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Ah, Texas...

Oh yea, there's probably 0 injuries in all those steel mills in Pitsburgh
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Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Oh yea, there's probably 0 injuries in all those steel mills in Pitsburgh
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Hey, find me an article about Pittsburgh injuries, and I'll post it and be just as disgusted. Someone sent this to me - I don't seek it out.
 
how do we know 4600/5 years is a lot?

what kind of place is it? do they make land mines?
is it a union shop?

so you are blaming bush because he was the govenor?
 
If somebody even cuts their finger and needs one stitch, that is an injury you know. Factories have many sharp edges I bet.

(not that I can read the story without a login...)

EDIT: OK, that plant is bad. What does that have to do with Texas? OSHA should be all over them, not Texas.
 
Did you even read the article:

Mr. Hoskin worked for McWane Inc., a privately held company based in Birmingham, Ala., that owns Tyler Pipe and is one of the world's largest manufacturers of cast-iron sewer and water pipe. It is also one of the most dangerous employers in America, according to a nine-month examination by The New York Times, the PBS television program "Frontline" and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Since 1995, at least 4,600 injuries have been recorded in McWane foundries, many hundreds of them serious ones, company documents show. Nine workers, including Mr. Hoskin, have been killed. McWane plants, which employ about 5,000 workers, have been cited for more than 400 federal health and safety violations, far more than their six major competitors combined.
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First off, the company is based out of Alabama. Second, it's the company that's $hit, not Texas. Third, where in the article do you see anything that says that the 4600 injuries in the McWane plants have all been in Texas? Let me guess, you're going to put this on Bush because he did nothing about it as governor, even though it was OSHA's responsibility to shut down the plant, which IIRC is a branch of the Department of Labor of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
Woah thats a long article. I hope they at least get up to code. I am surprised they haven't been shut down, numberous times.
 
How is this Bush's fault? He can't oversee every single little thing that happens in his state. There are other officals below him who deal with issues so he doesn't have to.
 
Originally posted by: Munchies
Be quiet bush fanboy
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Once again, the intelligence of a Democrat is portrayed.

Bush had nothing to do with this, the idiots running/overseeing the plant did.

That's about as stupid as saying that the '94 baseball strike was Clinton's fault because it happened in the US and he was president.
 
Originally posted by: gump47371
That's about as stupid as saying that the '94 baseball strike was Clinton's fault because it happened in the US and he was president.
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But it was Clinton's fault, wasn't it?

Good thing the republicans controlled Congress or I don't think we would of ever seen Baseball played again. Thank God for Newt Gingrich.




Sorry I don't know where that came from, maybe I've been watching too much Fox News.
 
Originally posted by: gump47371
Originally posted by: Munchies
Be quiet bush fanboy
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Once again, the intelligence of a Democrat is portrayed.

Bush had nothing to do with this, the idiots running/overseeing the plant did.

That's about as stupid as saying that the '94 baseball strike was Clinton's fault because it happened in the US and he was president.
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i think even democrats would be embarassed by the idiotic suggestions being made
 
Just read the full article...
This situation has nothing to do with politics of any kind, not about who is in charge, what laws are in place, or anything like that. Those who have said so are idiots, plain and simple.
Tyler Pipe and its owners, McWane, Inc., are flagrantly and deliberately out of compliance with numerous safety, labor, and enviromental laws to the point of being criminal. They are willfully violating the law for the sake of profit. They have been investigated numerous times (and probably paid a large amount in fines I'll wager) and have continued to fail in compliance. The fact that they are now receiving national media coverage for what they are doing is proof that the final steps are being taken to shut them down for good.
It has nothing to do with politics.

Look, that's how this works. Government inspectors can't just close a large corporation down on a whim, they don't have the power. McWane has a lot of money and they can hire a lot of attorneys to protect them. Government inspectors often have to fight an uphill battle in the courts for years to get a violating company shut down, but (if their case has merit, like this one) they usually win out in the end. Media exposure is usually the turning point in those battles, because no company stands on its own. It does business with many other companies on a daily basis and some of those companies are going to want to re-examine their relationship with McWane, Inc. in the near future, I am quite sure...

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Ctho9305 -

Did you even read the article, or did you stop at the word "Texas" and decide to blame it all on Bush?

Your post is ridiculous, and you should be beaten with your keyboard.
 
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