[Wildcatk23]

This is my last response to you tonight. You do not understand the coal business or economics in general to hold up your end of the debate. I do not know Don Blankenship but if he is rich, I am sure that he values every man and woman who helped him become wealthy. I believe that Blankenship began as an engineer with Massey and worked his way to the top. Your socialist song and dance explains your support of Obama. Blankenship has done far more to earn whatever money he has made than the Obamas ever will.

You claim to know so much of the coal industries in eastern ky but you dont know who don blankenship is?
Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is facing long-overdue scrutiny for his record of putting coal profits over fundamental safety and health concerns.

The same Don Blankenship who invented a scandal and funded it to the tune of $3 million to run one one state supreme court judge out of office for the crime of siding with workers. The same Blankenship who was photographed cavorting along the French Riveria with another justice while his company had a $77 million case before the court.


Don Blankenship "If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything other than run coal (i.e. build overcasts, do construction jobs, or whatever), you need to ignore them and run coal. This memo is necessary only because we seem not to understand that the coal pays the bills."