P000182
Saturday, January 26, 2002 7:32 PM
Federal Compensation
I cannot believe that people are calling the victims families greedy. That's
because Mr. Feinberg has led everyone to believe that the average payment
families would be getting would be $1.6 million. The truth of the matter is
that after the deductions of life insurance (that the deceased paid for
himself) social security to the children (even thought the deceased paid into
social security and will never collected any benefits), pensions (in some
cases the deceased paid into his own 401K because he was self-employed so it
was like a savings account), the government will be giving some families
nothing because the deceased had planned for the future, a future that has
been taken away from him. This makes no sense to me. The package was to
prevent families from suing and to compensate them for their loss. However,
Mr. Feinberg doesn't care if some families get nothing. These men in some
cases made a very good salary. So now the families have no husband, no
father, no salary. He also decides when he thinks a person would have
retired. He also discriminates against the higher wage earners. He wants to
give $250,000 for pain and suffering. Is that the going rate for someone who
has to spend maybe the next 25 years alone because her husband and companion
is gone. There isn't enough money in the world to pay for what has been lost
an the lives that have been destroyed. Mr. Feinberg doesn't want to give a
fair amount to these families. Maybe we should ask Mr. Feinberg's wife what
a fair amount would be if her husband was in those buildings.
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