[hobblemaster]

This is an excert fromt the article. Click on the link to read the entire article.

[Gamma-131-I]

And they expected something else???

Those that are complaining because the Federal Government isn't taking enough from the taxpayers to give to them have absolutely no concept of gratitude and will never be satisfied as long as they think they can get more. And heaven forbid they should decide that someone else might have gotten more than they did.

By the way, I heard the report the other day that the man in charge of overseeing the Federal Distributions basically said he wasn't going to get into the God business of deciding who's life was worth more. Good for him.

Fie on Pataki and Spitzer and their attempt to get pain and suffering and all the other legal mumbo jumbo justifications figured into this mess. What do they think this is? A massive class-action suit?

[ben richards]

Whenever someone says, "It's not about the money", it's about the money. (usually)

[DonQ]

It is worth noting that a lot of the families devastated by the WTC attacks lost their primary breadwinner, and many of them were either underinsured or else their employer company also vanished in the wreckage, so getting compensation in a normal way will be nearly impossible.

[Lancey Howard]

It seems like some of the victims' families, having mostly overcome their shock and grief, now look at September 11th as the day they hit the lottery. How smarmy.

[Henrietta]

These people don't deserve 1 thin dime from the taxpayers. Thousands of people die in accidents every year. Just because their loved ones die in a really big accident, they think the rest of us owe them something? Since when? WE didn't fly an airplane into their office building. These people should look to charity, neighbors, and family if they are struggling. If their loved one was not insured, well that's life...let it be a lesson to the rest of us to make sure our families are better cared for.

[Lancey Howard]

I suppose the surviving families should get as much as the families of those 58,000 names on the Wall. Or as much as the families of the Marines who were killed by a terrorist's truck bomb in Beirut. Or as much as the family of the guy who was driving down the highway, and as he listened to radio reports about the 9-11 attacks, missed a red light and was killed by a truck.

But some of these families that are claiming they should "never want for anything for the rest of their lives" (true quote) can take a hike. Not only can they count on money from the government and scumbag political panderers like Hillary!, but there was what?, a billion?, dollars given freely by fellow countrymen who naively believed that the charities would forward it to these families rather than enrich their executives and push political causes.

I am up to here with the grieving families, and it's a shame because most of them are grateful and decent, and they are being dragged down by the greedy scumbag contingent.