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. Tuesday, November 06, 2001 1:07 PM Compassion and Common Sense-Sept.11 Victim Compensation Thank-you for the opportunity to comment on the compensation debate. PLEASE do what you can to keep the money out of trial lawyer's hands! Let's not let this become another lawyer-enrichment program like what the tobacco "settlement" became! If compensation is handled justly there shouldn't be any need for them. I'm hoping that common sense prevails and that the primary victims (those physically injured in the event and the immediate families of those that died) are compensated to a reasonable extent and any money left over goes to rebuilding the city and into a fund comprised of a large chunk of money for future troubles that WILL be surfacing, it's only a matter of time, due to the toxic work environment at the site. I've smelled the air there and it's not good. From what I understand the masks are difficult to wear for any real length of time and are not being utilized as they should be. (I can hear it now "It's your fault-you should have worn the mask provided to you", "No it's your fault for not providing me with a good quality, reasonably comfortable, mask that doesn't make you feel like you're suffocating!"). Also, I feel STRONGLY that the American Red Cross should be handing over ALL monies it has collected on behalf of the victims of the attacks. Again, any "surplus", anything in excess of reasonable handouts, should be given to NYC (as I'm sure the U.S. government will already to paying for repairs to the Pentagon) - and complete accountabilty needs to be required. Anyone in charge of doling out money should be able to account for every penny when all is said and done. I also feel that everyone who claims to be a victim should have a social worker-type person assigned to them-someone with compassion and lots of common sense. The money spent on that would be worth it. Someone who will get to know the families and be able to evaluate their specific situations and recommend fair compensation. Every case will be slightly different. And known victims who have not had family come forward should also have a social worker assigned in case the immediate family is either too traumatized to step forward or just isn't sure how to proceed. Those case workers should quickly ascertain whether or not immediate funds need to be made available to any families. A quick $50,000 pay-out should probably be given to any family who has had to bury someone or has had someone in a hospital. The finer calculations can be done later. That same case-worker would also be valuable in any claim disputes within the families. There is a huge risk of abuse here and if it comes out later that undeserving people and/or businesses were beneficiaries of any of the money, potential future donors will be turned off and all the heart-felt donating will have a long-term negative impact. I feel bad for people laid off and relocated, but such is life. There are no guarantees in life. I've been laid off twice and forced to live on the ridiculously low unemployment benefits for a time and I survived. I was broke and traumatized, but I survived. Should I have sued the executives of the company for the mis-management that led the company to liquidating (in one case)? Government "awards" should not an automatic thing. This isn't some kind of lottery. If the victims are able to get sufficient funds from donation programs then less taxpayer money will be needed to get them back on their feet (as well as possible). If taxpayers pay AND donation programs pay then in reality the taxpayers are getting hit twice, since I imagine that the donations are tax-deductible. Perhaps that's the stance that politicians need to take to avoid looking like scrooges. Heaven knows that taxpayer money will be needed for a few other things going on these days............... Best to all of you, Individual Comment Danbury, CT September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000065.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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