Didja see any Facebook posts today about the two hillbillies killed in a West Virginia coal mine accident?

They were Americans, working guys refusing to take welfare in a poor part of the country during a recession. They join the 29 miners killed in 2010 about 10 miles away.

Didja hear any tea party jibber jabber demanding a "full investigation?" Any dark muttering about "how would you feel if one of those miners was your son?"

Nope. The silence is as thick as it is in a coal mine, just after the blast but before they start digging for the bodies.

Federal officials say the mine had so many safety violations, it was deemed a "pattern violator," which does not scare mine owners because the designation does not close down the mine.

In 2007, six miners died in Utah. Remember them? Didn't think so.

It's dangerous down in a mine. Everybody knows it's dangerous. So, the men who died made the choice to go down into a mine hung with safety violations like a Christmas tree is hung with tinsel.

"They could have just gotten another job," the cold-eyed working class puppets of the rich say. "They HAD a choice."

Lesson for working people? If you want a big splash when you die, get yourself killed by a Muslim. If you die because some fellow American get you an unsafe place to work, expect indifference. You earned it.

How many Americans kill themselves when the plant where they work skips to China? How many drink themselves to death in sorrow and worthlessness?

How many people die for the stock price? How many die for the dividend? How many die for the chairman of the board's new Rolex watch?

Who cares?

They weren't in Benghazi, which is the one holy, sacred, important place to die.

America is full of Benghazis, leaky gas pipes, unsafe machinery, forced overtime until you're tired enough to feed your left hand into a machine, until your eyes are blurry enough to run the log truck off the road.

A Benghazi a day. Maybe two. And no cries for a "thorough investigation," no toad-fat congressmen reading statements of outrage. Stick the hillbillies in the ground and get the next shift to work. Tow the log truck to the shop and hire another driver. The last driver is being dug out from under the load.

No Islamic terrorist in history has ever done as much damage to America as the last 25 years of union busting, downsizing, offshoring and pension-fund looting. And nobody says a damn thing, except to defend the free market.

If the Islamic terrorists were really smart, they'd take the money they spend on bombs and guns, and they'd buy stock in American companies. Then, they could kill Americans and nobody would care because they'd be 'job creators" and therefore immune from all punishment.

Benghazi? It's a town in West Virginia.

To find out more about Marc Munroe Dion and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Dion's book of Pulitzer Prize-nominated columns, "Between Wealth and Welfare: A liberal Curmudgeon in America" is available for Kindle and Nook.