Too much government in business? Where's the evidence?
I submit for your consideration Massey Energy and ask why there wasn't more government in this business, so that thirty + people might still be alive.
Massey is paying $200 million in fines and settlements for among other things:
a “perfect storm” of poor ventilation, equipment whose safety mechanisms were not functioning and combustible coal dust.
Federal investigators have also said that Massey kept two sets of books so that accounts of hazardous conditions in Upper Big Branch would be kept hidden from inspectors.
-- Big government was really oppressive towards Massey Energy before the explosion:
In the year prior to the explosion, Upper Big Branch was cited by safety inspectors 515 times and ordered to shut down operations on 52 occasions.
In case you weren't familiar with the case, Don Blankenship the CEO had destroyed lives, the environment and other businesses with reckless abandon for years. He even bought, yes bought for $3 million, the state's supreme court. So much for state's rights and local regulation.
And Republicans tell us he wasn't taking home enough of his $18 million paycheck he received for negligent homicide.
NY Times link:
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