Bend Over, Guaranteed to Hurt

As if there weren't already enough ways to force toe workers to support the wealthy, Marc Racicot is going to get a million or more dollars a year to find more ways for industry to feed at the public trough.

"I am looking forward to beginning this next chapter of my career and immersing myself in the industry challenges that must be resolved in the immediate future, such as extension of the national terrorism insurance program, as well as longer-term priorities, such as addressing lawsuit abuse (corporations are the biggest abusers by far) and modernizing (remember how much it cost us to let him modernize things around here?)the industry's regulatory system," Racicot said.

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Among top priorities identified on its Web site, the AIA cited the need to find a national solution to asbestos litigation(as long as no wealthy Republican donor is ever held accountable for anything they know will cause great suffering and/or death to the peons), which affects Libby, the northwestern Montana town where Racicot was raised. At least 200 Libby residents have died from exposure to asbestos from W.R. Grace and Co.'s vermiculate mine, and hundreds more workers, their families and other Libby residents were exposed to asbestos.

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