Sick 9/11 workers rally in rainy D.C. for more help

[Demagitator]

Source: New York Daily News

WASHINGTON - Chanting "$25 million isn't enough!" dozens of sick 9/11 first responders stood in the rain on Capitol Hill Tuesday and urged President Bush to restore funding to help pay their medical bills.

Joseph Zadroga, whose son James died of lung disease after working 100 hours at the site for the NYPD, said the government needs to help those who helped the city get back on its feet after the towers fell.

"They dug this country out of a hole and now it's time for this country to dig them out of their holes," he said as he held back tears.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/02/27/2008-02-27_sick_911_workers_rally_in_rainy_dc_for_m.html

[dkf]

1. Aren't these Hillary's constituents?

How could she let this happen?

[Demagitator]

2. Mainstream politicians like Hillary or Obama...

don't touch protester issues with a ten foot pole. Only liberals; or liberal Democrats (like Kucinich) have historically been for difficult social issue rights.

[dkf]

3. 9/11 workers health funding isn't a protester's issue

I thought she was very good at earmarks? Some of the things she asked for looked a little suspicious to me, but this would be absolutely justified.

I find it highly ironic that health care is her "passion" and yet she leaves her own constituents high and dry like this.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Shhhhh, you are disturbing my nap." - Commander AWOL

[aldo]

5. Come on people, this is a cloth woven from a single thread

Why should they worry about the responders when they (Republicans-traitors-to-America) just killed 3,000+? We're all just "dumb, stupid cattle" to them (Kissinger quoted by Woodward). They had a goal of a fascist totalitarian state in mind (read the PNAC letter).