How Bush is covering up the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/11/13/slurry_coverup/index_np.html

Dirty business
How Bush and his coal industry cronies are covering up one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

... unfortunately.

I remember reading a decade or so ago that in the `70s, there were almost fifty mine safety inspectors in Kentucky alone. As with the banking industry, when Reagan couldn't get the regulations removed, he simply defunded the regulators. By the end of his second term, there were only two inspectors left in Kentucky, one of the worst areas of the country for mining-related non-compliance and illegal activities.

All Kentuckians ought to be outraged at the lack of oversight, but it's a strongly Republican state, and their economy is strongly linked to the coal business. *sigh*

Yes, Reagan was the corporations wet dream, as the right wing pig Reagan convinced idiot "moderate" asshole voters that deregulation was good for business, stimulated competition and hence would create more jobs and lower prices...the idiot moderates, along with the right-wing republicans pigs agreed and believed Reagan's bullshit corporate stance and republican lies, because these are greedy self serving cocksucking selfish swine...these moderates completely ignored consumer groups, environmental groups, liberal ideology and any kind of sound thinking, about letting these pig corporations (as well as the oil, coal, lumber and nuclear energy industries.) run wild, allowing them to police and monitor themselves. As if these greedy idiot moderates were concerned or even thinking about corporate monopolies, corporate pollution, corporate price fixing and collusion and extortion of the American public utilities, our airways and our natural resources of the highest order.

Enron was just a glance of what’s in store for this country as the fascist and the corporations gain more power and the American people have less say about regulations on these corporations, so in control of this country…unfortunately, this corporate nightmare has yet to reach it’s crescendo.

Best Reagan Rant I have read on DU. It was long past due. Thanks, Oracle. Did my old heart good.

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I trust corporations even less than the GOP-controlled gov't...Nothing but a license to steal; believe me...I had a short stint at Dow Jones Newswires, and almost every company played fast and loose with the end-of-quarter reports to keep the stock price up. No one even knows the truth until the company goes belly-up, like enron

on all the bullshit corporate reports...keeping stocks artificially high, sucking in idiot investors who just never seem to get the facts...that the market is manipulated and created to steal investors money, just like gambling at your favorite casino. Inflate the market, suck in idiot investors and when Bush steals the 2004 election, the market in 2005 will come tumbling down in favor of the rich, just as it did with pappy Bush in 1989 and the moron George in 2001 after he stole the 2000 election.

Why don't people fucking learn?

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ya sure can't tell by the smell of things when ya pass thru kentuck and tenn. , we just got back from a trip to al. and when we went thru these 2 states we could hardly stand the air we breath from the smell of this shit coal burning , how in the world do these people ever get use to the smell of this stuff , and what are there lungs looking like