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Outraged about the Sep 11 victims compensation fund

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marcio

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I've tried to rationalize this, and I just can't come to a valid reasoning as to why taxpayers have to pay an average of 1.85 million dollars tax free to each victim's family. I know it was tragedy, I know that they should be financially aided by the taxpayers, but come on, making them millionaires?! Victims of the Oklahoma bombing didn't get this type of compensation. Families of our soldiers don't get this type of compensation. What ticks me off even more is if the victim was poor, his/her family would receive just a couple of hundred thousand dollars; that is, taxpayers are keeping richer families rich and poor families poor.

If I had known this would happen I wouldn't have donated a cent last September.

Anyway, I don't see anything about this on tv, so maybe it's just me who feel this way. Just to check I'm creating a poll.
 
Plus the fact that the government has ignored that type of payout for all the past acts of terrorism. The U.S. embassies in Kenya being one example, Oklahoma city, etc, etc. The wtc bombings were a tragedy beyond all comparison, but if I had my choice I would rather give my part to the sailors families who relatives were killed aboard the U.S.S. Cole. I bet those families hardly got anything other than their basic insurance payouts.
 
OK, first off I'd like to say that I was horribly shocked and saddened by 9/11 and that this in no way relates how I feel about what happened, but rather the question at hand about the fund.

Yes, I know 3000+ people died, but still this is too much money. Their lives were taken away from them without warning, and they certainly didn't sign up to be put into such a situation. But still, this is an outrageous sum of money, and I wholeheartedly agree with the post (at the present time) that is above me. If they go with this amount of money, they will be setting a very high standard to base funds for the future off of. The trauma of 9/11, in my opinion, can't (and hopefully won't) be recreated, but even something like say...the USS Cole was equally as tragic as 9/11 from the family's perspective.

Hypothetically, say the Smiths lost their son on the USS Cole. They lost one family member to an act of terrorism.
Now say the Jones lost their son in the WTC. They also lost one family member to an act of terrorism.

Any other trauma the Jones feel, millions upon millions of other people, worldwide, felt as well. I don't think they should receive so much more money than the Smiths. I agree that they should receive MORE, but this is outrageous.
 
I thought it was 1700 found...but 3000+ expected. I could be wrong, I couldn't even bring myself to read anything about 9/11 after awhile.
 
I think the number is in the 2800 range right now.

As for that payout, I don't like it. What about all these peoples personal insurance policies? They have to pay out I imagine, and probably double indemnity due to the facts surrounding it. I don't know about all the victims but I am sure that the majority had these benefits through work or personally.

I don't even understand WHY the gov is compensating them. I must have missed something.

It was terrible and tragic but I am a bit confused, as always...
 
I do beleve the total is still over 3000, it was way up there for a while, but was then dropped down to this.

I also think that it is not an area for the government to compinsate in. This is setting a dangerous precident for compensation for all sorts of issues. It will just end in more government dependance. Some people have told me about my obvious lack of conection to the issue, and not caring...well then I just show them the pic's out my dorm window of the ruins. *sigh*

Armani
 
Did anyone watch Region in Conflict yesterday on MSNBC? Ashleigh Banfield was interviewing several students from a Jordanian Unversity, and one of students said that she couldn't stop laughing when she first heard that the WTC towers had collapsed.
 


<< this is our social security money? >>



Just what I was thinking...😕 Yes, I believe that it is TOO much money! Oh well, it's not like we can change it or nething-

-Peace
 
The only thing that bothers me is that future victims of terror will seek compensation from the US government. We cant afford to do that. People are going to come to grips with losses in thier lives and deal with it the best they can, just like everyone else does/did throughout human history.
 
Hell yeah it's too much friggin' money. If either of my parents died tomorrow, I wouldn't be a millionare. And I shouldn't be! You shouldn't profit off the death of a loved one.

If you lost a loved one in Sept 11, I'm sorry. I feel for you. But that's what insurance is for. You want more money? Go work!
 


<< Just what I was thinking...😕 Yes, I believe that it is TOO much money! Oh well, it's not like we can change it or nething-

-Peace >>



Dear GOD!!!!!!

Well, this comment has finaly convinced me of the complete failure of our form of government. Revolution anyone?

Armani
 
Remember when everyone was throwing a fit about how much of the money donated to the Red Cross was not being given to the victim's families?
Remember how Red Cross then decided to give ALL of the donations it received to the families?

I knew that the families would receive compensation elsewhere, so I was ticked when that happened. When I donated money to the Red Cross, I wanted it to go to the Red Cross to help them out and also to help keep them around for future disasters and such.

Too bad RC can't get their money back from the millionare families now.
 
dosent the people eligible for compensation include:

children who died, but were living independently

people with families who are already being compensated by various other non=profit organizations

and besides that, if the US government set precedence by handing out money to families every time innocent civilians died, wouldnt that just give certain people more reason to kill people?
 
You want to know what's really f'd up ?! Two parents of people I know are being compensated for loss of work time because of 9/11. They were given money (a substantial amount, no less) once... then called back to receive more because there was some left over. Then AGAIN. THREE different times they received money because there was some left over. And it certainly made up for lost wages alright.

W T F is wrong here...
 


<< this is our social security money? >>



I'll bet you my whole social security that it is. Not to mention our even more gigantic military budget.
 


<< Hell yeah it's too much friggin' money. If either of my parents died tomorrow, I wouldn't be a millionare. And I shouldn't be! You shouldn't profit off the death of a loved one.

If you lost a loved one in Sept 11, I'm sorry. I feel for you. But that's what insurance is for. You want more money? Go work! >>


Exactly. I mean it sucks that people died in this tragedy, but every day a lot of people die. How many of those families get this kind of cash?
 
The money cannot bring back the lost ones so I could understand like normal wages of firefighters/police & others killed to the family for every year and then like a one time $300,000 lump sum. This is just too much money.
 
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