Two more miners die in Kentucky coal mine. How is this unbridled capitalism thing working out for us?
July 21, 2010 by
Filed under coal mine
Chasing profits has become more important that human lives in the coal fields. Is unrestrained capitalism capable of murder?
FAR more miners die in communist china every year than die in America.
Capitalism is doing a pretty darn good job of keeping the miners in this country safe and alive
China has the highest number of coal mining related deaths in the world, with official statistic 6,027 deaths in 2004.
Government controlled capitalism is not any better.
unbridled my @ss… your anti capitalist rant shows that you have NO clue how REGULATED the industry is, nor do you have any idea how the economy works… typical Marxist lib.
A more accurate statement is that the deaths are a failure of your precious GOVERNMENT oversight…
Its the American way get used to it. when big business takes over then no one will have rights
lol ok Obama…
just like healthcare is going to save the lives of anyone over 80…
It is in no way unrestrained capitalism.
Today more than twenty people died on the job while driving for their company. Should companies make their employees walk?
a lot more people have died in communist coal mines this year alone becuse the state owned the mines and no reason to pay attntion to mine safty. If your problem is not with private property but technology please go to a cave in the woods and stop using the computer. The truth is no matter what safty precausions are taken people will always die.
Capitalism is fine. Sadly, these things happen as mining coal is a dangerous job. However, that doesn’t mean they couldn’t be avoided. Back during the Bush administration, the Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao is largely to blame. The Bush administration had abolished a lot of safety regulations which was the leading cause of the collapse and scandal in West Virginia.
Capitalism is fine, it’s great, however you do need regulations. Regulations are there to help protect the people. If it wasn’t for regulations, there would still be lead in paint, there would be no FDA which means food and drugs could go on the shelves that were poisonous to us. Regulations are necessary, and it’s sad to see that the Republicans of today would rather see all the regulations that have been established over the past 100 years to be abolished.
See what their greed for money has done
Those two miners you mentioned, they were two more people dead from coal mining than have died in the USA from nuclear accidents in our entire history of using nuclear power.
Greenpeace and the Birkenstocks bozos who hate nuclear power but can never give a coherent reason why . . . they killed those two miners and many others besides.
I was unaware capitalism was unbridled. Have you been sniffing glue lately?
You use electric power. How do you suppose is produced?