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Posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Jan 16 11:08:03 2019, in response to Re: BART getting ready to decommission legacy cars, posted by LA Scott on Tue Jan 15 19:54:26 2019. Whale.... I really cannot see how you can blame any political party, any business or even the makers of asbestos. The dangers of asbestos were not known in the 60s. I remember handling the stuff in science class in school. You know, when we played with our Bunsen burners.The ceilings in our school had asbestos tiles, and in the 70s when I worked there as a janitor we paid no particular heed when handling them., and kids delighted in shooting quarters into them with rubber bands. The did that right over the stairway were we could not put a ladder to take them down. KENTILE was a huge manufacture of asbestos floor tiles, and they were forced out of business by litigation that really should not have been aimed at them.But they had the deepest pockets at the time. They should have just changed their ways, made tiles out of another material and then taken care of those in their facility who became ill. That alone might have driven them out of business anyway. But enter the lawyers and worse yet, the politicians and the whole world was turned upside down. Ok, well, you are sick, yes asbestos caused it, but WE DID NOT KNOW that it was dangerous, we operated within existing guide lines and practices, ERGO there is NO LIABILITY! The cases shopuld have been thrown out, and some other funding source should have been found to care for the sick. Obviously at this point in time, nothing can be done to change what has happened. ROAR |
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