Chilean Miners

``SAN JOSÉ MINE, Chile — Two months, nine days, and eight hours after their excruciating ordeal began, the last of the 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground in Chile was delivered safely to the earth’s surface, capping perhaps the most dramatic survival story in mining history.''

NYT

This is good news. Working people usually are worth less than the gold they get out of the ground.

Read Wikipedia.

Salvador Allende tried in the early 70s to give them a really decent life, but was paid by Nixon et al., with a bullet in his body.

What gives?

Maybe a business oriented president helps in the world's public relations game.

I am glad these working men are well.