… And then there’s the famous memo sent by Blankenship in October 2005 to all ‘Deep Mine Superintendents.’ …<\/p>\n
“SUBJECT: RUNNING COAL<\/p>\n
If you have been asked by your group presidents, supervisors, engineers, to do anything else other than to run coal (i.e. – build overcasts<\/b>, do construction jobs, or whatever) you need to ignore them and run coal. This memo is necessary only because we seem not to understand that the coal pays the bills.”<\/p>\n
Mine ‘overcasts’ are critical to proper mine ventilation, and for many miners, Blankenship’s memo made it abundantly clear exactly what Massey’s ‘top priority’ was, and is.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Libertarians, this is why we need government.<\/p>\n
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