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Wall Street Journal. 23 January 2002. Victims fund demands spur backlash. NEW YORK -- America opened its heart to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but a growing number of taxpayers aren�t happy about opening their pocketbooks. An ugly backlash is building as families of the people killed at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon push for changes in the guidelines controlling how much they can expect to receive from the federal fund. In rallies and on radio and television talk shows last week, victims' advocates had hoped to mobilize public support to make the fund more generous. Instead, they have provoked a surge of angry criticism in the media, in comments to the fund's administrator, Kenneth R. Feinberg, and even in personal e-mails to their homes. "If $1.6 million isn't enough for you, then I hope you rot in hell," a television viewer wrote Stephen Push, treasurer of Families of September 11 Inc., a national victim advocacy group, after he appeared on CNN last week. "We feel your grief, really," wrote another. "I�m just wondering if we have to feel your greed, too." At Give Your Voice, a victims' group in New York, more than 800 e-mails flooded in last week, all of them critical of victims, says co-founder Michael Cartier. And flush from a well-attended protest rally last Thursday at the New York Armory, organizers were stunned by an editorial cartoon in the New York Daily News Sunday depicting the World Trade Center's crater as a money pit for victims, with a construction crane scooping up buckets full of cash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
