45 - Right-Wing Policies Kill America's Coal Miners

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 8 June 2006

⏱️ 32 minutes

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I repeat quite often that right-wingers invariably cause increased human misery, suffering, pain and death. Today I'll present a perfect example of precisely the type of such havoc that ensues when right-wingers achieve power.We've recently witnessed the dual tragedies of the Sago mine explosion in January, which killed 12 West Virginia coal miners, and then the Harlan County mine explosion in

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0:00.0	Music
0:19.8	Greetings!
0:20.8	This is Podcast No. 45 of Blast the Right!
0:24.5	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com
0:28.4	Today, the topic will be, right-wing policies that kill America's coal miners.
0:40.4	Let's get right into it.
0:43.6	I repeat quite often that right-wingers invariably cause increased human misery, suffering, pain,
0:51.8	and death.
0:53.0	Today, I'll present a perfect example of precisely the type of such havoc that ensues
0:59.9	when right-wingers achieve power.
1:04.1	We've recently witnessed the dual tragedies of the Segal Mine explosion in January,
1:09.9	which killed 12 West Virginia coal miners, and then the Harlan County Mine explosion
1:15.5	in May, which killed five Kentucky coal miners.
1:20.2	Many of the miners survived the actual explosions, but died from lack of oxygen.
1:27.2	Mine disasters happen, right?
1:30.2	Nothing the right-wing did to help cause these, correct?
1:34.8	Wrong!
1:36.6	Right-wing actions have significantly increased the likelihood of mining disasters, and
1:42.6	decreased the likelihood that miners will survive such incidents.
1:49.3	But more bluntly, the bloody fingerprint of the right-wing is stamped all over the
1:55.4	bodies of these blasted apart and as fixated coal miners.
2:01.7	Listen to Peggy Cohn, daughter of Fred Ware, a miner who perished at Segal, and Debra Hamner,
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