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. Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:13 PM Disinformation Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20530 For the record, I feel an unethical disinformation campaign is being waged against the victims, heroes and families of the 9-11 debacle. We are being cast as being given, out of "taxpayers' generosity", first $1.65, now $1.8 million and yet some of us, if not all of us think that this is not good enough. Much of this plant can be traced to the administrators of the Fund while some of the extrapolation comes from suspicious e-mails to Victims Support web sites and in comments on the DOJ Fund website and news media fill ins. I wonder how many of the more than 100 airline lawyers and lobbyists sent to Washington September12 are still on retainer? Much is heard of the $1.65 figure but little is heard of the $15 billion given to the airlines in the same Airline Bailout Act. Curious? (That would reach $5.0 million per victim, by the way.) But which was the greater loss: the 4 aircraft and the lost business that eventually will be recouped or the extinction of 3,000 lives? I am almost afraid to ask this question on the DOJ site. The same act that gave the airlines your tax money, severely limited the victims' right to sue the airlines and another, related act, took away rights to sue everyone else except the hijackers and related terrorists. The ABA also gave the Fund first crack at the limited airlines' insurance money. It is estimated by some that the Fund will payout between $1.5 and $2.0 billion in total, thanks in large part to the deduction of pensions, life insurance and a deceased consumption factor (that's right, dead men don't eat.) The Fund net average payout will be closer to $650 000 than to $1 650 000 and all of it will recoverable from the insurance money the victims who sue would have collected! The victims are actually paying for the Victim Compensation Fund. Thirsty? Have some vinegar. Three groups are unfairly singled out to pay for the Fund. First, the uniformed emergency workers families who have low salaries but good death benefits. The low salaries are first discounted and used to calculate economic loss, then the generous death benefits are subtracted to net out to zero or less. The well-off experience the same treatment, but at a higher multiple. Good salaries that have been squeezed down by buying into generous future benefits are discounted and capped then reduced by the benefits which include life insurance and vested pension plans thus arriving at the same result, $0.00. The single victims' and the poor families get hit proportionally harder by the illegally calculated non-economic loss of a flat rate $250 000 take it or leave it proposition. Parents, brothers and sisters are a zero in the Master's calculus as are fiancés and same sex partners, which he leaves up to the states' laws and probate courts but provides no funding. The Master has said no plan can make every one happy but this one may set a record for its failure to make anyone but the airlines happy. Individual Comment Newton MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002428.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. 2002-03-20