[Texasforever]

This is a good article. The "generosity" to 911 victims will never be matched again. The Federal government should have stayed completely out of the process This does set a very bad and expensive precedent.

[al-andalus]

I agree with you. A terrible precedent. If people want to send their own money, so be it--but the gov't has no business pitching in tax dollars. Of course the irony is that charity was never the motive in the first place. This fund was meant as a sop to the insurance industry, in hopes that families would take the gov't payment and forego the right to sue, but it's not working out that way. Only a handful of families have elected to take the gov't money.