Bush Aides Rush to Enact a Safety Rule Obama Opposes »

Posted By Aidenag 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News

The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

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    Candida7 months, 1 week ago

    This is outright criminal. There are many ways of killing people; this is one of them.

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      jordan117 months, 1 week ago

      The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.>>>

      What a bunch of freaking slobs. Congress needs to squash their nonsense with new laws governing environmental impact. Environmental groups can also sue to overturn the bush administrations filthy assault on our environment & our people.

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        reallypsst7 months, 1 week ago

        People need to voice their opposition directly to congress and put bush on notice of criminal indictment,this is an act of a disturbed madman and also all who serve him should be prosecuted!

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          hamy7 months, 1 week ago

          How do you like the president you could drink a beer with now? He truly has nothing but disdain for the American people.

          What a shallow and horrible man.

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            Bluedragon9127 months, 1 week ago

            Surprise! Not really. The inner environmentalist in me was cringing when I read the rule about coal companies dumping into streams and valleys.

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              mntnman4447 months, 1 week ago

              I find it strange that the govt cares so much about my health that they will take away my freedom to smoke but don't care about the welding smoke I breathe or what chemicals I come in contact with at work.But as long as citizens go along with the "tobacco mania" the govt puts out,they are accomplices in the trashing of rights.

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              sanyi_oradea7 months, 1 week ago

              Who cares, I just hope they are not going to dismount the toilets, the sinks, and remove the coper tubings from the walls of the White House, like any decent real blue blooded American would do, when he is forced out of his home/house do to foreclosure, and as far as they are concerned, it is a foreclosure situation... for them.

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              aceofspades17 months, 1 week ago

              "like any decent real blue blooded " probably blue colored blood from the toxic waste

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                cowboygrandpa7 months, 1 week ago

                Just another reason to view Bush for what he is. A murdering, lieing, thieving, heartless, brainless idiot. Who has not had to work hard for a living ever.

                Whose ideas of protecting people is protecting the profits of the greedy no accounts who could care less about man kind.

                Those who defend him are either stupid or have not had to put it on the line every day, looking forward to a day when one can retire in somewhat good health.

                You Bush backers really need a lesson, you go do the work and see.

                Nah you couldn't hang !!!!! You'd be whining after the first week !!!!! LMAO hahahahahaaaaa

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                beavith17 months, 1 week ago

                did any of you clowns read the article?
                jordan: labor hygiene rules have nothing to do with environmental rules.
                psycho: this is a worker safety issue, beyotched mainly by the AFL CIO. you're being played. are you saying that we are likely to be dirtier than China? LOL. you must be a kid. we used to BE like China. we cleaned up.

                bluedragon: sheesh. google up the rule and see for yourself what they are talking about. its a restriction ON dumping overburden. historically, mountaintop mining has been doing it for years and years.
                mountainman: if you are a welder, you know that OSHA rules already apply. whasamatter? you can beeyotch here, but you can't complain to your employer? make them meet the regs. its your right.
                CG: what are you? the cheerleader for a bunch of mental midgets?

                folks. if you want to complain about crappy politics, go right ahead. if you want to complain about the technical aspects of some of these bills, go right ahead,too. just to go on and on about something you don't understand and have made no attempt to understand either, is just plain silly.

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                amazed7 months, 1 week ago

                Here come the torrents of negs, but....

                all of the same people who are carrying on about how this regulation amounts to "murder" on Bush's part -- (the way I read the regulation is that OSHA should know that the toxin is a threat in the manner in which it is used in the particular industry) before it issues work rules banning the substance or making very restrictive rules on how it must be handled) -- are, for the most part, the same ones yelling about the evil corporations who keep sending all the work overseas.

                Now, it makes tons of sense to me, that the way to entice corporations to keep their production in the states is to throw EVEN MORE regulations at them...yeah, right.

                This headline and, to a bit lesser extent the article, is just aimed at (pretty effectively, apparently) whipping up people with an anti-business mindset into a frenzy.

                Kind of like when they sent my kid's entire school home for the rest of the day because a teacher broke an old mercury thermometer in a closet.

                We need a little more rationality and a lot less hysteria when it comes to work place regulations.

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                ForrestPhelps7 months, 1 week ago

                Just curious, have the posters Amazed or libsRfunny ever worked (more than visited) an industrial environment?

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                RRcon7 months, 1 week ago

                This could be one good thing that the out going Bush administration can do. The left wingers and tree huggers are using the EPA and OSHA to push their wack job agendas. If Obama attacks this, and it doesn't get passed, you can kiss even more manufacturing jobs goodbye. We all need a clean and safe working environments, but to propagate that Bush is going to push thru this legislation for the "BIG EVIL BUSINESS COMMUNITY" so that we all get to work in toxic sweat shops just goes to show the scare tactics that the left wing uses. It just might keep some manufacturing companies here. It just means that there won't be the bureacracy that the left so loves.

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