http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x76283Oh my.
groovedaddy (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 11:53 AM
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At Closing Plant, Ordeal Included Heart Attacks
The first to have a heart attack was George Kull Jr., 56, a millwright who worked for three decades at the steel mills in Lackawanna, N.Y. Three weeks after learning that his plant was closing, he suddenly collapsed at home. Less than two hours later, he was pronounced dead.
A few weeks after that, a co-worker, Bob Smith, 42, a forklift operator with four young children, started having chest pains. He learned at the doctor’s office that he was having a heart attack. Surgeons inserted three stents, saving his life.
Less than a month later, Don Turner, 55, a crane operator who had started at the mills as a teenager, was found by his wife, Darlene, slumped on a love seat, stricken by a fatal heart attack.
It is impossible to say exactly why these men, all in relatively good health, had heart attacks within weeks of one another. But interviews with friends and relatives of Mr. Kull and Mr. Turner, and with Mr. Smith, suggest that the trauma of losing their jobs might have played a role.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/us/25stress.html?th&e...
And who's been in charge of the economy since January 20, 2009 (actually, since January 3, 2007), which is now a very long time ago?
TomClash (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 11:56 AM
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1. Republican and Capitalist response
So what? They had become surplus labor anyway. Better dead than sponging off the productive."
And who's been in charge of the economy since January 20, 2009 (actually, since January 3, 2007), which is now a very long time ago?
RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 12:14 PM
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2. "Better they should die, and decrease the surplus population."
As we come full circle back to Dickens in 1840.
And who's been in charge of the economy since January 20, 2009 (actually, since January 3, 2007), which is now a very long time ago?
Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 01:38 PM
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3. Life and Death in the Republican Paradise.
And who's been in charge of the economy since January 20, 2009 (actually, since January 3, 2007), which is now a very long time ago?
upi402 (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 05:11 PM
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4. American worker: Meat or Pet
Well Rethugs would prefer meat, as pets drain resources from the wealthy who shouldn't be saddled with unfair burdens like that as they struggle to select their next luxury jet or yacht.
And who's been in charge of the economy since January 20, 2009 (actually, since January 3, 2007), which is now a very long time ago?
