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Originally posted by zysin5
Belive what you want about 911.. These are some cold true facts about the men and women who gave so much to save those with so much less!
As I stated before.. This isnt about buildings or inside jobs.. This is about the human factor that seemed to sit on the way side, for how many God Damn years now? Close to 8 freakin years.. Shameful!
Id like to find a couple debunkers to come into this thread and tell me what they think about all this..
I'd like a few answers to all this.. I think our government owes us some answers on this..
Originally posted by exponent
This may be the first thread I have flagged on ATS, but i cannot disagree with the sentiment. Rescue workers sacrificed their health in an effort to save people, the very least that can be done is to cover their healthcare costs entirely.
I am a debunker I guess. What would you like to know?
Originally posted by zysin5
What does this tell you about our government? Does this thread not raise a valid question?
And once that question is raised.. Could that lead you to wonder more about 911?
Such as lets just say for the sake of argument.. The officals story is the truth.. So if the offical story is the truth.. And Terroists attacked us.. Why are these firefighters being harmed and treated this way..
Wouldnt it make more sense that our government might have had some hand in all this?
Now Im not trying to put words in your mouth.. Or tell you what to belive.
But to me.. They really want these guys to just die off..
Thus people are dying, and nothing is being done to stop this.. While at the same time they Bail out wallstreet and friends..
Its utter insanity..
So ask yourself.. Is this right?
Ask yourself.. Is this something a good government would do to its own "Heroes"?
I don't think it does raise a valid question about 911 no. I don't trust the US Government any more than I trust my own government (the UK Government), and in my eyes they're treating the firefighters this way because they're easy to ignore. They set up some funds for them which were good, but obviously some firefighters are still suffering.
To me it makes much more sense to keep them happy and contented, becuase if they did see something, then denying them coverage will only lead to bitterness and resentment, and any possibly negative facts they have will be made public.
I don't quite think they're bailing out individual friends, more the companies these friends work for, but yes there's no reason they cannot spare a few million to pay for the healthcare of any rescue worker. Of course, over here it is not a matter of having to pay, and hopefully you guys will end up with a similar system soon.
Please don't fall into the trap of thinking I trust the US Government any more than I trust the average joe on the street. I do not
Originally posted by Seaside
I guess thats why most people like me fight it so much..
But I can not deny this story and this thread.. Very well put together..
Leads me to ask many quesitons about 911 all over again..
Originally posted by exponent
I don't quite think they're bailing out individual friends, more the companies these friends work for, but yes there's no reason they cannot spare a few million to pay for the healthcare of any rescue worker. Of course, over here it is not a matter of having to pay, and hopefully you guys will end up with a similar system soon.
Note another thing that the bailouts represent: special privilege to particular market players to protect them from failure. This isolates these firms from the market forces, such that they remain afloat whether they do good or bad at satisfying consumer wants. Resources cannot be reallocated from what have been revealed as useless projects to more urgent ones, again, as determined by the consumers. The government is channeling the money into uneconomic uses.
This week, Bernanke's Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks' mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure.
The Cost to Taxpayers and the Bailout Type
$ 700 billion+ - Proposed Treasury Department legislation
$ 29 billion - Bear Stearns financing
$ 200 billion - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalization
$ 85 billion - AIG loan and nationalization
$ 300 billion - Federal Housing Administration housing rescue bill
$4 billion - Mortgage community grants
$87 billion - JPMorgan Chase repayments
$200 billion+ - Loans to banks via Fed’s Term Auction Facility
$ 50 billion - Loans from Depression-era Exchange Stabilization Fund
$144 billion - Purchases of mortgage securities by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
TOTAL: $1.8 trillion+
COST PER US HOUSHOLD: $17,064+
The members of the Federal Reserve Board have essentially been bailing out their friends in private business enterprises that pay their employees exorbitant salaries while lowering the value of assets held by ordinary people (via higher inflation) and increasing the tax burden that Americans, their children and grandchildren will need to pay sometime in the future to compensate for the worthless mortgage-backed assets now held by the Fed.
Originally posted by ziggy1706
Thier wa a documentary on HBO last year, about this. If i rememebr correctly..thier was a 53 million dollar fund set aside for those workers...and at leat in the documentary, NOT ONE honorable person who caim to aid 9/11 had access to that money. They were ed tpaed i guess is the word im looking for, ripped off. Was it Pataki the governor of NY then?
$ 700 billion+ - Proposed Treasury Department legislation
$ 29 billion - Bear Stearns financing
$ 200 billion - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalization
$ 85 billion - AIG loan and nationalization
$ 300 billion - Federal Housing Administration housing rescue bill
$4 billion - Mortgage community grants
$87 billion - JPMorgan Chase repayments
$200 billion+ - Loans to banks via Fed’s Term Auction Facility
$ 50 billion - Loans from Depression-era Exchange Stabilization Fund
$144 billion - Purchases of mortgage securities by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
TOTAL: $1.8 trillion+
COST PER US HOUSHOLD: $17,064+
Originally posted by Truth4hire
You have my support.
S+F, Thanks for reminding us all of the injustice.
T4H
Originally posted by plainmike
Why don't they ask us on our tax forms at tax time if we'd like $1.00 to go to a 911 rescue responder's trust fund of some sort? This seems like the least that could be done from Washington doesn't it?