P000196
Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:27 AM
Victims Fund
Mr Zwick;
I am against any form of Federal Compensation for the
Victims' Families. This will set an enormously bad and
potentially very costly precedent. Will we be
compensating the families of those who died in
Oklahoma City as well? What about future tragedies
unrealted to terrorism? Will families of victims who
are killed in airline disasters be compensated by the
Government? What about soldiers killed in battle?
From now on we are going to have to lay down rules on
which accidents or terrorist incidents qualify for
federal bail-outs. This is ridiculous.
The federal government has absolutely no obligation to
compensate these victims whatsoever. In fact, although
not politically correct, I contend that it is the
victims themselves that are responsible for their own
families well-being, it's called life insurance. We
should have enough life insurance to reasonably cover
our families' expenses for at least two years after
our deaths. If a victims spouse didn't have adequate
life insurance or plans for their family, why should
the federal government (i.e the taxpayers) step in to
bail them out?
This is a matter for private charities. Americans from
every corner of the nation responded by sending
hundreds of millions of dollars to these victims
families', where is that money and why isn't it
getting to those who need it? Instead of Uncle Sam
forking over tax dollars, you should be investigating
some of these so-called charities (Like the Red Cross
for example) who are sitting on all that cash (500
million dollars by some estimates) instead of
disbursing it as was promised.
This truly was a horrific crime and everyone is
sypathetic to their plight, that's why we all sent
those hundreds of millions of dollars in support. Find
out where that charitable money is and make sure it
get's to the right families quickly.
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