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No matter who is to blame, or not to blame, is not the question, at a time like this, if you are a compassionate person, you are very happy at this time, can you imagine what these poor men have been thru, could any of you have lasted that long and under those same condtions. I am very happy for the 5 that have come up to safety, and hope the same for the others, and i am thrilled and elated for the family members also.
Let's see: CNN. Abc, CBS, fox, BBC, ap, and et al have spent MILLONS of dollars, covering this "story." those millions of dollars could have saved how many mortgages? Put how much food on the table? Isn't that what you liberals whine about? Money spent for stupid things? The issue is saving the men, Not having 24 hr, million dollar coverage on it.
As I said: What a waste of money. That money would have been better off running stories on homeless in America, americans without jobs, etc. Not spent in Chile.
Those "millions of dollars" were not there or available to save anyones mortgage or put food on anyones table. They were only there because people wanted to cover this story. That's what so many people can't seem to grasp when it comes to other peoples money....it was not theirs to spend and never would have been.
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Originally Posted by Phil306 What a waste of time! Ok, they were trapped and now rescued. And? The sun is going to rise tomorrow, the tide is going to come in and out, and THOUSANDS of people, all across the world will die. CNN, nor anyone else will give a rats butt about them and have a front page story about it.
And the age of Obama continues.
Sounds like the ranting drivel of a Republican to me, Bah Humbug! Lets add the Chilean miners rescue to your rightwing list of things to hate..
To answer a question I asked earlier in the thread--'How were they able to reduce the estimated time for the rescue?'
This is what I learned from CNN--
An engineering company, whose spokesperson seemed to be in TX, came up with 'Plan B'. Many people were expertise then involved in implementing the plan, including a group of US drillers from Afghanistan. This is considered an exceptional accomplishment, if not the most significant, among engineers.
I was watching this while getting ready for work this morning. One of the miners made a gesture to the sky and said "God is great" and I was annoyed that the anchorwoman on our local station chimed right in and said "Oh, it's good to see him giving thanks where it's due". Say what? No gods got those guys out of that hole. Rescuers working hard for 69 days got those guys out. Not only that it's annoying that an anchorperson would show religious bias when they're simply supposed to be reporting the news.
When I saw some of these miners..my first thought was..boy they look so clean and clean shaven for being down there for the past 69 days..they must have supplied them with soap, shaving creme, mirrors, water and clean outfits...amazing..but yet they only had a spoonful of tuna fish at each meal...wow just thought it was a little strange...unless maybe I was not seeing the actual rescued miners on TV..maybe they were the rescuers...after all after 70 days..they would have looked like cavemen all dirty and scuzzy...anyway...great news for all concerned...
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