| I have a question for all you "Free Marketers" out there... News is, this mine had 96 major safety violations in the last year, and something like 206 total violations. Can I, as a consumer, use the free market to my advantage and refuse electricity from coal that was pulled from this mine? How, exactally, without "evil government regulation", i.e., real enforcement from the government in the form of fines that mean it is more expensive for these assholes to say "screw safety" than it is for them to do the right thing. Maybe this was a freak, natural accident. I doubt it though.
All I see when I look down, something jumpin' on the ground, Scratchin' dirt, cluckin' in the barnyard -
Tell me, could that be you?
John Kay |