Millionaire 911 widows
I'm watching television with the husband and I just cant believe what I'm seeing.
It's hard enough to sit here and watch the whole grizzly 911 event again, and even to see footage I never hoped to have ever witnessed - LEST WE FORGET. But to see a bunch of obviously highly distressed women relate how they were offered "blood money" and to see their struggle with the "system" is actually something I have become really angry and passionate about in my post Chicken Jalfrezzi haze...
In a nutshell...
The government and all the superduperstars (including Goldie) of the world managed to raise about 10 BILLION dollars for compensation within about a few weeks - certainly 2 billion in the first week. The compensation was dished out on a BY EARNINGS basis - ie, the rich got more, the janitors got a few thousand, because they aren't obviously as American, nor did their families suffer as much; or their Bollinger bills weren't as high.
So the trust fund for compensation tells everyone that they will get so much (however American they are) on the condition that they wont sue the airlines or the World Trade Centre. Because it was - so like the WTC's fault for being so high, and like having offices in it.
So when one woman decides to SUE (yes mam, the favourite American pastime) the fund for discriminating on the compensation, what does the fund's spokesperson say?
something like:
Compensation couldn't all be equal, that's just not American.
And there we have it.
Kathy Trent got 7 million and spent 5 million on "stuff" after losing her husband. I acknowledge that no amount of compensation money could ever give this woman back her life or her husband, so was it fair that she got a right rogering in the press? At least she didn't wrap her freshly liposucked thighs around one of the "firefighters who left their wives for their friend's millionaire widows". tsk.
Some families actually !!shock horror!! Didn't access the fund because they had a shred of dignity and realised that no money could compensate their loss. I bet they're all a lot more at peace with the world than the others, who knows. They were probably smart enough to realise that some insurance fat cat was going to place some value on their loved one which was proportionate to his/her predeath income. But, tell me...Aren't we all equal in the eyes of your big fat GOD? Hmmmmmmmm?
I could go on but its actually boring even me right now.
What I want to know is how America, Gods own country, could raise so much money (probably close to 10 billion) so quickly for its worst act of terror, but sat and watched its people drown and starve to death in appalling conditions only a couple of years later in New Orleans in its worst natural disaster.
Of course we all know the answer to that.
God Bless America.
It's hard enough to sit here and watch the whole grizzly 911 event again, and even to see footage I never hoped to have ever witnessed - LEST WE FORGET. But to see a bunch of obviously highly distressed women relate how they were offered "blood money" and to see their struggle with the "system" is actually something I have become really angry and passionate about in my post Chicken Jalfrezzi haze...
In a nutshell...
The government and all the superduperstars (including Goldie) of the world managed to raise about 10 BILLION dollars for compensation within about a few weeks - certainly 2 billion in the first week. The compensation was dished out on a BY EARNINGS basis - ie, the rich got more, the janitors got a few thousand, because they aren't obviously as American, nor did their families suffer as much; or their Bollinger bills weren't as high.
So the trust fund for compensation tells everyone that they will get so much (however American they are) on the condition that they wont sue the airlines or the World Trade Centre. Because it was - so like the WTC's fault for being so high, and like having offices in it.
So when one woman decides to SUE (yes mam, the favourite American pastime) the fund for discriminating on the compensation, what does the fund's spokesperson say?
something like:
Compensation couldn't all be equal, that's just not American.
And there we have it.
Kathy Trent got 7 million and spent 5 million on "stuff" after losing her husband. I acknowledge that no amount of compensation money could ever give this woman back her life or her husband, so was it fair that she got a right rogering in the press? At least she didn't wrap her freshly liposucked thighs around one of the "firefighters who left their wives for their friend's millionaire widows". tsk.
Some families actually !!shock horror!! Didn't access the fund because they had a shred of dignity and realised that no money could compensate their loss. I bet they're all a lot more at peace with the world than the others, who knows. They were probably smart enough to realise that some insurance fat cat was going to place some value on their loved one which was proportionate to his/her predeath income. But, tell me...Aren't we all equal in the eyes of your big fat GOD? Hmmmmmmmm?
I could go on but its actually boring even me right now.
What I want to know is how America, Gods own country, could raise so much money (probably close to 10 billion) so quickly for its worst act of terror, but sat and watched its people drown and starve to death in appalling conditions only a couple of years later in New Orleans in its worst natural disaster.
Of course we all know the answer to that.
God Bless America.
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