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To: carranza2 who wrote (150779)12/13/2005 1:48:41 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793800
 
I happen to think it's unfair.

If you don't quit framing things in terms of fairness, people will start mistaking you for a Democrat... <g>

I remember early on in the Katrina process there were calls for a 911 type compensation program for the families of the dead. My reaction was that the advocates don't grasp the difference between 911 and Katrina. The rationale for that fund was to expedite and rationalize what would otherwise be recovered from lawsuits against the airlines. Nothing comparable there. But the advocates seemed to think it was a question of fairness to victims. (And then, of course, there is the problem that many people didn't think the actuarial methodology of the fund was fair, either, but that's another matter.)

If you look at Katrina as a victims issue or a question of to-each-according-to-his-need, then your point is well taken. If the US wants to set up a taxpayer-funded program for relief of victims, I guess we could do that. Or we could come up with a welfare type program for such eventualities. But that's not what we're about historically and now. 911/New York is different because that was an act of war, totally unexpected and unpredictable. The US government has different responsibilities when it comes to war than it does re floods. Very different.

Not trying to start a debate, only trying to point out another of the plan A arguments that us not likely to prevail.
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