It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.

We have to do regular checks of our staff every six months and we have found no lung or any other health problem for 10 or 15 years.

It's Orwellian. The pharmaceutical lobby writes the bill, passes it, and then they run ads thanking them for passing it.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Every dime I have is tied up with Michael Guy Simmons and I have no money to go anywhere

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.