CAT Tracks for April 14, 2015 'DOWN DON'T BOTHER ME'

Some more serendipity on the heels of my previous Sunday Morning Book Review.

Yeah, I bought the book and am currently reading it.

The serendipity part is the passage below in which the coal mine owner (by the name of Matthew Luster) offers one of his workers a guaranteed pension if he accepts his offer for assistance.

Well, that got the coal miner's attention:

I was thinking about that pension and all that it meant. For a coal miner - or any working person, really - a pension means just about everything. Luster was right: a pension was health insurance into your dotage and financial security after you retired. It was a monthly paycheck and food in your tummy and a roof to keep the sun off your bald spot. But more than that, it was a promise kept. That pension was the reason a lot of miners went into the mines in the first place, and it was the reason a lot of them stayed longer than they should. It was, in a very real sense, the light at the end of a very long, very dark night.

...you have promises to keep!