What's the death of a few miners compared to corporate profits...?

bushco has made it clear from the very start, if you're a working stiff or, worse yet, poor, you deserve your fate cuz if you really had what it takes, you would be on top of the pile, not the bottom, and you certainly wouldn't be poor...

Federal safety officials, faced with the death of two more West Virginia miners, are asking the coal industry to "stand down for safety" tomorrow to check the nation's mines for lethal working conditions. This smacks of public relations more than worker protection. The safety agency, notorious for its political appointees from the coal industry, is also suddenly finding more inspectors for West Virginia, which has suffered 16 miner deaths recently.

The tragedies have laid bare the passivity and pro-industry bias in the Bush administration's stewardship of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Last month, the chief of the now-galvanized agency cavalierly announced more pressing business and walked out of a Congressional hearing into the initial West Virginia deaths, even as shocked lawmakers still had key questions unanswered.

social darwinism at its finest...

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