With regard to the tragic deaths of WV miners: Why do you Hate America?

[Inland]

All you people on DU think about these points:

1) Isn't that the job they signed up for?

2) Why won't the MSM cover all the mine operations that go safely?

3) There are plenty of miners that are proud of their jobs and will continue to do them, and we should focus on them.

4) Stop trying to make them into victims. They were doing a dirty, hazardous job and should be honored.

5) People who say that they wouldn't be coal miners insult miners and their families and will harm the coal mining industry.

6) Coal is critical to our economy and national security, and my desire for cheap electricity has absolutely nothing to do with my policy positions.

7) I have never been a coal miner or a miner of any kind, but I fully support the people who chose it as a job.

8) By "support", I don't mean any steps that might make the job safer and may cost money. I mean that I safely and inexpensively send my best wishes and hopes that they continue in a dirty, hazardous job.

9) By "cost money", I mean a cost to me. Or a multinational corporation, like Halliburton.

10) Why do you hate America?

11) Lurking Freeps: It's the Iraq war, stupid. 15 West Virginias have died in Iraq and you couldn't find one tenth of the concern or coverage of their lives. Instead, your repuke media and leaders fed us the equivalent of all of the above.

[rkc3]

1. Let's be clear on this:

I don't hate America, I hate freedom.

[Ezlivin]

3. And Christmas, too!

Burn all the creches.

[bunkerbuster1]

4. Me, I hate my "freedoms"

actually, I hate "freeance" and "peeance."

[Inland]

12. And I hate the "internets". nt

[wixomblues]

13. FREEDOM PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH!!!

I get so mad everytime I see it. Fortunately, under the wonder chimp, I don't see too much of it.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I don't understand what you mean?

Coal mining has always been a dangerous profession.
That is why there were unions put in place to ensure maximum safety of the miners. Those same unions that are being busted by this administration.
Take for instance the coal mining commercials a year ago--all the tanned, lean, healthy young bodies (men and women) trying to make it look glamorous.
The companies that run safe mines--great for them, great for their employees.
The companies that use their political clout to garner favors which include undoing laws put into effect for miners safety should be brought down with this illegitimate government we now have in place.
Workplace safety has to be the one thing we can count on because many do not have choices where they work--safety is only a fringe benefit to some.

[Bridget Burke]

5. Look up "sarcasm" in the dictionary.

It's not far from "satire."

[Horse with no Name]

7. Hard for me to say this am

After several days of this raging flu and high temps--I haven't had a voice for 3 days--my eardrum burst last night and is pouring bloody stuff--my head is in a fog, I wouldn't know satire from sarcasm.:shrug:
So sorry.

[Inland]

6. You have to get to no. 11 nt

[WhereThereIsFire]

14. Safer Coal

I guess no one has forgotten that Booosh, and his fat little brother in Florida, have touted "coal" as the fossil fuel of the future. :think: Only a few miles from my town, they've just voted "YES" to coal even though it is hazardous to the workers and to the residents of the community. I've visited mining towns in W. Virginia and have the utmost respect for the people who do this work ... it is dirty, tough, bone aching, muscle wrenching work ... and thank them that you have the electricity to light your life and power your computer. Until something better comes along ... this may not be the fuel of the future, but it is really important still to our infrastructure. They couldn't pay me enough money to do that work but it runs in families. A farmer may get killed in a piece of his machinery, a race car driver may be killed while in a race, and coal miners die in mines that have safety violations, but if they come from generations of family in that occupation, they just keep entering that work. Bless them. They make much of our quality of life possible.

[SidDithers]

8. Nicely done...

:applause:

Sid

[madrchsod]

9. i`ve worked with hot steel

in a steel mill and forge shops for most of my life and i thank god i wasn`t born a miner. god has a special place for those who go into the earth to earn a living and there is no place in heaven for those who own the mines..
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/txt.html
West Virginia Coal Mines

[Inland]

11. It's dangerous and out of sight.

Not just underground, but in rural areas.

Coal costs, in human and environmental terms.

[AzDar]

10. Workers...ANY worker, under this sham of an Administration,is endangered..

With a Secretary of Labor like Elaine Chao,who is consistently trying to ROLLBACK worker's rights and protections in place for decades,they haven't a chance. She has proven herself to be an enemy of the American Worker; be they coalminer, autoworker, or middle management employee.