Blankenship story coming up on 60 minutes.

[SLIDING SIDEWAYS]

but you can be rich without being greedy too.

got crickets!

[Clayton_Wetter]

I'm sure CBS will be fair.

Oh yeah, they will be fair all right. CBS will tear him and the coal industry to shreds and Obummer will pat them all on the back.

[a25rjr]

Oh yeah, they will be fair all right. CBS will tear him and the coal industry to shreds and Obummer will pat them all on the back.

Yeah, I'm surprised Obummer didn't pardon Dan Rather, so he could make a comeback! He must have got a "never be back on tv" retirement clause from the Bush fiasco!

[plunks7]

But you can be rich without being greedy too.

Name one!!!

[In The Gas]

Don Blankinship is a POS! This guy had no regards to safety nor the people who made him very wealthy. I hope the families file a civil suit against him and peels the Ba$t@rd for all he is worth.
I do hope to see his son back racing someday just without coal on his hood.
On another note; what does Obama have to do with this case?

[Clayton_Wetter]

Name one!!!

. Charles Francis Feeney

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Lifetime donations: $6.3 billion

Net worth: $1.5 million

Generosity Index: 420,000%

Known as the "James Bond of philanthropy," retail magnate Chuck Feeney is on a mission to give away his entire fortune — and with his current net worth down to $1.5 million, it seems he's succeeded.

The Atlantic Philanthropies, Feeney's foundation, supports education, science, healthcare, and civil-rights causes across several countries, including the US, Vietnam, and Bermuda.

[Illtsate32]

Thats a big reason we have unions for a safe work place not just salary see whats happens when u work for scab operations....

[NormP]

There were all kinds of non-union coal companies back home and their men were as happy as could be, working in mines as safe as any around; my dad was one of those men.

[Barbecueboy]

Thats a big reason we have unions for a safe work place not just salary see whats happens when u work for scab operations....

Unions can easily be replaced by good owners that follow the rules.......

[COKEandaSMILE]

Unions can easily be replaced by good owners that follow the rules.......

Cool story! I enjoy fiction too.

[fastford]

I've always said that race team was financed off the blood of coal miners. I'm glad to see Don at least got something

how about all the coal miners the president is starving to death , what should he get????????

[vande07]

Unions can be good, but they often are just as corrupt as the companies in my experience (Teamsters anyone????)

Having said that, Unions can be good for those industries where the companies do not treat their employees fairly. While other companies thrive by not having a union (and their employees make as much (or more) than their union counterparts).

I have never held a Union Job, however my dad was a Union man for 40+ years. What has it gotten him? It got him a good pension for his first couple years of retirement, but now that pension will be cut in 1/2 this year and that is the ONLY retirement that nearly ALL of those union men and women have. Why will it be cut in 1/2? Because the UNION mismanaged the funds, overspent on salaries, and had no long term vision of what it would mean when they allowed members to retire after 25 and 30 years (when they were still in their 40's) and lived until they were in their 80's.

I personally feel that if Don Blankenship had direct knowledge of safety violations that his sentence is warranted (and sadly, he probably deserves more, but the law has a maximum sentence of 1 year). If he had no direct knowledge, a fine and probation is probably more fair. I personally know nothing about the man, the coal industry, or the court case (so I would say I'm pretty impartial).

As far as Rich people that aren't greedy, I can name one that I actually met in person. Warren Buffet (net worth $66.7 BILLION)

Quite possibly the nicest guy I ever met (in a Dairy Queen in small town Iowa eating his lunch no less). I was 20 something and he asked me what I did and what I wanted to do in the future (he wasn't asking about my job either, he was more interested in what I wanted to do with my life). Now, he's giving away his fortune, and convinced other Billionaires to all do the same, to make the WORLD a better place for everyone. That doesn't sound greedy at all, in fact, it sounds more like what we should be getting out of our politicians and world leaders. But alas, they seem to be the Greedy ones.

[Barbecueboy]

Cool story! I enjoy fiction too.

Do ya now?
Well check this fiction out...........your a smart guy with an unbiased opinion.

Unions are a cancer, iradication is the only cure.............very similar to lobbyists and political action committees.

[Bubstr]

Do ya now?
Well check this fiction out...........your a smart guy with an unbiased opinion.

Unions are a cancer, iradication is the only cure.............very similar to lobbyists and political action committees.

There sure are a lot of corrupt unions, but not near as many as corrupt politicians who are at the beckon call of lobbyists. Just think, The rich businesses have their lobbyists and the only lobbyist that even comes close to representing the working man is the Union. When they go, you have no one. Name one lobby that stands for the average working man, while labor and safety laws slip away.
At the turn of the 19th century, Labor unions and Socialists lobbied for Safe working conditions, pure food and drug acts and child labor laws and as the dwindled, so has the strength and enforcement. When the Unions are gone, so will these laws be gone.

[Clayton_Wetter]

Don Blankinship is a POS! This guy had no regards to safety nor the people who made him very wealthy. I hope the families file a civil suit against him and peels the Ba$t@rd for all he is worth.
I do hope to see his son back racing someday just without coal on his hood.
On another note; what does Obama have to do with this case?

Didn't say he did. Just said he would be celebrating since he IS directly involved in a war against coa;.

Flashback 2008: Obama Promised To ‘Bankrupt’ Coal Companies

It’s an odd coincidence that the same day President Barack Obama unveils regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. a major coal company announces it is going bankrupt. In 2008, Obama said his energy policies would “bankrupt” anyone who wants to build a coal plant.

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” Obama said during a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board.

“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad,” Obama said in 2008. “Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to, uh, retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

Special: A Jaw-Dropping 21 Month 0% Interest Rate Card Has Been Announced
Interestingly enough, the day Obama announced EPA regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants the coal company Alpha Natural Resources filed for bankruptcy. The EPA’s regulations, called the Clean Power Plan, are expected to retire upwards of 90 gigawatts of coal-fired power generation in the coming years, reducing demand for coal and forcing mines to shutter.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/03/fl...#ixzz45AgkwcJD

So with the EPA under his control and command you bet he has a lot of influence in court cases. Lawyers to.