Reply #17: They didn't deserve to die for doing their job... [View All]

[AnArmyVeteran]

Had there been safety measures to protect them their chances would have been much better. The corrupt mining company choose to pay the paltry fines, rather than build the protections in their mines. They lusted for short term profits. But now, with their mine not producing anything they will be losing more money than if they had complied with the law and put in safety systems that would have prevented the deaths of these miners.

In your post I hope you aren't following the republican mantra when they said our soldiers knew they could die if they joined ( and therefore they basically were expendable ). Not one soldier who died in Iraq signed up to die in a war based on lies and fight a country which never threatened us. They were not doing the jobs of defending our country, they were defending the financial interests of corrupt US corporations, like Halliburton.

For decades the airline industry fought to upgrade their cockpit doors to make them more secure. They cited cost and lobbied to prevent installing doors to protect the pilot and crew. And because of their irresponsibility thugs carrying mere box cutters were able to take over planes on 9/11 causing horrendous physical and financial damage. It cost the airlines billions, when if they had installed safety doors it could have prevented the attacks on 9/11. For their part in preventing safety doors from being installed every one of the CEOs in all those companies should be put in prison for life.