Reading Hedges - Days of Devastation in West Virginia and next is New York

"Elected officials at the state and federal level are paid employees of the corporate state. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the front group for the major corporations in this country, including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Chevron, News Corp, spent more money on the 2010 elections than the Republican and Democratic National Committees combined. A staggering ninety-four percent of the Chamber's contributions went to politicians who deny the existence of climate change." p. 129

"The coal companies write the laws. They control local and state politicians. They destroy the water tables, suck billions of dollars' worth of coal out of the state (West Virginia), and render hundreds of acres uninhabitable." p. 128

West Virginia is one of the poorest states in the United States and its beautiful Appalachin Mountains are being destroyed by the coal companies who have no interest in the environment or the people or other living creatures who live in those mountains. The interest of the coal company is purely financial profit.

Hedges quotes Patty Sebok, a resident of the mountains, 
"A lot of people didn't want to believe their water was bad because they are coal mining families," she says. They just don't want to hear it, because, I mean, it's a hard choice when you gotta make a living, or you gotta say you water is bad from the company they're working for. They're scared".

While we don't have mountains we do have gas and the gas companies what to destroy our water tables, pollute our land, fracking for gas. They have a huge lobby in Albany. Our Senator Maziarz has the largest campaign fund in the State because of utility contributions to his campaign fund. Maziarz is not working for his constituents in Western New York, he is working for the utility companies and for a profit and money the environment in Western New York can be put at risk and destroyed. Keep your eye on the 1% willing to sell the well being of the earth out from under us for their profit.