Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Saturday, February 09, 2002 12:51 PM VictimComp To Whom It May Concern, I am writing today because I am very unhappy about this September 11th fund coming out of my pocket against my will! I do not wish to pay for someone else's upkeep unless I make the decision to do so. I find it sad that instead of taking on the charitable organizations and demanding they pay out what we great Americans dug deep and sent in (as I understand, funds are still coming in to these organizations), the government has taken it upon themselves to decide for us all that we also have to be taxed to keep these people in a lifestyle which they have become accustomed to. Lots of these people were making way more money than my husband and I make in a year, and were smart investors making sure their families were taken care of in the event that something should happen to them. If something should happen to my husband, I would have to change my lifestyle greatly to take care of my family. I wouldn't expect someone to do it for me and I wouldn't ask, I would just do. Seems to me the charitable organizations got off pretty easy at our expense and as nice as we were in giving funds to help out like we always do in times of hardship, we are told "please give more." Please don't get me wrong, I cried with everyone on September 11th, I wouldn't wish anything bad on ANYONE, but to say that this somehow is more important than anything else that has happened in the past (WTC'93, U.S.S. Cole, O.K. City, Lockerbie) is ludicrous! And to also say that the people in the lower paying job bracket that worked in the WTC building should somehow get less than the ones who were in the higher paying bracket looks to me that you sure have put a price on someone's life. The lower paid employees are the bread and butter for the higher paid. They did the cleaning, cooking and any other job they had to do to make the others life just a little easier yet they are looked over as has been done forever where the middle class is concerned. And of course, lest we forget the "domestic partners" clause! Utter rubbish!! Then there's the people who were found to be in the country illegally, yet they still get something out of it?? What's wrong with this picture? Operative word in that last sentence was "illegally" meaning they had no business working in this country, they had no papers to be here, so NO money! I say let's scrap this thing, demand the charitable organizations get off their behinds and start doing with our money what we expected them to do, what they said they would do, get the money in the hands of the people who lost loved ones in this horrible disaster and move on with all our lives!! And to said charitable organizations, they can remember these days now for future reference if God forbid something like this should happen again and they're sitting in their offices wondering why the American public hasn't donated anything. We'll be taking it to the victims themselves to assure it goes to the hands that need them. And to the politicians who voted this mess in, when you're sitting in your homes finding you're out of a job come election day in a few months remember this and that we the American people are the government, you work for us, not the other way around! Thank you.Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojP000476.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-02-09