ok, you may all think i'm coldhearted...
that is, if you don't think that already
I'd like to know: Why on earth are the families of 9-11 victims entitled to a government payout? I watched an archived news report the other day that said the average compensation was to exceed a million per family. If it were up to me, no one would get a dime of a single government dollar. if there is help it would have to come from the private sector.
why would i say such a thing?
one day while i was in my 7th grade English class on a beautiful sunny morning a horrific explosion rocked the building, breaking windows and knocking pictures off the wall. the day was April 19th and 168 people from my Oklahoma City community died.
not a single person who's family member died that day is getting a fraction of what every single relative of a WTC casualty seems to be uniformly entitled to. am i griping that we didn't get our fair share of government charity? absolutely not.
my point is, why is it that the victims of 9-11 are so different? what makes them different from the families of civilians who are kiled in American embassy bombings? what makes them more entitled to a MILLION FREAKIN DOLLARS than a poor police officer who is gunned down in cold blood on a texas highway because he happened to pull over the wrong car?
too bad it would be career suicide for a politician to bring this up.