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. Friday, December 21, 2001 6:55 AM Comment aboutthe Interim Final Rule I believe everyone working as hard as they can since the September 11th tragedy should be commended. I think President Bush is doing the best job he can right now and the best job he knows how to do, despite what he has already been through in attaining the position he now holds. Believe me, I would not want his job for anything in the world. HOWEVER, what I do want and what I want the United States Government to know, realize, and understand is that there a lot more people suffering in this country than those who are the actual victims or related to those who became victims of this tragedy. Due to the severity of the situation and the already crumbling economy, this country almost came to a screeching halt, economically speaking, in the days and weeks following this event. I live in a mid sized city (about 38,000 people) on the Wisconsin side of the WI/IL border. This community has been know to many of the residents living here for any length of time as a welfare town. About half of the residents living in this community live at or below the poverty level. I have lived there, and I know how difficult it can be on a good day. However in the 2 years prior to the attacks in New York, we have lost most of the major businesses in this city to bankruptcies and business decisions to move, that we almost have nothing going for this town if one is out of a job and needing one. There are, of course, the minimum wage jobs, and only a select number of those, but one cannot support himself, much less and dependents on what that brings home. That, and once one has earned above a certain wage, no one paying that low will hire that person for fear of him leaving if he were offered another position for more money. I have more than once been told I was over qualified because of how much I have made in the past. Since the attacks, companies all around this area and around the country are downsizing due to lack of work and to try to save capital expenses, which leaves those workers to try to find something else in our already impoverished country. Not only are the wages no longer there, but neither are the insurance premiums, which all families need, and some more than others. If one has the opportunity to be a stay-at-home parents, then they do not even qualify for Medicare. (I would be glad to discuss this with someone of they would care to get in touch with me.) So now, not only are there direct victims of this tragedy, which they all obviously are in need during this time of crisis, but so are the rest of the country, whose taxes are going to be raised to help support the funds needed to help those more obviously in need than themselves. Good luck to the President and may God give him the wisdom to make the right choices. Good luck for the rest of the government branches, and may God give them the wisdom to work together with everyone to come up with a way to wisely see us all through this together. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-21 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 dojN000334.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-12-21