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Less enforcement is seen at mines (Bush's Fault)
HoustonChronicle ^
| Jan. 6, 2006, 10:33PM
| SETH BORENSTEIN,, LINDA J. JOHNSON and LEE MUELLE
Posted on 01/07/2006 5:03:56 AM PST by cbkaty
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Hmmm...Bush's fault....
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:03:59 AM PST
by
cbkaty
To: cbkaty
right after the breaking news about the explosion i told my husband it would be President Bush's fault. these people are really pitiful...and i hope the people that have been listening to them start to wake up!
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:06:29 AM PST
by
ferri
(Be Politically Incorrect: Support the Constitution!)
To: cbkaty
WASHINGTON - Since the Bush administration took office in 2001, it has been more lenient toward mining companies facing serious safety violationsThis is getting tiresome. I mean, to the point where I would become seriously irritated if I actually heard a liberal imply this in front of me.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:08:06 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: cbkaty
From
this link on ICG's Wilbur Ross:
Ross doesn't hesitate to extract any advantage he can in Washington. A longtime giver to Democratic candidates, he was a major fund-raiser for Bill Clinton, but his pragmatic side has him courting the opposition at the moment. These days, he's down in Washington every week to argue his view on trade and the need to protect American jobs. With their eye on next year's election, lawmakers and the political staff at the White House have welcomed meetings with Ross. He has put together something called the Free Trade for America Coalition. With 70-odd members, the protectionist group ranges from labor unions to corporations to agricultural interests and is a formidable lobbying machine. He likes to portray himself as helping to publicize a groundswell of popular discontent at the demise of American manufacturing. But make no mistake: He expects WL Ross to profit. "We are not," he assures, "an eleemosynary institution."
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:09:58 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: mewzilla
BTW, has anyone else noticed that CNN's expert on all things mining-related is a guy from the UMW, one Dennis O'Dell. Gee, no bias there, eh?
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:11:06 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: cbkaty
"Those statistics show that in 2005, the agency issued 4 percent more violation notices for all mines than it did in 2000 and that the number of coal mine violations issued increased by 18 percent. The agency also touted a 13 percent increase in "significant and substantial" violations."
These are the actual and relevant facts, but they are put at the end of the article and are then immediately discounted by two partisan sources, with no comment from a representative from the agency itself.
This is an obvious hit piece, with the conclusion written before any research was done. Sickening.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:12:04 AM PST
by
Ninian Dryhope
("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
To: mewzilla
Sadly...the constant anti-Bush drumbeat seems to be taking a toll....
The good news is the demo-dopes are the most rabid and many are just too stoned to vote.... Bwahahahahahaha
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:15:29 AM PST
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: Ninian Dryhope
This is an obvious hit piece, with the conclusion written before any research was done. Sickening. If it makes it into the Houston Comical...it's a hit piece...I assure you.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:16:51 AM PST
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: cbkaty
It's Bush's fault... Rush Limbaugh predicted this mine incident would be somehow blamed on Bush by the libs and co... behold! the prophecy has come to fruition! lmao... this is getting ridiculous... whine whine whine
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:18:49 AM PST
by
Cinnamon
To: Cinnamon
I worked in coal mine operations in the 1980s and can tell you MSHA gives no slack on mine safety. The inspectors are professional, hardworking, dedicated your appeal is to their bosses at the Department of Labor, so you've got to watch your language.
I don't, however, understand how this particular mine was allowed to operate with so many violations. New ownership doesn't make any difference in enforcement. MSHA rates your fines on the history of violations, among other factors. The more you get, the more they cost and a lot of them can lead to a Cessation Order, which means coal mining stops.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:25:29 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Don't buy Bose. Their warranty is no good.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
this mina had already been cite for hundreds of violations right? is it possible this negligence leading to the up to the accident was part of the local miner culture?
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:28:41 AM PST
by
Cinnamon
To: cbkaty
barf alert. No mention of getting government off the backs of energy producers so they can make a reasonable profit and provide much needed power to America.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:30:09 AM PST
by
balch3
To: balch3
I also heard a stat recently, maybe from Limbaugh, that more journos than miners have been killed this year.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:31:11 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: cbkaty
BostonBlackie just posted this.
Coal mine production reached the highest levels in history in recent years. In 2004 coal mining fatalities were near the lowest level in history with 28. Even with the recent high production, MSHAs accident reduction efforts helped to keep the annual fatality totals nearly 50% lower in recent years compared with totals recorded in the early 1990s.
1. Clintons last year in office, 2000, there were 48 deaths in coal mines. In 2004, there were 28
2. The injury rate in 2000 was 6.64, in 2004 it was 5.00
3. Citations for safety violations in 2000: 58,285; Citations for violations in 2004: 64,635 (this would indicate to me more rigorous enforcement under Bush, especially after having cut back on coal industry enforcement jobs as the Democrats claim. Sounds to me like the Clinton administration was asleep at the switch)
(Excerpt) Read more at punditreview.com ...
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:32:32 AM PST
by
poobear
(Imagine a world of liberal silence!)
To: Cinnamon
I don't know. 240 in a year or even five years is a lot. We had 65 men, three dragline pits and a wash plant and never came close to this figure. I'd sure want to talk to the local MSHA inspector and ask why this place was allowed to operate at all.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:32:33 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Don't buy Bose. Their warranty is no good.)
To: Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; Jhoffa_; FITZ; arete; FreedomPoster; Red Jones; Pyro7480; ...
The budget and staff for the enforcement office also have declined. We need less regulations. We need to bring safety to the level of China for American workers to be able to compete.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:32:45 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(Thomas Jefferson: "We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation.")
To: cbkaty
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What took them so long? |
(I'm also waiting for Bush to be blamed for USC's loss in the Rose Bowl...)
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:33:36 AM PST
by
Fintan
(Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?)
To: A. Pole
"We need to bring safety to the level of China for American workers to be able to compete."
The one trick pony strikes again.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:36:58 AM PST
by
Ninian Dryhope
("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Maybe it has something to do with underground mining vs aboveground. I would think undrground is quite a bit more dangerous.
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posted on
01/07/2006 5:42:34 AM PST
by
balch3
To: cbkaty
This mine was in West Virginia, why wasnt old Byrd Turd looking out for his constituents? Has he so much as sent them a letter of condolence? I havent heard a word ,I guess he is practicing his fiddle playing.
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