Oh no did they vote for the the person who got rid of the regulations to protect them. Then they got exactly what they wanted and should stop fucking whining about their poor lung quality
Fuck all of you poor ass MAGAt filth. Reap what you fucking sow
It seems that the miners of West Virginia have forgotten their heritage.
Legit tho, as a steel city inhabitant, we don’t have the infrastructure anymore for industrial coal mining and ore processing. We have things like Duolingo, Google, and the tech boom of the mid east. Keep your fucking runoff and pollutants out of my river.
Also quick note I went for a bike ride on Friday and saw this
The GAO report said: “Miners in all six groups expressed their belief that mine operators were either ‘waiting for them to die’ or ‘waiting for them to give up’ so they could avoid paying benefit.” It noted between January 2013 to mid-August 2024, 390 beneficiaries whose claims were initially approved had their claims denied after appeal, leaving them responsible for paying back the benefits.
According to the report, the median length of an appealed claim was three years or more.
Among 53,000 closed claims between January 2013 and August 2024, 11 claims took longer than 10 years to close. The report did not state how many open cases have surpassed 10 years.
Whether coal mining, coffee, or health care, these companies (or their insurance companies) have all the time and money in the world, while real people have real lives and real monthly (or weekly) bills. So yeah, die.
Black-lung disease sounds so turn-of-the-century… 19th turning to 20th century, that is.
My great-grandfather died from black lung.
But his descendants mostly took that as a life lesson. And the lesson was to find almost any other vocation, not some kind of moral duty to follow in his footsteps, or push others to do so.
