Supporting 9/11 workers is just too expensive

Newsday:

Congress is expected to approve a bill cutting $125 million that was supposed to go to sick Sept. 11 aid workers, lawmakers familiar with the continuing negotiations said yesterday.

A bipartisan bloc of New York legislators had sought to stop the Bush administration from stripping the funds, which were part of a $20 billion package promised by the president in the days after the terror attacks.

The money was to be used to recompense the state for workers' compensation and other insurance claims related to 9/11.

So the Bush administration has decided that one of the best ways back from the road to financial ruin is to take from the workers who rushed to help after the 9/11 attacks and instead help make some more of those tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. And this isn't future money to be spent, mind you, but money already handed out to aid these heroic people.

The Bush White House - remembering 9/11, but not those people affected by it.