States following Manchin on new mine safety rules
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The Bush administration has yet to act on a request from Manchin and West Virginia's congressional delegation that the new rules be adopted on a nationwide basis.
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Not surprised? Me neither. Kanye West was only partly right when he said George Bush doesn't care about black people. He should have said George Bush doesn't care about anyone who isn't a millionaire.
I've been fuming even more than usual since the Sago Mine accident. Why? Because the Bush administration is directly for responsible for those deaths. Bush, as he did with all his appointments, installed a repiglikkkan money man -- David Lauriski, - who refused to enforce the rules, gutted as many as possible and failed entirely to update the safety technology and procedures available to miners.
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According to the New York Times, MSHA under his direction
rescinded more than a half-dozen proposals intended to make coal miners' jobs safer, including steps to limit miners' exposure to toxic chemicals. One rule pushed by the agency would make it easier for companies to use diesel generators underground, which miners say could increase the risk of fire.
It took a full ten months for the White House to even nominate a replacement for Lauriski and the Senate has yet to act on his confirmation leaving the agency without a permanent director now for 14 months.
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Had the corporation that owns Sago - - actually been subject to federal regulation, actually been held accountable by federal regulators no one would have been underground that day in the first place.
Bush has gutted every agency, destroyed the people's guardian, regulatory function of each in order to enhance his wealthy corporate owner friends.
Stripping the federal government of all responsibility for regulation and human safety is an expression of the core philosophy of the ruling elite of the republican party.
They think everyone but themselves should get up by their own bootstraps, even if they're trapped in a coal mine.
This is part of their crazy Calvinist predestination god's grace psychosis, I suppose, though I suppose it only because I'm feeling generous this morning.
Yeah, they cry "every man for himself" except themselves since they mostly inherit or marry millions and consider themselves ordained by God to rule. You have to wonder what kind of mental illness creates such dissonance. And you have t notice the similarities between the religious warriors of the Christian right and Islamic Jihad.
In nay case the health and safety of others is not their problem, particularly if it stands in the way of profit.
The Japanese get this. That is why they have AGAIN stopped all imports of US beef. And of course we've seen what the repiglikkkan governing philosophy did to FEMA
The Bush administration has yet to act on a request from Manchin and West Virginia's congressional delegation that the new rules be adopted on a nationwide basis.
[...]
Not surprised? Me neither. Kanye West was only partly right when he said George Bush doesn't care about black people. He should have said George Bush doesn't care about anyone who isn't a millionaire.
I've been fuming even more than usual since the Sago Mine accident. Why? Because the Bush administration is directly for responsible for those deaths. Bush, as he did with all his appointments, installed a repiglikkkan money man -- David Lauriski, - who refused to enforce the rules, gutted as many as possible and failed entirely to update the safety technology and procedures available to miners.
[...]
According to the New York Times, MSHA under his direction
rescinded more than a half-dozen proposals intended to make coal miners' jobs safer, including steps to limit miners' exposure to toxic chemicals. One rule pushed by the agency would make it easier for companies to use diesel generators underground, which miners say could increase the risk of fire.
It took a full ten months for the White House to even nominate a replacement for Lauriski and the Senate has yet to act on his confirmation leaving the agency without a permanent director now for 14 months.
[...]
Had the corporation that owns Sago - - actually been subject to federal regulation, actually been held accountable by federal regulators no one would have been underground that day in the first place.
Bush has gutted every agency, destroyed the people's guardian, regulatory function of each in order to enhance his wealthy corporate owner friends.
Stripping the federal government of all responsibility for regulation and human safety is an expression of the core philosophy of the ruling elite of the republican party.
They think everyone but themselves should get up by their own bootstraps, even if they're trapped in a coal mine.
This is part of their crazy Calvinist predestination god's grace psychosis, I suppose, though I suppose it only because I'm feeling generous this morning.
Yeah, they cry "every man for himself" except themselves since they mostly inherit or marry millions and consider themselves ordained by God to rule. You have to wonder what kind of mental illness creates such dissonance. And you have t notice the similarities between the religious warriors of the Christian right and Islamic Jihad.
In nay case the health and safety of others is not their problem, particularly if it stands in the way of profit.
The Japanese get this. That is why they have AGAIN stopped all imports of US beef. And of course we've seen what the repiglikkkan governing philosophy did to FEMA
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