Sept. 11th Indian Givers
Posted by StormWarning on 15 Nov 2005 at 11:16 pm | Tagged as: Opinions
Shame on Congress!
Purely, unemotionally, totally and irretrievably…
Congressional budget negotiators have decided to take back $125 million in Sept. 11 aid from New York, which had fought to keep the money to treat sick and injured ground zero workers, lawmakers said Tuesday.
New York’s elected officials had sought for months to hold onto the funding, originally aimed to pay for workers compensation costs stemming from the 2001 terrorist attacks…[more]
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny–sept11aid1115nov15,0,2559531.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1316115
…and in my opinion, indefensible.
Just what do "we" (in the NY City area) have to do? The First Responders of September 11th deserve to be treated with respect. This doesn’t seem to be the right way.
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Well, they gave it back!
City to get back 125M in 9/11 aid
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/368206p-313316c.html
Relenting to political pressure from New York lawmakers, Congress has done an abrupt about-face and pledged to reinstate $125 million in aid to 9/11 first-responders.
“The money will go to where it rightfully belongs, to those who responded so heroically on Sept. 11,” Rep. Vito Fossella (R-S.I.) said yesterday. “We will now be able to help them in return.”
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledged to preserve the endangered funds, which are earmarked for cops, firefighters and other workers battling health issues related to the World Trade Center collapse…[more]