N002346
Tuesday, January 22, 2002 6:51 PM
Victim Comp Comment
Why is the government paying anything to anyone concerned with the Twin Towers/Pentagon tragedy? The only people that should be getting anything from the government is the military personnel who were killed or the civil servants who were killed and had an insurance policy. We can't and should not expect the government to pay for a situation like this when there is no way to prevent someone who is willing to give up their life for a cause. We did not pay the families of the Oklahoma bombing, any embassy bombing, 93 UN bombing, McDonalds shooting in Cal, disenchanted postal employee, disenchanted individual with the stockmarket in Atlanta, etc. All of these events left peoples lives destroyed but we did not try to make them whole or take care of their families for the rest of their lives. The American public made extremely large contrributions to the Twin Towers funds and this, along with the insurance policies that each of these families have should be the extent of compensation. We all feel for each of the victims and their families but the government can not take on every victims family for everyone that may be killed by the numerous idiots that are in this world. Why is someone who was killed by a terrorist who happens to be from another country any more of a victim than someone killed by a demented person from the U. S.
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