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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Wed Mar 4, 2015, 08:24 PM Mar 2015

The Demolition of Workers' Comp

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-demolition-of-workers-compensation?google_editors_picks=true

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DENNIS WHEDBEE’S CREW WAS RUSHING to prepare an oil well for pumping on the Sweet Grass Woman lease site, a speck of dusty plains rich with crude in Mandaree, North Dakota.

It was getting late that September afternoon in 2012. Whedbee, a 50-year-old derrickhand, was helping another worker remove a pipe fitting on top of the well when it suddenly blew.
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The Demolition of Workers' Comp (Original Post) LiberalElite Mar 2015 OP

This is a very important part of the Koch Brothers agenda, destroying any and all NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #1

Yup. They're like termites eating away at our foundation LiberalElite Mar 2015 #2

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)

1. This is a very important part of the Koch Brothers agenda, destroying any and all

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 08:28 PM

Mar 2015

situations where any government entity or mandated policy takes care of people.

I was unaware of what is in the article at Propublica ..

This is huge and more people need to be aware of it.

TeaParTY aka Koch Brothers is at war with Americans, of that you can be sure.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

2. Yup. They're like termites eating away at our foundation

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 08:30 PM

Mar 2015

one day the whole thing will collapse in dust and people will say "what happened?"

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