Like anyone here would give up their internet for an hour a day to enhance mine safety. News Flash: your computer runs on coal!

this is small potatoes compared to Iraq . . . no suprises . . . the biggest surprise is that will all the evidence available about the chimpo and the big dick pelosi still won't put impeachment on the agenda . . .

Hummmmmmm, next time I get a speeding violation I want to be sure I can drive away and not have to worry about paying the safety citation. I'm sure it won't be noticed within 18 months!
This whole article causes more questions than it answers. The first one and the biggest one concerns the man in KY. They get a safety violation and no fine because the supervisor didn't know how to stop the bleeding??? What the hell are they thinking. Silly question, obviously no one is thinking. Why isn't someone asking why his legs were severed in the first place?

And another thing....I can't remember exactly the amounts for specific violations. I have seen them some where and I do remember they were disgracefully low amounts. But I do remember they were quite a bit higher than a speeding ticket. So if no violations were being paid, SHOULDN'T SOMEONE HAVE NOTICED THE DOLLAR AMOUNT COMING IN WAS A LITTLE SHORT?

4,000 violations, no shit? we bloggers have been bitching about this kind of stuff for 3 yrs at least.

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The problem is whether or not the dems will appoint anyone who will do anything about or....as expected they won't do a damned thing to upset the profit applecart of the corporations who fund their elections?

Edwards needs to hold on and hold out for appointment to whatever the position is that takes care of interior problems and not secstate.

Or else Gore can come to our rescue and get off his ass and run for the presidency he deserves and America deserves.

BUT if you notice the dems now in charge haven't done shiite about any of the Chimp's violations of ANYTHING.

Not one damned thing...so what makes anyone thing things are going to be any different under a dem president if Hill or Obambi is elected?

Or GOD FORBID McCain who will just keep pissing on America like Shrub has.

Coal miners have always been treated like throwaway workers. Usually those jobs are in areas that depend on them for any kind of decent wage and if one miner is killed, there's more standing in line.

I was born and reared in a coal mining town in Kentucky. I can tell you about the horrors this country has turned its back on when it comes to miners. One of Bush's first acts was to sign legislation to immediately roll back several safety provisions. He isn't the only president to ignore the dangers but he made it his priority.

Now, federal laws have been pushed away concerning mountaintop removal that is a disgrace but nobody in the U.S. seems to be paying any attention to what is being done.

I suppose mountain people who are still very much the butt of jokes and stereotypical judgment "deserve" their homes being destroyed, their ground water polluted and the air so full of particles that men, women and children are suffering greatly due to lung problems.

It's all done in the name of coal mining but what it should be called is a national disgrace.

Bush whines about poor Mexico. If you want to see American poverty in full bloom, go to the coal mining towns in Appalachia and see the mountains that are no longer there and the shuttered deep mines. When does a little caring about people in this country make news ?

MSM: "Mr. Bush, what do you plan for your Presidency"?

MR.BUSH:, I plan to throw the Nation off a cliff"

MSM: "Yeah, I can see how you'd wanna do that, goffer it dude"

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Why is common public knowledge of the Bush administration's disregard for the safety and well being of workers treated as some kind of a news item?
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It'd be interesting to see how many violations were winked at during other administrations. While these numbers are awful, they'd have more impact under comparison.

One thing not ignored by Bushies: ABC might be fined 1.4 million for showing a woman's buttocks. Yet Bush will walk away from these safety violations completely unscathed. Ridiculous.

I am not surprised. Part of the untold story here is, how many of the civil penalties go uncollected? If the fines arn't paid, they are merely paper.

Bush hates American mine workers because:

1) They're union;

2) Many of them vote Democratic;

3) They work for a living;

4) They're Americans.

and just like every other violation ignored, or violation of laws that the Bush administration is famous for, what the hell will be done about it??

Nothing.

Democrats either wont do anything but make a lot of a PR rants over things.
Republicans wont touch it.
The justice department just wont do anything.
And the people will continue to support and elect these same Aholes to congress and the presidency time and time again.. I hate to think this, but I think we actually like this, and more likely deserve it for our voting actions.

This is just par for the course. This administration has been all about enriching industry leaders at the expense of workers. Trickle down...more like trickle on.

The term "Fox guarding the hen house" comes to mind.