tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-722744366515974253.post1605057634262598313..comments2023-09-24T07:27:39.256-07:00Comments on Assoluta Tranquillita: 9/11 rescuers/responders: What price heroism?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-722744366515974253.post-17629899276834286552010-03-20T10:24:00.370-07:002010-03-20T10:24:00.370-07:00Brat--- I did not even have to read the article. I...Brat--- I did not even have to read the article. I have mixed emotions about all of this anyway. Many of the rescuers refused the safety equipment. That is fact. I live with milaria.I would not always take my meds. I am an adult. I have emphymsema. I smoked. Granted I began that habit burning leeches of in Nam, but I kept it up when I got home. I am an adult. That being said, everything always comes down to money. You are all complaining about the government, but it all comes back to taxpayers. Simply put, just take care of these people. The real problem is the it should not even have taken legal action. The waste of funds is there. The only reason there is a favorable decision at all is judges taking care of their brethren; lawyers. They could care less about the patriots who selflessly served in this incredible time. If the government had stepped up and done what was right without all the crap it would have saved millions, served its people, avoided all this negative garbage, and we would not be here. The same is true of my Agent Orange issue, the nuclear testing in the fifties, and any number of issues facing our chemically damaged soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It continues ad nauseum. The lawyers are the only winners---and as a lawyer friend of mine once said, "Judges make decisions based on the fact that they too may again be lawyers one day."Poet Warriorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11206593737020121774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-722744366515974253.post-2462661262383926072010-03-18T10:24:52.546-07:002010-03-18T10:24:52.546-07:00$657 million is small enough considering how many ...$657 million is small enough considering how many ways that the money has to be divided. The lawyers get a third, and the many workers split the rest. Too small a payment for the high price they have paid.<br /><br />SylviaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com