Bring Your Business To Texas Where We Sacrifice Children to the Business God
Most of you probably remember the explosion in West, Texas, that pretty much leveled the entire town.
Texas is truly business friendly on the issue of explosions.
There is no state fire code in Texas. The state fire marshal’s office lacks the power to make unannounced inspections of local businesses, nor does the office have the authority to compel local facilities to open its doors.
Explosions count as fires so if you’re apt to blow up, we just trust you not to.
And we are powerfully trusting.
Five facilities in Texas with large quantities of the same fertilizer chemical that fueled the deadly plant explosion in West have turned away state fire marshal inspectors since the blast, investigators said Monday.
A railway operator that hauls hazardous materials across Texas was also said to have rebuffed a state request to share data since the April explosion at West Fertilizer Co. that killed 15 people and injured 200 others.
Cheeezzz … even Saddam Hussein allowed more inspection than that.
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You not only can build an unregulated bomb factory in Texas, you can have a portable one you drive all over the state. Because we are not gonna interfere in your bidness. Unless you want to build one in your uterus. Then we’re on top of that, regulating the hell out of it.
Thanks to John for the heads up.
Perhaps it is time to give a Darwin Award for an entire state.
1No more Federal funds for any bidness in Texas that won’t allow fire inspections. It’s time to end the scam of privatized profits and socialized losses for corporations.
I prefer my tax dollars go to folks who need healthcare, or rebuilding our infrastructure or saving our environment over giving it to businesses who put profits over people.
2They closed the abortions centers due to concern for women’s ‘safety’ but they allow other business’s to refuse something so basic as fire prevention?
They will allow business to be fire traps or blow up towns but they are so concerned about us.
Ladies, we should be so pleased.
Not.
3Hey, maybe they could combine the issues: TAYUKSIS PORTABLE VOTER ID AND EXPLOSIVES, INC. The best in the bidness.
4When are the working people in the State of Texas going to wake up and protect their interests? Start by tossing the guy with the facial hair out of office.
5Texas is suffering from testosterone poisoning. Any chick-flick kinda stuff like birth control or abortion gets the stinkeye and worse, but if you wanna blow stuff up, come on down! And remember we got guns galore too!
6Excellent analysis Rhea, I nominate you FTW.
Mr Malone, if you are talking about that dimwit that “serves only God” it is the working people of Arkansas that need to throw him out – he’s not ours, thank God fasting!
7I would hope that folks are mad enough about all this to vote the asshats out. If you have a uterus you are less than human, but if you own a gun or a bomb you are a “proud” Texan. I wish all my friends who live there DIDN’T
8How can they turn away inspectors? THAT needs to have an investigative journalist out there around the state.
9Fourteen people were killed in that blast and not one person was held responsible. Yet it’s bidness as usual. Boy, does there need to be a clean sweep-out down there.
10Maybe we need an intervention for chemical weapons here…..
11Oh, wow! Where I come from Fire Marshals are to be feared! They have uniforms and can write citations that can crash your 401(K). Somebody somewhere in Texas must think that would be fun. Think of all the whorehouses he could inspect! I will be looking for the appropriate legislation in Austin by tomorrow morning!
12That’s how it works in Texas; less zoning restrictions combined with less regulation and less safety and environmental inspections, resulting from corporate owned politicians obstructing, underfunding and under-staffing of OSHA, the EPA and any other organization charged with protecting “We the People”. When those factors combine with corporate greed and result in preventable “accidents” that wreak destruction and death on those businesses, workers, first responders and innocent citizens as well as the environment, Slick pRick Perry and other Texas politicians look to Washington to bail them out with tax dollars from American citizens both from Texas and the other 49 states, in spite of the fact that those same Texas politicians also voted against federal assistance for states and citizens devastated by Hurricane Sandy, an actual natural disaster.
Also under Rick Perry in 2011, Texas slashed state funding for the volunteer fire departments that protect most of the state from wildfires by 75%. During the 2011 wildfire season around 27,976 fires burned 3,959,040 acres, 2,862 homes, and over 2,700 other structures were destroyed. A woman and her 18-month old child died when their home was engulfed in flames as well as two firefighters. Rick Perry sought and received millions in federal disaster relief.
13@Blue Wolf Bosh — any idea what Perry did with the millions in federal disaster relief he received?
Sounds like a letter writing campaign is in order to the Director of Homeland Security, the EPA, and the Congress (the Inspector General of Homeland Security has a dual reporting relationship — to the Director of Homeland Security AND DIRECTLY TO CONGRESS.)
Not that Ted Cruz or John Cornyn give a rat’s blubbered behind about safety in Texas.
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