I am sick of the Tiger Woods shenanigans, but if I were Woods, I would tell Augusta National Chairman Billy Payne to kiss my humpin' ass! It is none of little Billy's freaking business what Tiger does when he isn't on his beloved Amen Corner golf course. Jerk! Leave this shit alone and the media will soon find someone else play with.
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I don't know what physically happened to cause the latest mine disaster in West Virginia, but I suspect the mine owner(s) are to blame for the most part. This will end up as another victory for carefree capitalism and another setback for individual and collective freedoms in the USA. When I worked there in the 1970's, WVa was one of the strongest pro-union states in the nation, particularly in the construction and mine industries. It was (and maybe still is) a closed shop state, meaning that if a place of employment had collective bargaining with a union, all affected employees must join the union and pay dues. Like most other places now, money rules and people die. Can't blame it all on business; the citizens of the USA allowed it to happen and it wasn't through their ignorance. The Fed Chairman whom pulled us out of the seventies inflation warned it could happen with Reaganomics, but we were putting some nice extra dollars in our pockets and paid the futurists little attention. We didn't stop to realize that those dollars were coming from a two wage-earner household whereas in previous times a man could support his family with his single paycheck. We allowed the things we could buy blind us to the reality that we were turning over the lifeblood of the nation to big business via lack of government oversight. When we think of these unfortunate coal miners and their distraught families, remember we are as much to blame as are the big businesses whom profit from our own greed. There will be no better time than right now while this disaster is making almost as big of headlines as is Tiger Woods and while we have a president whom at least is willing to listen and has sympathy for worker's plight and rights. The strongest dam in the river of worker's rights is state governments along with the US Congress and US Supreme Court; all are owned by greedy capitalists.
Mark wrote a good mini-exposé in his blog.
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*tarradiddle: lie; falsehood; nonsense; fib
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I am having a drizzly Thursday; I hope yours is a happy one!
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I don't know what physically happened to cause the latest mine disaster in West Virginia, but I suspect the mine owner(s) are to blame for the most part. This will end up as another victory for carefree capitalism and another setback for individual and collective freedoms in the USA. When I worked there in the 1970's, WVa was one of the strongest pro-union states in the nation, particularly in the construction and mine industries. It was (and maybe still is) a closed shop state, meaning that if a place of employment had collective bargaining with a union, all affected employees must join the union and pay dues. Like most other places now, money rules and people die. Can't blame it all on business; the citizens of the USA allowed it to happen and it wasn't through their ignorance. The Fed Chairman whom pulled us out of the seventies inflation warned it could happen with Reaganomics, but we were putting some nice extra dollars in our pockets and paid the futurists little attention. We didn't stop to realize that those dollars were coming from a two wage-earner household whereas in previous times a man could support his family with his single paycheck. We allowed the things we could buy blind us to the reality that we were turning over the lifeblood of the nation to big business via lack of government oversight. When we think of these unfortunate coal miners and their distraught families, remember we are as much to blame as are the big businesses whom profit from our own greed. There will be no better time than right now while this disaster is making almost as big of headlines as is Tiger Woods and while we have a president whom at least is willing to listen and has sympathy for worker's plight and rights. The strongest dam in the river of worker's rights is state governments along with the US Congress and US Supreme Court; all are owned by greedy capitalists.
Mark wrote a good mini-exposé in his blog.
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*tarradiddle: lie; falsehood; nonsense; fib
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I am having a drizzly Thursday; I hope yours is a happy one!
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3 comments:
I read your last remarks attentively. Mine disasters are also in Poland. I'm sorry that it happened in West Virginia.
Of course, I do not want to judge American social problems, but in my country also usually two persons must work (wife and husband) to have enough money for supporting family. There is much higher level of life in such countries like France or Germany. Well, they received a big help from USA after the 2. world war (Marshall Plan); we, Poles, not. At the same time we were forced to introduce a communism in our country. If someone protested, such person was imprisoned, taken to court ad hoc, and usually killed.
Sorry for my sad remarks, my friend.
Oh, we had rather nice Thursday in Warsaw (it’s 7.30 pm now). :-)
Hi Jola,
A big part of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal miners are of Polish and German roots.
I didn't realize you knew of the Marshall Plan; the aftermath of WWI that lead up to WWII taught the US a lesson. But I feel we did let Eastern Europe down by allowing the Soviet takeover. To stop it would have meant more war, and I suppose Americans were tired of war. I know the communist oppression was severe and inhuman, but Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians can be proud that you did much to cause fall of of the Soviet Union. Freedom never comes freely.
Your "sad" remarks are always welcome, my friend. :-)
Well Tiger is still in the hunt and I for one am glad. It would be great if he won this weekend then it would be like flipping the bird to all the people trying to bring him down.
I feel sorry for how the miners and their families have been treated by the mining industry and the government throughout the years. Heck even the union has had all whole lot of corruption and it is always the miners who suffer. This mine should have been closed and made to fix all the problems it has had. Nothing really gets fixed until miners die and that is very sad at best.
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