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2001-12-21

Friday, December 21, 2001 12:14 PM
Equal compensation

I was so angered when I saw informaton on Good Morning America that this
Victim Compensation was in part based on the person's wages. I, luckily,
have no one that I knew personally in all this tragedy. But my anger for
those persons is real.

On September 11th, there was no separation of pain or destruction depending
on your salary. No one said "ok you have to suffer more because you made
more money" EVERYONE died with the same pain, the same horror. Why should
anyone be given more just because they made more during their day? That is
the role of their employer-to furnish benefits related to their salary.

It is the role of the government to assist those in need WITHOUT PREJUDICE
TO THEIR PAYSTUB !!!

Those who made $200,000 would have many protections in place, such as life
insurance(both personal and employer) and other employer benefits that are
in correlation to the income. The person who made only $20,000 probably had
minimal insurance and minimal other benefits(if any). If anything, those
lower waged people will be harder hit with just trying to get by day to
day--eating, paying for education, medical support, the basics.........

The foundation of America is equality--in the face of the most horrible of
horrible events, our government now says to it's people "We can help, show
us a checkstub!" Whoever made this decision should hang their head in shame
!!

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2001-12-21