Don Blankenship: It's 'Very Difficult' To Obey 'Nonsensical' Safety Rules

[TheEloquentAndrew]

It's videos like these that make me thankful for the idea of "meeting your maker" and "vengeance is mine saith the Lord."

[1canyonguy]

It sickens me hiding behind our flag

Time to get out the tar,rail and feathers

[sheepburn]

They're hard laws to comply with when you're turning enormous profits like he did. Blankenship took 17.8 million last year; the whole company paid out only 375k for each worker killed. He thinks he's worth far more than 29 lives? That's disgusting. The problem is most CEOs are doing this type of stuff; it's time for business school to start teaching these people macroeconomics and REAL ethics, instead of just teaching people dollar signs and bottom lines.

[jer4703]

FINE HIM, SUE HIM AND HANG HIM.

[carlgt1]

he's a rich murderer - just like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and the rest of the bums....

[wvprogressive1933]

This is what evil looks like.

[sentstuff05]

AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH. PRISON, motherfucker.

Imagine getting emotional over senseless deaths? How could we?

[vivascargill]

we cannot let this go!! we have to get out in the streets!! at least this bastard has to face the music!!

[grummeper]

Bandits!

[GrinchandMax]

When all you do is pillage the earth for resources (as opposed to manufacturing) there is no excuse for not having 100% safety. There's too much profit in resources not to be safe. But hey, as long as uneducated non-union sheep wanna die for cash then let 'em I guess? 25 fewer Republicans in the world.

Republican have the morals of Arabs and the ethics of Chinese.

[mbjl1758]

he better have some real good lawyers. this is literally admitting negligence.

[Rexcetera]

The man is a murderer. And a very rich one.

[pasnell]

Politicians get emotional.... My God. This man has failed his workers. I saw the e-mail with his "d.b." initials.... saying that safety doesn't produce coal.

It is time that the American People stand up for these men who just want to make a living. Blankenship is treating them like blacks after the civil war. "If you don't do it, I can get someone else to do it."

Why can't America grow from those days of "cheap labor" and treat people like HUMAN BEINGS??

[bapyou]

@pasnell "Why can't America grow from those days of "cheap labor" and treat people like HUMAN BEINGS?"

Thank Ronald Reagan who began the weakening of unions in America. The post-WW2 boom in the economy coincides with the period of highest union membership in the U.S. Since Reagan there's been a concerted and sustained propaganda effort by the right-wing to discredit and weaken unions, to the point where people who would benefit most from unions speak out AGAINST them.