Yes, but should the United Way and Red Cross be expected to keep the survivors living in the same lifestyle they had prior to the attack? If so these organizations will need to raise hundreds of billions to keep the families of stock brokers and bond traders living at the lifestyle they are accustomed.
It is interesting that we do not here the voices of the families of the bus boys, maids, janitors and service workers that were killed in the attack. Have they received $30,000.00 or are they just keeping quiet and thanking God for the time they did have with their loved one?
Obviously the red cross can't be expected to do that, but these families need to be financially helped through this (the money is there, after all), and given at least a few months and a fighting chance of being able to sell their homes instead of losing them to forclosure. A lot of younger people put their money into their homes as an investment. When you are only 31 and have a young family and live in an expensive area, you don't necessarily have a lot of savings. The family home may be the only investment they have. Unfortunately, it seems that many of widows didn't know much about the legal, financial side of their lives. I hate it when I hear a woman say that her husband takes care of all the bills. Look at the awful cost to some of these poor families in the wake of 9/11.
Yes. That money was donated by everyday people to help those families out, not to fund left-handed lesbian surfboard riders. Believe it or not, something like $1 million was raised by Australians for the various funds set up to help the victims in the US.
The total amount that people have donated for the victims of 9/11 is approximately 1.3 billion. Unless my math is wrong, that should come out to $433,000 for each family (1.3 billion divided by 3,000 victims. I would much rather see each family get that money, than have it go to terrorists' lawyers and to arts charities which weren't even affected by 9/11!