[WHBates]

The bottom line is that no one should have received money from the government from this. Their own life insurance, if any, should have taken care of it. As an example, if my or anyones spouse or relative suddenly gets killed in an accident or murder or whatever, isn't it equally tragic? This was a stupid idea, now everyone wants the government to pay and rightfully so.

Don't loose sight of the fact that congress was attempting to keep the airlines from going under from the resulting lawsuits.

I lost my wife less than a month before 9/11 to breast cancer, leaving me with three boy to raise and it never occurred to me that somebody owed us anything. At first, all of the talk of public money going to the families of the victims made me angry but when you reflect on why it was done it makes a certain amount of sense...Sadly it's the result of living in a litigious society.

[Blue Highway]

Do you ever get the feeling that people like the Jersey Girls and Cindy Sheehan are like part of a coven practicing their evil veiled by their "loss" which gives them a free pass to act and say things irresponsibly.

[AgThorn]

Don't loose sight of the fact that congress was attempting to keep the airlines from going under from the resulting lawsuits.

I know that this unique reasoning exist. However, based on the amount of money this cost us and the experience this whole thing has put us through, I would think that the government could (hindsight being all I am using here) pass some legislation, or declaration of 'non-blame' for the airlines, exempting the airlines from lawsuits rather than costing the taxpayers over 1.6 million per victim.

I know the motivation, but the legislation needs to find another alternative to this rather than 'cash'.