[Vision2020] Aggressive Audit of Poor Par for Course (Molly Ivins)

[Pat Kraut]

And of course it is all Bushs' fault. Didn't happen before and when he is no
longer in office it won't be a problem anymore!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
To: <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Aggressive Audit of Poor Par for Course (Molly
Ivins)


Phil,

Other than disputing your contention that the miners all loved their work -- 
I think that you might find that not to be the case if West Virginia were
flush with other employment opportunities -- I really can't talk much about
mining.  The point of my post was Ivins' development into the
Bush-encouraged IRS and its picking out and picking on poor people.

You know a lot more about mining than I do, but I bet you and I could both
agree that perhaps the greatest example of graft, corruption and greed in
the United States is not to be found among those families earning just at or
below the poverty line -- but they sure make a hell of a target, don't they?

Take care,

keely


From: "Phil Nisbet" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Aggressive Audit of Poor Par for Course (Molly
Ivins)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:31:40 -0800

Keely

All I have to do is read Molly's routine that turns Miners into demons to
stop bothering with getting further.  Her standard is to pick somebody and
dehumanize them while singing a soft song for somebody else.

MSHA has a dual mission.  They have to do mine inspections, but they also
are the only ones left who can also carry out the work of the Bureau of
Mines.  They are not the enemy.

The coal companies are trying to mine and sell coal to the power industry
for turning out electrical energy.  They fight to keep costs down so that
the consumers do not pay higher electric bills.  They pay their workforce
higher wages than most industrial jobs do, for what is a very hazardous
profession.  They are not the enemy.

Miner's love their jobs, which is why they work in an industry with such
high hazards.  Its a job that has a built in culture very different than
that on the street.  Its why the older miners would give their self rescuers
to keep the young guy alive.  They are not the enemy.

Not one of the people involved in that tragedy was a stooge.  They were all
hands who knew the risks and did a job that others find distasteful or
frightening.  They are not demons from hell, bent on destroying the
environment or dollar hungry slime balls uncaring about worker safety.  No
doubt Molly typed her report on a computer powered by the coal that those
men dug, but instead of celebrating their lives and the gift that their
labor gave her, she terms their culture one of stooges.

She can never know the generosity of those miners, guys who will give their
last dollar to worthy causes with nothing more than a shrug.  She will never
be as close as a team working on a face to any other person she knows.
Molly's worse fear is a paper cut on the job, not the clear understanding
that one day the rock with your name on it is going to get you.

Mine safety is better now than it has ever been and hopefully it will get
better still.  But mining will always be a risky job, as anything involving
millions of tons of rock and high explosives and heavy machinery is bound to
be.  And there will always be men and women who love the work and are
willing to do it for the resources that you all enjoy.

Phil Nisbet
Just another stooge I guess, Molly Ivers told me so.

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