N001365
Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:55 PM
Sept 11 Funds
I don't think its fair that tax dollars are used to
compensate for the victims' families. What about
future terrorist acts? Is our country plan to
compensate everyone for every terrorist acts? How
will we determine terrorist acts? The killings on Long
Island train or massacre at various high schools some
years ago, weren't they terrorist acts? or were they
classified as "insane acts"? What difference does it
make? result is all the same! Deaths and grave
tradegy!
Furthermore, to have the compensation based on
victim's earning potential is just obsurd! I have a
lot of compassion for helping people in needs but I
certainly don't see the need to use our tax dollar to
help maintain the life style of victim's families!
(compensation based on earnings is doing just that!).
I have been a hard worker all my life and paying taxes
all along! Our countries need the money to fight the
war on terrorism! People die of various causes all the
time! These other people were not "compensated" by
our country for their death, however wrongful!
I understand that this is a part of the airline bail
out package to avoid victims' law suits. I wonder if
our great country will be bankrupted by all the law
suites! Our culture has become a culture that abuse
their rights to sue! Frivolous law suits are
everywhere. From the McDonald's coffee being too hot
to a thief breaking a leg while robbing a house.. All
these idiotic law suite should have been thrown out
before they get to the court! And to know the outcome
being even more absurd than the lawsuits themselves.
one can understand why living costs have climb so much
and so fast! I am absolutely behind law suits as a
result of real wrongful death and believe in "punitive
damage" as in the case of the PG&E's dumping of toxic
waste. But what "wrong" had the World Trade Buildings
owner or leaser done on Sept 11th? No Wrong! It's not
the fault of our government, not the fault of the WTC,
not the fault of the employers who had chosen offices
inside the WTC! I think compensation by the outpouring
of private donations is enough! Goverment should bar
lawsuites against the WTC owner and leaser, lawsuites
against airlines. In the case of Sept 11, the airport
security wasn't breeched! The knifes the terrorist
carried were allowed on and before that date. What
failed was our own perception about hijacking! Had we
adopted the policies of Israeli Airline of 'no entry
to cockpit' then the terrorist couldn't have taken
control of the plane.
Now we have all learned a great lesson! Painfully yes.
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