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."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
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.
what part of America was she born in?
When compared to daily black on black murders, the mining deaths are trivial
Looks like she’s been “huffing” on the houka a bit too much again
I’ll start taking Arianna seriously when she learns to speak English.
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.
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..
She was born in Greece
and there you have it, she does not matter
Dare I say, "The stupid part?"
I don’t think she was born here, she is from Eastern Europe I think.
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.
Check out this crap.
Who cares what she thinks or wants.
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.
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.
Progressive opts for bigger government what a unexpected suprise.
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