Bush has Gutted OSHA
It came as no surprise when I read the NYT article this morning on Bush’s Gutting of OSHA. He’s proven in Iraq that the Lives and Health of the American People are just so much fodder for the Corporate Money Making Machines, so why should it be any different here on American Soil? So what if people in factories are becoming sick?
The article states:
Since George W. Bush became president, OSHA has issued the fewest significant standards in its history, public health experts say. It has imposed only one major safety rule. The only significant health standard it issued was ordered by a federal court.
The agency has killed dozens of existing and proposed regulations and delayed adopting others. For example, OSHA has repeatedly identified silica dust, which can cause lung cancer, and construction site noise as health hazards that warrant new safeguards for nearly three million workers, but it has yet to require them.
“The people at OSHA have no interest in running a regulatory agency,” said Dr. David Michaels, an occupational health expert at George Washington University who has written extensively about workplace safety. “If they ever knew how to issue regulations, they’ve forgotten. The concern about protecting workers has gone out the window.”
It will take a decade or more to reverse the damage Bush and his cronies have done to this country. The list keeps getting longer and longer.
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