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. Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:18 PM Fairly compensating victims while not penalizing charities. Folks, When I pay my taxes, I expect my representatives to provide help our neighbors in need by providing at least minimal support during times of crisis. When I voluntarily give money to charities, I expect them to help our neighbors in a timely way, often exceeding the threshold for need that I would have the government use with other peoples involuntarily collected money. I do not expect my voluntary contributions to benefit the government, easing the burden of all tax payers. When I buy insurance I expect these firms to fulfill their commercial obligations to me. If I were to become a victim, I would not expect to be able to reap a windfall by collecting multiple times to meet the same need. Coordination of payment is reasonable. There is no dilemma because the distribution rule is simple: - The government should determine need without regard to insurance and charity. - From this is subtracted insurance and charity received. - The charity is reimbursed by the government for money provided to the victim by the charity. Let's analyze the consequences: - Private charitable contributions for victim relief don't end up becoming government relief. - Victims do not receive a windfall. - Charities are have incentive to help victims immediately, rather than wait until after government disbursements. - Charity monies help twice, first by responding more quickly than the government agencies, then after being reimbursed, by providing additional relief beyond the minimum provided by government programs. - Charities are incented to share their records with government since the reward for preventing a windfall to individual victims will be a reimbursement of prior contributions. This may appear to be expensive to the government, however, if charitable contributors find that their money is simply reducing government obligations, their contributions will dry up. Regards, Individual Comment Glen Ridge, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000153.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. 2001-11-06