re: #302 webevintage

Assholes.

Ailing Sept. 11 responders don’t deserve a permanent, guaranteed program to ensure they get health care, and giving it to them could wreck the country, Republicans in Congress argued today.

Calling the Sept. 11 Health and Compensation Act a new “entitlement program” like Medicare, members of the GOP on the House Energy and Commerce Committee argued the nation already has too much that it must pay for, and making the care of tens of thousands of 9/11 responders mandatory was too much of a burden.

“By making this a new mandatory program, you jeopardize the financial health of the United States of America,” said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).

Read more: [Link: www.nydailynews.com…]

so the truth is that the Republicans want a yearly budgetary item, as Obama has already suggested…as opposed to not wanting to cover it at all.

your slant on this item was…creative…