Reply #86: If you are going to keep posting to me, get your facts in order.

[Cleita]

I deliberately chose the Codelco mines as an example because I intimately know a lot about them. I also know that mining is a dirty and destructive business, but as long as there is a demand for the minerals and ores in the earth, they are going to be mined. I think that the people of those nations should benefit from those resources, not private domestic and foreign companies. The people should also be able to demand the safest, most ecological way of doing it. You know when I spent that summer in the Labor Relations office, in the Chuquicamata mine, I talked to the Chilean union leaders a lot, while they were waiting to see the boss. They were the ones who taught me about unionization and the push to nationalize the national resources of that country. They convinced me that it was the thing to do.

Now about WVA. You have a champion, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. who has lamented exactly about what you are talking about the removal of mountain tops in your state, destroying the forests and polluting all your waterways and he's trying to change things but he can't do it without the support of the people of WVA. If you want to change things, bring back the unions no matter how hard it is and start voting for some progressive Democrats in your state who give a fuck about the working people and the mountains and forests of your state. Otherwise, you have been spouting exactly the same talking points that Rush Limbaugh and all of the Fox News commentators cackle on about. You know that they are bought and paid for by the same corporate interests who are destroying your state.