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Politics : A Neutral Corner
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To: Constant Reader who wrote (80)9/13/2005 10:20:45 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 2253
 
Anyone else have an opinion?

I laughed out loud when I heard that idea because it came from people who were supposedly looking out for the poor people who got stuck in the Superdome. The way the 911 fund worked, the payouts were based on standard insurance-type calculations of lifetime earnings lost. For poor people, that would be next to nothing.

And then there's the problem that the catastrophies were two entirely different things. The point of the 911 fund was to protect the airline industry from lawsuits. There's no comparable responsible party here to protect. The cement manufacturers for the walls that breached maybe? LOL.
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