N001999
Friday, January 18, 2002 2:21 PM
Absolutely terrible
As an American citizen and taxpayer, I am outraged by the distribution
proposals for this fund. This fund was created to protect both the
families and the airlines; however, it seems to me that the airlines are
the ones who will most find relief. While there is nothing that can
make the deaths of so many loved ones less painful for the affected
families, the least we can do as a society is to try to provide ALL
families with monetary comfort. I do not see how we can differentiate
between the families -- in the name of fairness, the fund should be
distributed EQUALLY to ALL who were affected. How can you penalize a
family who scrimped and saved to purchase life insurance? Perhaps they
have less saved than others who did not pay out the sums to purchase
such security. Also, addressing the most outrageous shortcoming of this
proposal, how do you discriminate against the families of those men and
women who sacrificed their lives to save others? Yes, firefighters,
police officers, and other emergency workers have a level of danger in
their jobs, but the September 11 terrorist attacks went beyond any
"reasonable" risk one could have imagined. Thus, their pensions and
line of duty compensation should be considered above and beyond any
other compensatory awards. Anything less is an insult to the heroic
efforts of these men and women (how many thousands of people did they
save on September 11?) and their families who now must live without
them.
I do hope you reconsider the distribution of this fund. Our
Constitution says that "All people are created equal"; it would be nice
if the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund reflected this.
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