I cannot believe that something so simple, something so basic as taking care of the 1st responders who on 911 saved lives and risked their own is so difficult.
Some things are beyond the daily sparring and slashing of left/right politics and this is one of them. Our system finds excuses to let sick people stay sick, and i for one have finally had it.
Yesterdays bill...
It failed to win the needed two-thirds majority, 255-159. The
vote was largely along party lines, with 12 Republicans joining Democrats supporting the measure.
For weeks, a judge and teams of lawyers have been urging 10,000 former ground zero workers to sign on to a court-supervised settlement that would split $713 million among people who developed respiratory problems and other illnesses after inhaling trade center ash.
Read the rest for yourself
http://news.yahoo.com/...
This is proof of the system wide failure that began on 9/11 and continues TO THIS DAY.
Fact: More people will die due to dust inhalation then ON 9/11
http://www.usatoday.com/...
We are still paying for Afghanistan, we are still paying for Iraq, we are paying to cover Wall Street and on and on and on. I've had it. How about spending our money on things we actually WANT you to use it for?