Posted on 06/04/2004 7:57:33 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
If my math is correct, lost income over 2.75 years since 9-11, comes to $1.4 million a year salary? Does any NBA player make that much?
AmEx pays their people pretty good.
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Lost income figures into the future, also, including interest.
Would you change places with her for $100 million?
Are you kidding? You must not follow the NBA very closely. Probably two thirds of NBA players are making that.
Hell, A-rod makes that much per strikeout.
And Michael Jordan, in his last year with the Chicago Bulls, had a salary of $33 million and endorsements worth $35 million.
So no, NBA players don't make that kind of money. They make much, much more.
There are apparently too many dollars in the world.
That would be a big n-o right there.
I don't begrudge her the award, but it still disturbs me that our Iraqi injured get little or nothing for their terrible injuries. Life just isn't fair.
Pat Tillman's family probably only got $100K!
I feel very sorry for this poor woman that was a victim of the evildoers. However, I would also think that she had insurance that would be covering her medical costs. I hear of tragedy happening every day and the victims don't end up getting federal aid.
Let her change lpaces with one of the Marines in Walter Reed - for a helluva lot less.
Considering the $369 million that was awarded by a jury yesterday to an SUV driver involved in a rollover accident....this 9-11 victim was "undercompensated".....
That makes a little better sense, then.
and for the record, I agree completely that our soldiers (wounded or not) are grossly underpaid for the job they do for us.
Yuo're JOKING! Is there a link?
On second thought, better not - my BP is manageable, right now...
That, my FRiend, is an 8.6 on the No-Sh!t-o-Meter...
And that's the most that the Tillman's can ever expect, I'm afraid...
I wish it was a joke.... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2608295
Yea, it isn't so bad, particularly if she was very very injured which it sounds like she was. Jury awards are often downright loopy but a commission like this is likely to do a wiser thing in awarding money.
Jurors have a sense that an injured party has somehow won Lotto - its a problem we need to fix.
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