I’m not Sure if I’m Red or Blue on This
I write on the left side of the track most of the time, but I’m currently struggling with an issue that seems more red than blue, and there’s nothing in my “Kelly View Book” that addresses it, so I’m just gonna step to the plate with a big red bat and take a swing. Shit, Rush Limbaugh’s on deck, and he’s on my team.
To put it bluntly: Victims don’t deserve a dime from other innocent people, as in us taxpayers. This of course excludes all the firemen, police officers and Port Authority heroes who gave their lives. Their spouses should be millionaires. “Sure,” find the guilty party and sue his ass from here to Enron, but innocent people shouldn’t have to do anything more than send flowers, dinners, and heartfelt condolences.
I feel bad for the victims of 911. Same for the Titanic, the Oklahoma Bombing Victims, even the Jonestown punch drinkers, and I also feel sorry for everyone who drowns in a river or gets eaten by a bear. Society though, has developed a wonderful plan to remunerate people who die through no fault of their own. It’s called life insurance. Accidents happen to ordinary people and life insurance policies take care of it.
Survivors of the victims of the 9/11 tragedy are receiving an average of 1.1 million dollars, and in some cases this is as high as 4 million. A family member of a dead soldier receives around $6,000 grand and about $1,800 for burial costs. You heard that right. The wife of a dead executive from the twin towers receives compensation to set her up for life. The deceased soldier’s wife gets enough to make the car payments for maybe one more year.
Wounded Soldiers Should Be in Penthouse Suites, Not VA Hospital Tenements.
If every soldier coming back from war was guaranteed the best medical treatment on the planet, I’m talking one bedroom suites at Cedars Sinai or Scripps, and was also given a guaranteed annuity for the rest of his life for the service of putting his ass on the line, I’d feel better about helping terrorist victims.
But it doesn’t work that way. Soldiers with three limbs and half a face and permanent brain damage are coming home to crowded, decrepit VA hospitals that make county treatment centers look like palaces.
Vets Should Have Retirement Packages That Turn Wall Street Heads
Any soldiers who serve our country, particularly those who fight in distant battlefields
should be treated as heroes. I personally think we need to be out of both wars but just like Vietnam, our soldiers need to be honored and respected. A combat vet should receive at least the same benefits as a member of congress and health care that’s as least as good as Cuba’s.
If we’re gonna give the bereaving wife of a 9/11 victim 1.1 to 4 million dollars, then it only goes to reason that the wives of deceased soldiers coming home in body bags should get the same, and the same applies for an MIA. That suffering wife probably deserves more than anyone, but at the very least, the same amount as our grieving 9/11 wife.
