"Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale. In reality, you will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing." - Ernest Hemingway
Coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from the highest rates of black lung in 50 years.
This comes after Trump cancelled regulations limiting toxic silica dust in mines, which would have prevented at least 1,067 deaths and 3,746 black lung cases.
Here we go again.
Deregulation does not work. Not for companies. Not for governments.
Profits will always take precedent over consumer health until it cannot be hid no longer.