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. Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:35 PM Comment on Victim Compensation Fund After reading many of the comments on this site, it is sad to see the idealistic virtues of those who died for others in diminished by those who, like flies to a carcass, seek to feed off of the tradedy of others. I was somewhat concerned that the September 11th fund, while gracious and considerate, went beyond the legitimate mandate of government to provide for the general, rather than individual, welfare. I had no expectation of anything but gratitude for this exceptional effort by government to offer charity to individuals not associated with official government activities. I found it disheartening to see those same individuals biting the very hand that had never offered such financial benefits to other victims of disasters beyond immediate survival assistance and, in some case, low interest loans to help them get back on their feet. I find the whole September 11th fund both bad and improper precident to be taking. The sense of entitlement from the *government* by those who are already the beneficiaries of hundreds of millions of dollars already collected by the private sector for their welfare is a grotesque reaction to the bounty offered, even if improperly, of the people of the United States through their elected representatives. It is not the purpose of government to maintain the "lifestyle," rich or less so, to which people are accustomed. It is a perversion of the principles of democratic government to ignore the truly poor and listen to the ugly whining of those who, through extremely unfortunate circumstances to be sure, want to maintain their large houses or profligate lifestyles (as so many who sadly died in the World Trade Towers were capable of providing, and to whom I begrudge nothing). Millions of people yearly go through the same heartbreaking death or poverty-through-illness (myself included) without so much as a peep that the government somehow required to provide us with our former level of lifestyle. I, in fact, wrote my representative when the issue of disability payments possibly being reduced many years ago by the government asking her to vote in favor (despite the fact that I had paid the government enforced premiums for the insurance that could have been better spent in the private sector insurance market). And my pain and suffering continue in a very real and physical sense, never mind the pain and suffering from being completely isolated from the world of accomplishment I used to know. Evidently the decade of greed declared to have occurred in the 1980's is really only now beginning to accumulate real momentum. Individual Comment Salt Lake City, UT September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-06 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 dojP000445.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. 2002-02-06