With all due huzzahs for the First Responders of 9-11, here's my question, if you will pardon the length of it:
The people at issue were essentially all employees of the various government entities of "New York." As such, they had employer-paid medical insurance, workmen's comp, disability insurance (short and long term), generous PTO allowances, inexpensive, subsidized life insurance, and what most Americans would deem ridiculously early retirement potential. Plus, with all of that, they were well compensated during this effort, and probably scoring hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of compensated OT.
So with all that going for them, what, exactly, are they looking for the U.S. taxpayers to provide?
Tangentially, one might note that the families of those who died in "9-11" had the same sorts of perks and benefits from their employers, and the U.S. taxpayers forked over MILLIONS to each and every one of those families... in the same manner as though WE were driving those fucking planes into the buildings, and we were financially responsible in a wrongful death lawsuit. On what basis was that funded? People die at work all the time; that's why, if we are prudent, we have INSURANCE.
It really pisses me off when politicians show their "generosity" and "compassion" with my fucking tax dollars.
Seriously, what exactly are the U.S. taxpayers being asked to pay for with respect to these First Responders - that is not already being funded by their generous package of employee benefits?
The people at issue were essentially all employees of the various government entities of "New York." As such, they had employer-paid medical insurance, workmen's comp, disability insurance (short and long term), generous PTO allowances, inexpensive, subsidized life insurance, and what most Americans would deem ridiculously early retirement potential. Plus, with all of that, they were well compensated during this effort, and probably scoring hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of compensated OT.
So with all that going for them, what, exactly, are they looking for the U.S. taxpayers to provide?
Tangentially, one might note that the families of those who died in "9-11" had the same sorts of perks and benefits from their employers, and the U.S. taxpayers forked over MILLIONS to each and every one of those families... in the same manner as though WE were driving those fucking planes into the buildings, and we were financially responsible in a wrongful death lawsuit. On what basis was that funded? People die at work all the time; that's why, if we are prudent, we have INSURANCE.
It really pisses me off when politicians show their "generosity" and "compassion" with my fucking tax dollars.
Seriously, what exactly are the U.S. taxpayers being asked to pay for with respect to these First Responders - that is not already being funded by their generous package of employee benefits?