Can someone, someone other than CH, please explain to me, by what rationale, the surviving family memebers of 9/11 attack are entitled to anything, other than normal pensions of firefighters or policemen killed on the job? Didn't they, in part choose their employers for the benfits, and didn't they have a chance to buy life insurance through their employer's or otherwise? Why is the government responsible? Why are they any more deserving than any other firefighter killed in line of duty, any innocent person killed in a crime, say, drive by shooting?
What is life insurance for? Didn't they declare a value on their loved ones, when they bought (or didn't buy) a life insurance policy? Why did some sacrifice to pay premiums if the government was going to make it up if they didn't? If they didn't have insurance, aren't the destitute entitled to welfare, same as any other poor widows, widowers, children? Likewise, having lost a lifetime worth of income is different than being paid a million bucks up front where one could live off the interest 50k/year at 5% for the rest of their lives without having worked, passing on the fund to their survivors.
I don't understand.
(I am explicitly not asking you CH, so you don't slip in your weirdassed comments. ) |
