Obama launches sweeping federal mine safety review..another mess we have to clean up

[Peacetrain]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100415/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_mine_safety

"WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama ordered an exhaustive federal review of coal mine safety Thursday and asked Congress to strengthen existing laws "riddled with loopholes."

"I refuse to accept any number of miner deaths as simply a cost of doing business," Obama told reporters in the Rose Garden, vowing to step up scrutiny of coal mine safety standards in the aftermath of the April 5 explosion at a Massey Energy Co. mine in West Virginia where 29 miners were killed."

[Dappleganger]

1. Capitalism, States--this is why the Federal Government has to be the grownup.

You just won't do it on your own, so somebody has to step up and protect the workers!

[Kdillard]

2. Good k and r.

[Arkana]

3. Personally I'd rather he put the CEO of Massey Energy in front of a firing squad,

but this will work too.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Considering corporations claim to be "persons" now

I don't see any reason why Massey Energy shouldn't be prosecuted for mass murder, and sentenced to the harshest penalty allowed under West Virginia state law. And if that's the death penalty, so be it.

I wouldn't shoot the son of a bitch though. I'd throw him in an abandoned mine shaft, and then collapse it on top of him. Let the punishment fit the crime.

[chill_wind]

4. Desperately needed! K & R. n/t

[Cha]

5. Good,