Should mines be subject to stricter safety standards and more rigorous inspections?

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by Jake Dalton

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In todays modern world, should anyone be subject to such harsh and painful work? Is working in a mine considered forced labor or slavery? The answer is a simple no. Miners around the country are in fact a large part of our countries industry and their safety is a concern, but government intervention into mines would be another example of Americas slow and slippery decline into a world of complete authoritarian rule. I do not, in any way, believe that the government of the United States should place stricter regulations and more rigorous inspections into the mines of this country.

Miners are not manipulated or enslaved to go into the mines. They work completely due to free will and realize the dangers that a mine shaft presents on a daily basis. They realize and acknowledge the possibility of a mine shaft collapse, or a machinery accident could possibly happen at any time of their working hours. Miners are not bonded nor manipulated to be put into these harsh and rough conditions, they do so in order to help support their families and selves. Miners work completely on free will and I am sure that they acknowledge the dangers that are presented in their work.

Accidents will always happen, whether the government steps up safety standards or inspections. To say otherwise, is pure ignorance and absolute stupidity. Accidents not only happen in mines, but in offices, houses, streets, sidewalks, bathrooms, and a myriad of other locations across the globe. Must we raise safety standards and inspections to sidewalk construction? Must we raise safety standards and inspections to your homes, vehicles, and yards? Must we regulate all things considered dangerous to the American public on a monthly, weekly, or daily basis? The gate to Big Brother surely will have swept open! Soon a book is dangerous for children to read, so by regulations, lets burn the copies. A book is dangerous to the establishment of the American Government, lets burn it. It is a sad, sadistic spiral that will eventually consume all aspects of American life. Accidents will always happen, and things will always be slightly unsafe, but that does not mean the government should come in and regulate everything deemed as such.

The government, with a extremely large defiect, does not have the money to create a department solely on this concern. The American government has more concerns then the mine shafts of the US considering they have been running effectively for so many years and have helped our economy for so long. The American government should be more concerned with the poor economic status, the lack of health care for American citizens, a war started completely on falsified information that is completely disagreed with by the public, and the corrupt members of congress and the white house itself. The last thing that I would prefer our government to do is to worry about free-willed miners, whom acknowledge the dangers of the profession they have chosen, who are unsafe or in harms way. And it is even more of a pity that the pure ignorance of American democrats to focus on such.

Mines should not be subject to stricter safety standards nor more rigorous inspections. This is a matter of power, whether disguised as safety or the increase of moral fiber in America. Their is an old saying that proclaims that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and we are slowly giving them complete and total power over Americans. Our founding fathers who fought against the monarchy of the English would truely be rolling in their graves at such a pitiful and ignorant thought. And I surely will as well.

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