Is the Media Ignoring the 9/11 First Responders Bill?
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We've certainly heard a lot lately about what the lame-duck congressional session has been up to: "don't ask, don't tell," the DREAM Act, the START Treaty and, of course, tax cuts. But comedian Jon Stewart thinks the media is giving one particular story the short shrift: the 9/11 First Responders bill, which was blocked recently by Senate Republicans.
"Before we go, I want to talk one last time about something called the Zadroga bill. There was an NYPD detective who died in 2006 from respiratory illness thought to be caused by the dust he inhaled while working at Ground Zero after 2001. This bill would provide $7 billion in medical and financial benefits for Ground Zero workers who get sick, and they're going to pay for it by closing a corporate tax loophole.
"It's a win-win-win-win, just f------ do it!! The House passed it. The House of Representatives passed it, and it would pass in the Senate, if it came to an up-or-down vote. They have more than the 50 votes they need. But the Senate Republicans have filibustered it, won't allow the bill to come up for a vote ...
"Apparently, the party that turned 9/11 into a catchphrase are now moving suspiciously into a convenient pre-9/11 mentality when it comes to this bill.
"What's more, none of the three broadcast networks have mentioned any of this on their evening broadcasts for two and a half months ...
"This is an outrageous abdication of our responsibility to those who were most heroic on 9/11. You know what, I hate to say this. This is a job for Fox News, the nation's leading source of 9/11-based outrage. They always fight to make sure that 9/11 is appropriately observed.
"Yet, there was one network that gave the 9/11 responders story the full 22 minutes of intense coverage that it deserved. But that network, unfortunately, was Al-Jazeera! Our networks were scooped with a sympathetic Zadroga bill story by the same network that Osama bin Laden sends his mix tapes to! This is insane! I would like to see one of these Senators have the b---- to explain why somehow getting a tax cut extension for wealthy Americans is more important than suffering Ground Zero workers."
"Before we go, I want to talk one last time about something called the Zadroga bill. There was an NYPD detective who died in 2006 from respiratory illness thought to be caused by the dust he inhaled while working at Ground Zero after 2001. This bill would provide $7 billion in medical and financial benefits for Ground Zero workers who get sick, and they're going to pay for it by closing a corporate tax loophole.
"It's a win-win-win-win, just f------ do it!! The House passed it. The House of Representatives passed it, and it would pass in the Senate, if it came to an up-or-down vote. They have more than the 50 votes they need. But the Senate Republicans have filibustered it, won't allow the bill to come up for a vote ...
"Apparently, the party that turned 9/11 into a catchphrase are now moving suspiciously into a convenient pre-9/11 mentality when it comes to this bill.
"What's more, none of the three broadcast networks have mentioned any of this on their evening broadcasts for two and a half months ...
"This is an outrageous abdication of our responsibility to those who were most heroic on 9/11. You know what, I hate to say this. This is a job for Fox News, the nation's leading source of 9/11-based outrage. They always fight to make sure that 9/11 is appropriately observed.
"Yet, there was one network that gave the 9/11 responders story the full 22 minutes of intense coverage that it deserved. But that network, unfortunately, was Al-Jazeera! Our networks were scooped with a sympathetic Zadroga bill story by the same network that Osama bin Laden sends his mix tapes to! This is insane! I would like to see one of these Senators have the b---- to explain why somehow getting a tax cut extension for wealthy Americans is more important than suffering Ground Zero workers."
Read More: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-is-justifia...
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Orangedragan 2010/12/20 14:42:54Yes, the media is ignoring the 9/11 Bill+11Say what you will about Jon Stewart not being a real reporter because he's a comedian, he knows what he is talking about. Especially about this.






















Why? Because THEY KNOW THE TRUTH and are AFRAID OF IT.
I have a childhood friend who I also worked with on the job, and whose father worked with mine, in the same house he is in, and where my son now works, who is dying right now as I write this from pancreatic cancer.
I stayed away from this post because it is too painful for me to open up, and it is also a deep pain and disappointment that conservative representatives have NOT taken up this cause, and in fact, blocked it.
This should be beyond politics of any kind. But I find it real more than disturbing that it is the Liberals that are being loyal to my Brothers and all those civilians who went down there and are suffering without the insurance to help them with their terrible sicknesses.
Pulmonary disease is rampant among those who were down there for any length of time.
They need our help. They need our voices.
9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS REACT TO GOP SENATE FILIBUSTER of their deserved aid and why they need it.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/w...
For shame American media... for shame.
Thanks :-)
use GOP leaders: 9/11 first responders aid bill 'a massive new entitlement program'
House Republican leadership is advising its members to vote against a bipartisan bill that would, among other things, bolster medical support to Sept. 11 victims.
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), would provide medical monitoring to those exposed to toxins at ground zero, bolster treatment at specialized centers for those afflicted by toxins on Sept. 11 and reopen a compensation fund to provide for the economic loss of victims.
And it’s all paid for by closing a tax loophole on foreign companies with U.S. subsidiaries, Democrats said.
But according to Republicans, it’s a job-killing growth of government that wou;d create a new entitlement and waste taxpayer dollars.
The bill, if passed, would reopen the Victims Compensation Fund until 2031 — instead of litigation, victims could try to get money from the fund. Republicans are calling the extension “well beyond what is needed to take care of latent claims,” according to a policy statement from the GOP.
“Republicans c...
use GOP leaders: 9/11 first responders aid bill 'a massive new entitlement program'
House Republican leadership is advising its members to vote against a bipartisan bill that would, among other things, bolster medical support to Sept. 11 victims.
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), would provide medical monitoring to those exposed to toxins at ground zero, bolster treatment at specialized centers for those afflicted by toxins on Sept. 11 and reopen a compensation fund to provide for the economic loss of victims.
And it’s all paid for by closing a tax loophole on foreign companies with U.S. subsidiaries, Democrats said.
But according to Republicans, it’s a job-killing growth of government that wou;d create a new entitlement and waste taxpayer dollars.
The bill, if passed, would reopen the Victims Compensation Fund until 2031 — instead of litigation, victims could try to get money from the fund. Republicans are calling the extension “well beyond what is needed to take care of latent claims,” according to a policy statement from the GOP.
“Republicans continue to believe that those who responded to the [World Trade Center] attack should get the treatment and liability protection they need because they dutifully answered a call for help,” the policy statement reads.
But this bill, according to Republicans, “creates a massive new entitlement program, exposes taxpayers to increased litigation and is ‘paid for’ with tax increases and potential job losses
- Is there language in the bill that states something to that effect that you could point out? (section? paragraph?)
"it’s all paid for by closing a tax loophole on foreign companies with U.S. subsidiaries"
- Do you have a problem with that?
"it’s a job-killing growth of government that wou;d create a new entitlement"
- Providing health care for 9/11 first responders is going to kill jobs?
"Republicans are calling the extension “well beyond what is needed to take care of latent claims,”"
- So you don't think that victims of 9/11 and/or 9/11 first responders deserve to get as much help as they need? Where do you think it should be cut off when some of them are homeless, terminally ill, etc?
"creates a massive new entitlement program, exposes taxpayers to increased litigation and is ‘paid for’ with tax increases and potential job losses"
- Like I asked before... is there language in the bill that can be pointed out that proves and/or explains this claim? I haven't been able to find any.
Rhetoric is great but if the claims cannot be backed up with proof they mean nothing and this just looks like more Republican obstructionism. Where's all that pork?
- Do you have a problem with that?
Do you really think they will do that? No I do not think they will. There are always loopholes. The private sector is smarter than the government. It is a fact.
"- So you don't think that victims of 9/11 and/or 9/11 first responders deserve to get as much help as they need? Where do you think it should be cut off when some of them are homeless, terminally ill, etc?"
Do the first responders need more care than say the runt fireman who develops lung cancer by saving 2 children in a residential home fire. Do they deserve more than the grunt cop that gets his lung pierced saving 2 people being held hostage. Do they deserve more than the neighbor who selfishly pushes a child out of the way of a speeding car and gets his leg run over. Do they deserve more than the military vets that fought died were maimed protecting our freedoms. I ask you the same of your question. Where do you think we should cut off all the heroes in our society?
Good for you. Support your party as they deny 9/11 first responders health care. You're buying the rhetoric.
Please come back when you have a real response.
Wrong. I asked repeatedly for what language exactly in the bill supports your claims and you could provide nothing.
Try again.
But thank you for the invitation to try again.
Allow me to re-read what you said and I'll respond in kind.
Even though everything they did was courageous. There are everyday folk that we forget about. Our military vets. Our neighbors. Our doctors. Our police and fire. Our ambulatory. Our park rangers. I could go on forever. When does the steady flood of money stop?
Did they specifically say what the loophole was? I skimmed through it but didn't see exactly. All I see is a smokescreen. What's another 7 billion added to the 15 trillion deficit anyway. I tried to put 15 trillion in my adding machine. I need more characters for the 12 zeros.
Let's start with "North and South" (1985), Mark Twain, the Shogun story, Moliere, Camus.
They have stories about revolution, adventure, dynasties, and suppressed populations.
now there is one very particular author, true master with these styles of narrating, who was able to analyze the mentality and rationale of the most relevant western elites in history, (at that time a network of nobility, clerus, and military), on the particular example of his own home country, and what would be the outcome of their world views and ways of governing and straight or ceded control of everything, and influence by education: economic dysfunction, indolence, lethargy, victimization, and growing social gap. this would apply to many former colonies, and also to parts of the "ethnic" populations in the americas.
today, not only the protagonists of the colonial systems have globalized and can't be caught any more as being just particular royal houses and their educational systems, but also the victims have become spread globally, and in current absence by actual, formal colonies, these powers still treat their own populations as they regularly had been treating those "natives and barbarians". they had "managed" them as assets and resources. they never pe...
Let's start with "North and South" (1985), Mark Twain, the Shogun story, Moliere, Camus.
They have stories about revolution, adventure, dynasties, and suppressed populations.
now there is one very particular author, true master with these styles of narrating, who was able to analyze the mentality and rationale of the most relevant western elites in history, (at that time a network of nobility, clerus, and military), on the particular example of his own home country, and what would be the outcome of their world views and ways of governing and straight or ceded control of everything, and influence by education: economic dysfunction, indolence, lethargy, victimization, and growing social gap. this would apply to many former colonies, and also to parts of the "ethnic" populations in the americas.
today, not only the protagonists of the colonial systems have globalized and can't be caught any more as being just particular royal houses and their educational systems, but also the victims have become spread globally, and in current absence by actual, formal colonies, these powers still treat their own populations as they regularly had been treating those "natives and barbarians". they had "managed" them as assets and resources. they never perceived themselves as having the same identity as their assets.
identity is one basic point here. these legislators think they somehow have a different identity than those workers who cleaned up the 9/11 site. this is very clandestine because officially they are all americans.
just open your eyes...
in the past, skin color was an official tool to judge "identity", and some "colored" cultures after some time were able to detect the problem and it was not too difficult to know who was who.
today, just watch how diligently some powers in society still want to turn crucial issues that come with their policies, into matters of ethnicity and the particular culture of that ethnic faction, or put the blame on the influence by the "other" political mainstream party.
this is too often a red herring. they just want to hide the fact they deliberately want to claim a different identity for themselves, from anyone else who has less power than they have. AND - this does not stop when "color" or "culture" are the same. it is WITHIN. in fact, race has become a cheap cop-out from the real issue, and this is not bilateral or multilateral, but an intrinsic issue of the self-understanding of a certain group of people.
today, we have the 2.0 of that problem, it has become viral and partially sub-conscious.
the basics have been described as the "social cancer", by Dr. Jose Rizal.
please, everyone in the world concerned, read his books, they are very smart and entertaining!
also please study his analytical essays, because there he did supply the knowledge that made him able to write these very successful novels, and with successful I mean he actually could give societal progress in his (at his time yet to-become) home country a huge boost. the power towards freedom and independence is coming from within, supported by local culture. this literature has been shaping and helping their culture since then. it is a mental roundtrip 2.0 and a milestone that the western world so far hasn't really passed.
to their deaths,by those that had foreknowledge of
the building's imminent collapse?
I hope you do pay more taxes. Congratulations.