Profits over People as usual: Chimp goes back to Asbestos Lawsuits

[Sparkly]

As I recall, one of the first actions of BushCo last term related to asbestos. Didn't they change a rule to narrow a statute of limitations or something, in order to let HALLIBURTON off the hook for asbestos lawsuits? Here they go again!

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"The volume of asbestos lawsuits is beyond the capacity of our courts to handle, and it is growing," Bush said earlier this week. "More than 100,000 new asbestos claims were filed last year alone."

The American Trial Lawyers Association, however, says many of the companies that filed for bankruptcy were reorganized, not liquidated, and that few cases filed in court actually go to trial. Fifty to 60 cases have gone to trial annually in the past few years, Carl Carlton, a spokesman for the group, said Thursday.

"That's hardly clogging the courts," Carlton said. "Why isn't the president of the United States standing up for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who were poisoned by these companies that knew precisely what they were doing? They continued to expose their workers and their customers to this dangerous substance. Now the president wants to reward them."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20050107/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

[kwolf68]

1. Good god

--Why isn't the president of the United States standing up for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who were poisoned by these companies that knew precisely what they were doing?

MONEY IS KING. If people must die for the expansion of corporate largess then it must be done. Don't worry fellow white people of means, our homes and communities won't have absbestos in them.