Sen Rockefeller Slams Capitalism-Tells Stunning Truth: Industry Cuts Corners & Gets Away With It

[kpete]

“Industry does everything they can and gets away with it almost all the time, whether it’s the coal industry, ... or water or whatever. They will cut corners, and they will get away with it.”- Sen. Jay Rockefeller

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“I came from outside of Appalachia, so sometimes I see Appalachia in ways that are different than others,” the West Virginia Democrat said, adding that the myth is “the idea that somehow God has it in his plan to make sure that industry is going to make life safe for them.”

“Not true,” Rockefeller said. “Industry does everything they can and gets away with it almost all the time, whether it’s the coal industry, not the subject of this hearing, or water or whatever. They will cut corners, and they will get away with it.”

He also talked about “Scotch-Irish culture … I’m sorry, fatalism.”

“The world is as it is — we accept the world as it is,” Rockefeller said. “And the point is you don’t accept the world as it is, but as it should be, and you make it in that posture. I’m just — I’m here angry, upset, shocked, embarrassed that this would happen to 300,000 absolutely wonderful people, who, you know, work in coal mines and that stuff, but they’re depending on the fruit of the land, wherever it may be, for survival. They’re making it, but barely.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/west-virginia-chemical-spill-hearing-103105.html#ixzz2saKxD7IU

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/06/1275642/-Sen-Jay-Rockefeller-Slams-Capitalism-Tells-Stunning-Truth

[riversedge]

1. Well Rocky -where were you when this started -decades ago.

[kpete]

2. I believe he answered that question as well...:

“I think I’ll stop there for my own good,” said Rockefeller, who is retiring after this year.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/west-virginia-chemical-spill-hearing-103105.html#ixzz2seIYzhbe

[clarice]

3. The very words "Rockefeller slams Capitalism" made me spit out my Cheerios. Hilarious. nt