Rand Paul: Congress has no business protecting miners

[adamuu]

Source: The Hill

"The bottom line is: I'm not an expert, so don't give me the power in Washington to be making rules," Paul said at a recent campaign stop in response to questions about April's deadly mining explosion in West Virginia, according to a profile in Details magazine. "You live here, and you have to work in the mines. You'd try to make good rules to protect your people here. If you don't, I'm thinking that no one will apply for those jobs."

"I know that doesn't sound … I want to be compassionate, and I'm sorry for what happened, but I wonder: Was it just an accident?"

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/worker-safety/112133-rand-paul-congress-has-no-business-protecting-miners

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via ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/02/paul-mine-safety/

[mdmc]

1. Live Free and Die Rand

[Bluzmann57]

2. Total jackass

I apologize to all the jackasses out there. And it's hard to believe that Kentucky coal miners are going to vote for this guy with a statement like that.

[opihimoimoi]

4. goobermint is in the biz of protecting its citizens thru laws n codes

we cannot rust the biz owners ...can we??

[BrklynLiberal]

3. What the hell is he talking about????????

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Yeah, the marketplace took such good care of miner safety in the past

Before the passage of the Mine Health and Safety Act.

And yet he's ahead in the polls.

[femrap]

19. You're kidding????

With all the miners in eastern KY, WTF?

Please...he can't go to the Senate.

[MikeW]

6. wow

I read the article in full ... I have to say I'm speechless.

wow ..... :banghead:

[thereismore]

7. I think he says, if the corporation does not protect its slaves, no slaves will volunter and the

corp will go out of business ... the invisible hand, etc.

[ck4829]

8. "Don't give me the power in Washington to be making rules."

First thing that he has ever said that actually makes sense. K&R.

[BootinUp]

15. lol nt

[Xolodno]

9. If he wins....

...can the country secede from Kentucky?

[w4rma]

10. Starve or commit suicide by taking a mining job? (nt)

[Blue Owl]

11. Come to think of it, I'm getting sick of those National Weather Service sirens

I don't need no stinkin' gubmint to tell me there's a tornado. It's just an accident.

:sarcasm:

[deathrind]

12. What...

Rand Paul.... taking us all the way back to 1911 and the Triangle fire.

Stay classy rand...

[bergie321]

13. So....

He doesn't want the government to regulate safety.
He doesn't want the government to provide a social safety net for unemployed workers.

He wants people to work in unsafe mines or starve to death in the streets.
Why doesn't he just come out and say that?

[BootinUp]

14. He thinks this is going to sell in Ky? nt

edit, I forgot what state the fool is in.

[arbusto_baboso]

16. Then I guess the Secret Service has no business protecting Rand.

After all, he should pull himself up by his own bootstraps, right?

[The_Commonist]

18. That's exactly what I was just going to say.

You beat me to it!

[ncteechur]

17. How in the hell is this guy a doctor of medicine? what a prick

[B Calm]

20. Congress has no business protecting murderous CEO's!

[walldude]

21. So what he's saying is the miners need a Union to properly represent them..

Or if you can't get a union going then FUCK YOU die for your employee.


You know what Rand? You are right, you are not an expert on anything but greed so shut the fuck up.

[donco6]

31. No one else is going to protect you

Does he even know what he's saying? Is he that big of an idiot? I thought Palin was bad . . .

[AnArmyVeteran]

22. He is EVIL

[sendero]

23. Keep talking you Libertarian moron..

... let your constituents know what a fucktard you are.

[livetohike]

24. Guess those ideas will go over great with his potential

constituents in KY mining country. Hope he loses in a landslide.

[muntrv]

25. That'll play well in KY.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. A repuke seat that will be a give-away to the Democrat thanks to this lunatic!!

:rofl:

[Walk away]

27. ....or not. nt

[fishwax]

28. wow, what a jerk

:puke:

[tuckessee]

29. Just like with his comments about mountain top mining....

....where he said "no one will miss a mountain or two", Paul is going to sink his own ship with his own big, idiotic mouth.:)

[donco6]

30. Let's go back to before the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

Shall we?

You know, to these people, human beings are just obstacles on the road to profit.

[Odin2005]

32. FUCK HIM!

[Hannah Bell]

33. nazi

[applegrove]

34. He's a monster.

[Javaman]

35. Insane paul, "The bottom line is: I'm not an expert".

therefore we should listen to asshole paul, why?