Posted on 08/31/2023 1:16:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing.
The Democratic officials sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, saying “it’s time for the federal government to give back to those who sacrificed so much.”
The letter refers to the estimated half a million people who lived within a 150-mile (240-kilometer) radius of the Trinity Test site in southern New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. It also pointed to thousands of people in Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana and Guam who currently are not eligible under the existing compensation program. The U.S. Senate voted recently to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act as part of a massive defense spending bill. Supporters are hopeful the U.S. House will include the provisions in its version of the bill, and President Joe Biden has indicated his support.
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Not more of this crap again. MORE FREE MONEY.
MORE OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.
That’s mighty kind of them since the government caused all that in the first place
Nothing politicians like better than playing Santa Claus.
Nothing lawyers like better than getting a cut of that.
As a lad in the 50s I spent summers in Southern Idaho. Locals commented on the ‘strange weather’ after atomic tests. When do I get my check?
MORE DEMOCRAT VOTE BUYING!
Clearly this must mean that all the affected people are dead now.
They’ve slow-walked this one to the inevitable conclusion.
If the radiation has not killed them after 78 years then no money. If not dead then maybe we need a dose of it to live longer....
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