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dojN000831.xml

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2001-12-23

Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:20 AM
Compensation Fund-why?

I am a law abiding, tax paying citizen. I don't
understand why our government should feel the need to
"compensate" for Sept 11th's victims' families for the
"loss of salary and pain and suffering"? and to have
the compensation so high (into millions of dollars per
victim) and to base the compensation on age and
earning capabilities. Shouldn't human lives be valued
the same? Or are we judged by our "earning
potentials"?
The truth of matter is people die of various reasons
all the time. What about the families of the victims
of the Oklahoma bombing? What about the military
personnels who die in the line of duty or those who
died as result of "Gulf war syndromes". What about the
people died of Anthrax and on and on... Are the
families of these deaths getting the same millions? I
think not.
I don't mind our government helping out victim
families. But it must be fair!
1) compensation should never be based on age or
"earning potentials! It should be based entirely on
number of dependents (under age of 22 to include
college education) left behind.
Helping out dependants is a humane thing to do. But I
just don't see the validity in giving money to
victim's sisters or brothers or parents. Why should
they stand to gain monetarily?
2) funds such as "free money" should not be in the
millions! I can see giving out a few hundres of
thousands to help out in the short term but millions
from our tax money is just too high and too unfair to
other victims who got little help from the government.

This fund needs major amendments.


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2001-12-23