[VOA]

So, what we have are a number of issue advocates who also lost family members in the attacks of 9/11.

This is probably partly about "the money".
They think they should get about a billion dollars each for their loss...and to
earn secular sainthood by donating heavily to MoveOn.Org.

[Solson]

Of course it's about the money. It's also about fame. It's also about retribution - misguided and misdirected - but retribution.

I've lost all respect for them. The downside of their antics is the public will quickly lose respect for these 'victims' of 9/11 and thus, lump in all 9/11 victims.

Unless other 9/11 families start to speak out against these partisan hacks, their entire base of support and sympathy will go away...fast.

[jess35]

Part of this is about the money. Some of the family members of 911 victims want to sue the government and they need the hearings. There is no way they could get this kind of access in the discovery process of a civil trial.

[Howlin]

They think they should get about a billion dollars each for their loss...

I saw a discussion with a whole lot of the WTC families on MSNBC one day; some of the families actually said out loud that, why, yes, since you asked, MY husband was worth more than the people who worked in the restaurant on the top floor.

It was one of the most shocking displays of greed I have EVER seen in my entire life.

It is not my fault that they were living beyond their means with NO LIFE INSURANCE; it is not MY duty, nor yours, to keep these people in the style to which they have become accusomted.

They should sell their SUVs, pull the kids out of private school, unload the expensive house, and get a damn job, just like you and I would do if something like this happened to us.