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How many stories did you read or see on TV about the 13 miners traped in West Virginia? How many have there been about the 65 in Mexico? Just asking.

Posted in: Current Affairs

Comments

Barry
Wed, 02/22/2006 - 5:54am

Your headline captured it perfectly: the West Virginians are our own. (Or they are for now, though not if the mining company executives get their way and start importing miners from Latin America to do work our Appalachians are too drugged up to do (according to the mining companies!))
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-nws-hisp19.html

The Mexicans are not our own. Same reason we ignore most of the deaths that surround us every day, but pay close attention and feel sorrow when someone related to us--by blood or by the bonds of friendship--dies. It's evolution in action!

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