Monday, April 26, 2010

CNN Reporting ...

Giant companies buy other companies but that does not help a young man with Crohn’s disease. He lacks insurance. He is not so happy ...needs $640 worth of medicine, but his need is bigger than his weekly paycheck. Everyone in our society is completely happy, of course, except, of course, for those who aren't.

So, he’s been going without medicine, and he's in and out of hospital. 29 miners just died the other day, in the coal industry, which is one of the most exploitative and irresponsible industries that exist, and has been exposed as such.

Our country cheerfully presents us with this stuff. It is the news.

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regarding the coal industry:

[In] " ...Jeff Biggers’ new book, Reckoning At Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal In The Heartland..." "he quotes a friend: “The abuse of the land is always connected to the abuse of the people.” ..."

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