No, they didn't win the lottery.
But it's pretty damn clear that the donations that these big charities received were intended precisely for victims like this lady.
Not for "tolerance programs" and not for Islamic studies grants.
You may not be comfortable with the families of the victims receiving much money from these charities, but I believe 99.9% of the donors would disagree with you.
You mean, $120,000 per year? I do. He lived in New Jersey and was described in one web bio as:
Glick has been one of the top performing sales managers of the San Mateo, Calif.-based Vividence since he joined the company in May 2000.
It is possible that he was making even more than that.
And why is his wife "tapped out" after three months when she received $30,000?
FYI, property taxes of $5,000 per year are not uncommon in New Jersey, auto insurance can run in the $1,000 - $2,000 per year range. Good houses cost over $150,000 and newer homes can run easily into the $400,000 to $500,000 range. Assume that they were living at their means, she could easily be paying $2,500 to $3,000 or maybe much more per month in morgage payments and property taxes. A nice car can run you $300 to $400 per month or more. Assume they had two. So that's probably another $800 per month for the cars and insurance. None of this would have been extravagent in New Jersey if he had the salary to support it. Do I really need to go on? If anyone has the name of the town he lived in (some quick searches didn't turn it up for me), we can find the average home cost and property taxes there if you really want.
Great point. A couple months ago I saw a widow of a WTC victim on the Factor. Her husband was a bond trader for Kantor-Fitz and she claimed that they had always lived paycheck to paycheck and now she was broke and the United Way and Red Cross had not helped. Sad story until you realize that a bond traders make between 200k to 1.5 million a year. How can someone with that kind of income live paycheck to paycheck?
Last night, O'Reilly was complaining about one of the "victims" not getting enough money from the charities. He said - without blinking an eye - that she had gotten $90,000 but that has already been spent. He didn't recognize the idiocy of that statement. $30,000 a month in expenses? Is she related to Donald Trump for crying out loud?
I've wondered the same thing when reading these stories. What gives?
I am unsure it would be possible for me to agree with your statement anymore than I already do. If my husband gets hit by a truck tomorrow, and I didn't do the necessary estate planning, the Red Cross and United Way aren't going to show up at my doorstep. I have very little sympathy for people that can go through that kind of money.
That is true, and one can also question why should flight 93 victims get any money when families of other air disasters don't, and what about the latest crash in Rockaway Beach, do they get anything? That aside, the fact is people donated a ton of money to go to the victims of 9/11 and it was never stipulated, that I know of, that this involved WTC victims only.
Therefore, the families of the flight 93 victims, Pentagon, the firefighters, police, whoever was involved in the tragedy that day, should qualify for this money. Whether that includes people who survived but still suffer, I'm not sure about that legally, but ethically they should qualify as well.
If you take about five thousand Sept. 11 victims and multiply by $30,000 each, you get $150 million total. Isn't that about right for the amount of money collected?