Bush's SOTU: "stop frivolous asbestos claims"

[IndianaGreen]

Asbestos = Halliburton and Dick Cheney.

Just do a google on asbestos on a bookseller website and you will get several hits about the scandal involving asbestos claims. The scandal is that Halliburton has been trying to get Congress to put a cap on asbestos claims.

Any exposure to asbestos is deadly. Asbestos can be found in older buildings such as schools, businesses, and in products as varied as in dry wall, floor tiles.

It might take 20 years for someone exposed to asbestos to first experience symptoms of exposure. Illness and death soon follows. There is no cure!

Asbestos is the biggest cover up since Watergate!

[alittlelark]

1. Asbestos=safe

Lung cancer = good luck (hahahahhahaah).


Halliburton is throwing a party I would love to attend ( best of all illegals).

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. Asbestos is not only found in schools, older businesses, etc, but

check out what is in your brake pads on your car, truck, SUV, etc.

Mr. Wonderful is a mechanic and has been practicing his trade for over 30 years and never wears any protective device when plying his trade.

But I suppose, according to Bushco, et al, it's all his own fault.

[charlie]

3. That was Cheney's "big move" at Halliburton

The acquisition of Dresser and its asbestos liabilities. Colossal mistake.

CEO Presidency... *snort*

Cheney's as big a fuckup as Dubya was.

[LittleClarkie]

4. He does this every time doesn't he

There's always that one bizzaro reference that you scratch your head at and say "why did he talk about steroids?" Or in this case, asbestos.

I think that was steroids he referenced in a speech. Something sports related. It was just such a weird thing for the President to be worrying about. I wonder what the connection that time was.

There is no such thing as a frivolous asbestos claim. There is nothing frivolous about slowly suffocating to death.

[IndianaGreen]

5. The asbestos industry has been criminally negligent

and Cheney is now getting Bush to demagogue a major health risk by talking about "frivolous asbestos claims."

Two years ago the former home of the NBA's Indiana Pacers, Market Square Arena, was imploded in a big live-on-TV explosion. A big cloud of dust quickly enveloped downtown Indianapolis. We are now just beginning to find out that there were asbestos fibers in that dust cloud. While the insulation had been removed, there was asbestos in other of the building's components that no one was aware of. There is also evidence that asbestos contaminated rubble was buried at a non-EPA-approved site close to an upscale subdivision. Considering that thousands of spectators were likely exposed to asbestos, many of them children, how "frivolous" will their claims be when they invariably get sick?

[roguevalley]

6. my father's best friend died of asbestos poisoning. He went out

with a terrible cancer. Bush can go F himself. Frivolous. That sack of crap is beyond despicable.

[PurityOfEssence]

7. Dresser Industries: Cheney's only major business initiative

Like Junior, he's a colossal failure as a businessperson. The only success Ninnyboy ever had was when he used the muscle of connections and government to bilk people of their property through eminent domain when building his stadium in Arlington TX. As many of you know, he and his cohorts bought much more land than they needed, FORCING owners to sell at a dime on the dollar, and then sold the extra land off at a huge profit once the stadium was completed. Another triumph for sports.

Then there's Deadeye Dick: his only real time in business was selling his connections and using cronyism while running Halliburton. At the helm, the only major move that he initiated was the acquisition of Dresser, and it was known seemingly to everyone but him and the board that they were sitting on a sea of liability for asbesteosis claims. He bungled that as thoroughly as he did the patent infringement case (Halliburton, when it couldn't license anti-corrosion technology, just stole it outright; they were found guilty and had to pay $93 Million dollars.) Big Chief Scourge of Small Birds also defrauded the company's investors by booking planned overages (cynical, intended overages, mind you) as "income". We haven't even talked about selling drilling equipment to Iran, Iraq and Libya against U.S. law... (Okay, he did it through foreign subsidiaries, so the transaction itself wasn't against the law, although the decision WAS.)

Fuck the poor. Fuck the weak. The haters of government absolutely love using its massive weight to crush nuisances and further their own personal gains. They're worse than gangsters.

[salin]

11. and which foreign subsidiary did he use for Iraq

an arm of Dresser. Coincidence - or perhaps the reason for the acquisition? Remember, at the time, Haliburton's subsidiary became the BIGGEST foreign contractor working on the oil fields (reconstruction) for Saddam.

[illflem]

8. Ask the kids in Libby, Montana

who developed lung problems later in life after Halliburton so generously donated tailings from their asbestos mine to build the high school track and football field if they support tort reform.

[bklyncowgirl]

9. Cheney smiled at that one. nt

[CWebster]

10. Yep, no doubt about who is pulling the dummy's strings. nt