and recreation.
9 posted on 04/14/2010 7:34:32 AM PDT by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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To: SF_Redux

She was born in Greece


10 posted on 04/14/2010 7:40:01 AM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Promoted by God to be a mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...................Thanks, Susan!)
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To: MadelineZapeezda

and there you have it, she does not matter


11 posted on 04/14/2010 7:40:44 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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what part of America was she born in?

Dare I say, "The stupid part?"

12 posted on 04/14/2010 7:43:26 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

I don’t think she was born here, she is from Eastern Europe I think.


13 posted on 04/14/2010 7:44:32 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 198ml

The lady can’t even figure out which end of the political spectrum she wants to settle in. I believe that she is actually David Brock in drag.


14 posted on 04/14/2010 7:51:59 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Morgana

Check out this crap.


15 posted on 04/14/2010 8:07:16 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
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To: 198ml

Who cares what she thinks or wants.


16 posted on 04/14/2010 8:11:29 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: July4

So tell me where we will mine MET coal? Most of the met coal comes from underground mining.

Underground mining can and is being mined safely. There are mines last year that worked the whole year without even a lost time accident.

This is what I’m afraid of that the government will penalize the entire industry rather than focusing on the problem mines or companies.


17 posted on 04/14/2010 8:16:28 AM PDT by mmanager (I'm not racist, I don't like the white half of him either.)
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To: 198ml
Geeze...it's *gotta* be tough watching your husband leave you for another...man!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


18 posted on 04/14/2010 8:30:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: 198ml
Airanna; PLEASE go home. A 'collapsing' Greece, right now is perfect for you.. .

That said; does she even consider 'Union'? So what about the fricking union? Were 'they' complicit, somehow; enabling?

Why or why do communists come here? Why do they leave; and then want to create the degradation here; that so moved them to leave their home, in the first place. Just go HOME, Arianna. . .to your real home.

19 posted on 04/14/2010 8:47:00 AM PDT by cricket (We cannot allow t he 'man who would be king' to be one!as would no doubt other He said 'mainly we sp)
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To: 198ml

Progressive opts for bigger government what a unexpected suprise.


20 posted on 04/14/2010 8:47:47 AM PDT by Vaduz
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