Comments on: Labor’s Candidate is President this Workers Memorial Day http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2009/04/27/labor-candidate-is-president-this-workers-memorial-day/ Political News, Progressive Commentary, Liberal Opinions and Common Sense Conversation... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Les Kafel http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2009/04/27/labor-candidate-is-president-this-workers-memorial-day/comment-page-1/#comment-39979 Les Kafel Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:02:45 +0000 http://thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=7953#comment-39979 By examining the numbers and rates of occupational fatalities from the Clinton and Bush eras provided by the BLS (http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0006.pdf) it looks like the "lapdogs" did not do such a bad job. Both the total number of fatalities and the fatality rates declined under the Bush Administration. Perhaps, instead of making everything that the Bush Administration did seem bad, we could take the good parts and improve upon them. When the safety and health of workers ceases to be a political issue or a union issue, it can be embraced as a human issue that can be solved with benefits at the personal and economic levels. By examining the numbers and rates of occupational fatalities from the Clinton and Bush eras provided by the BLS (http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0006.pdf) it looks like the “lapdogs” did not do such a bad job. Both the total number of fatalities and the fatality rates declined under the Bush Administration.

Perhaps, instead of making everything that the Bush Administration did seem bad, we could take the good parts and improve upon them.

When the safety and health of workers ceases to be a political issue or a union issue, it can be embraced as a human issue that can be solved with benefits at the personal and economic levels.

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