China Miners

The kind of China George W. Bush loves is growing fast.
In 1969 a pony driver by the name of John Streets worked in a Dreamy Hollow, West Virginia coal mine and earned $14.80 a day.
Miners at the Qingciyao coal mine in Datong make about $96 per month.
There is a young woman in China by the name of Zhao with a young child.
Her husband, Ding, worked in a coal mine.
China’s economy booms.
Thanks to men like Ding.
Ships loaded with goods from China arrive daily in America.
Many people are paid survival wages producing the cheap energy Chinese factories use.
4,153 miners died in the first nine months of 2004.
Corruption and bad safety equipment costing more than paying death benefits adds to the problem.
Apparently mine bosses tampered with gas-detection equipment before the blast killed Mr. Ding and over 100 others. It avoids triggering alarms and work stoppages.
Fires raged in the mine before the blast, said one miner.
Consider what is happening in Communist China and that labor unions stopped that sort of thing in our country. Our ‘leaders’ are working to weaken these same unions today.
"If by some miracle he makes it out alive, even if we have to eat bark in the mountains, somehow, anyhow, I'll make him quit.", said Mr. Ding’s wife.
Mr. Ding didn’t make it.
Mr. Ding is dead.
Support your local unions.
I don’t think our government should be in the business of exporting misery.