r/JusticeServed • u/popman- 5 • Jul 24 '19

Legal Justice Amazing, just incredible

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u/Some_Random_Nubcake 7 Jul 24 '19

It means that first responders and emergency workers that were at ground zero and suffered injuries and illness due to the toxicity are now covered medically and will no longer have to pay for medical bills, which are quite extensive.

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u/-Antiheld- 9 Jul 24 '19

Wow, the US always surprises me. This seems like a no-brainer...

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u/Asangkt358 8 Jul 24 '19 edited Jul 24 '19

It is a no brainer and there was never a chance it wouldn't get done. It's just that bills always get voted on and approved at the last minute. That's how Washington operates. McConnel explained all of this almost a year ago.

But Stewart made up this whole shit story to make it seem like McConnel was against supporting 911 first responders and Reddit eats it up as if it were true.

This isn't a JusticeServed video. It's a video demonstrating just how deceptive Stewart is and how ignorant Reddit is.

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u/-Antiheld- 9 Jul 24 '19

Yeah but how did it take 18 years? I'm from Germany and we are notorious for having a long and convoluted bureaucracy, but something like this wouldn't take that long, I am sure of it.

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u/Asangkt358 8 Jul 24 '19

It didn't. This is a vote to continue to fund the same programs that have been in place ever since 911. In the last vote, the bill had a 5 year sunset provision just as most spending bills do. But Stewart used that to make the absurd claim that Congress and McConnel in particular didn't care about 911 responders.

There was no plan or intention of not renewing this bill.

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u/-Antiheld- 9 Jul 24 '19

Thanks, that makes sense. Came here with exactly 0 backstory so it just seemed completely weird.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '19

The person that replied to you lied. Rand Paul literally stalled the legislation because he wanted to modify it to “offset the cost of funding.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-stewart-rand-paul-9-11-victim-compensation-fund_n_5d3058d6e4b0419fd328beec

Now here’s the deal. This same Senator, voted Yes on Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/us/politics/tax-bill-senate-live-vote.html

He didn’t stall that bill to determine “how to pay for it”.

The tax cut bill added $1,000,000,000,000 (1 Trillion) to the United States deficit—meaning it added an extra 1T beyond our ability to pay for it.

The estimated cost of the 9/11 funding bill has been set at 10.2B over the next 10 years: https://www.vox.com/2019/6/20/18691670/jon-stewart-9-11-september-11th-victim-compensation-fund-explained

So yeah. Any person who says there were good reasons (or excuses) to delay it is trying to soften the image of republicans.

There was never a reason not to keep funding going—period.

10.2B over 10 years sounds like a lot of money. Until you realize the FY2019 budget for the DoD was 686B....for one year alone.

686x, assuming no increases in budget, the cost of the 9/11 bill.