Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Monday, January 07, 2002 11:52 AM Recent complaints re: $250,000 cap Dear Mr. Feinburg: I'm still trying to make some equitable-seeming sense out of our current system of allocating salary dollars and recompense under normal circumstances, let alone after a unique disaster. I'm shocked and appalled, and very disappointed, that some individuals are living in such a rare and well-gilded ivory tower that they feel $250,000 is not sufficient compensation for a death. Most of us, the working people of America, make $20,000-40,000 per year, at least here in Florida, a "right-to-work" state. The last time a man died on the job here that I'm personally familiar with, he was an impoverished black man impaled on rusted steel rebar after falling through a rotten roof with no safety handrails, markers, or any such. The company who owned the roof in question paid a crew overtime to put up the obligatory safety rails before the OSHA inspector arrived several days later. The man's family was paid $10,000 plus medical expenses. The company is a VERY wealthy multinational, who immediately sold the plant. This is what life is like for many people in our country. Where do these wealthy, spoiled, greedy, already-living-off-the-upper-end-of-the-scale folks in New York get off, pretending that what happened to them was so uniquely horrible that anyone related to them should be made an instant billionaire? I'm over it. Yeah, it was unique. Yeah, it was horrible. Yeah, I sent money to help. AND AFTER READING ABOUT THEM SUING FOR MORE MONEY, NOW I BEGIN TO REGRET IT; it's obviously not appreciated at all! Some lawyer cutely commenting that you can get more money for a slip'n'fall. If he can't legally be shot, at least let's disbar him! Greedy jerks. Wake up and become aware there's a real world out there. Get a job. Come to Florida and see how the rest of us live, and then tell us about how $250,000 is peanuts. People around here are expressing the views I'm presenting very loudly. Public sentiment here has turned against these noisy people who seem to be shouting about some imaginary "ongoing victimization" in a manner that makes no sense to any of us here, and frankly which "smells like" false excitement drummed up for greedy personal financial gain. Let's just go over it again. I make $20-40k/year. I live in what these folks would consider an antique hovel. I literally don't have reliable heat, A/C, plumbing, or automobile... and there are holes in my roof. Want to talk about economic victimization? Guess what line of work I'm in! Same as most of the World Trade Center victims (some of whom I was marginally acquained with), I'm a financial services professional! In a right-to-work state, for a small company. These New York folks already live in castles, they're already being given more money than many of us make GROSS in 10 years...and they DEMAND more of my tax dollars and personal donations so they'll feel more secure and comfortable, on top of the world, have their kid's fancy college paid for, buy another Beamer and won't have to work for a lifetime or so??? You've gotta be kidding. We were all happy to give a LOT... and they want to whine and legally badger us for more? Fools. The world has truly gone mad. I have a counter-proposal... how about they voluntarily give impoverished Florida financial professionals a 10% donation out of their settlements to help us? Since the large dollar amounts the victims made were directly caused by the industry's centralization in New York? Since if all the big companies and all the systems were based here instead of there, WE would be making the big bucks, and the world would be coming to us, not them? And then we'd be a target, and perhaps one way to look at it is that the bigger bucks are in part "hazard pay". If some of these folks realized what it's actually like out in the "hinterlands"... especially compared to the Big Apple fantasy-land they've been inhabiting... I wonder if they'd change their thinking? I like to think so anyway. I'm writing you this email because you were quoted as expressing concern about this, and I'm hoping this feedback may be of some interest or assistance. At the very least, for those who think $250,000 is peanuts, perhaps you can suggest they should all move to Florida or some similar state where their money will go about 10 times further than it will in New York City. Regards, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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