Deaths of 9/11 front-liners renew talk of aid bill NY DAILY NEWS Oct.13th
Deaths of 9/11 front-liners renew talk of aid bill
BY Adam Lisberg and Stephanie Gaskell
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, October 13th 2009, 4:00 AM
The deaths of three 9/11 first responders in the past week is enough proof for Mayor Bloomberg that people are getting sick from working at Ground Zero.
"Probably - nobody's sure - but probably contracted during breathing the air down at the World Trade Center site," the mayor said yesterday after the Daily News reported that two cops and a firefighter recently died of cancer.
NYPD Officer Robert Grossman died of cancer Friday at the age of 44. The next day, Firefighter Richard Mannetta, 44, died of cancer. And last Wednesday, 37-year-old Police Officer Cory Diaz also died of cancer. Firefighter John McNamara, 44, died of cancer last month.
Doctors haven't officially linked the illnesses of dozens of first responders to the toxins at the World Trade Center site, but Bloomberg said the federal government needs to help pay for their medical care.
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act - named after an NYPD detective who died of post-9/11 ailments - would provide $10 billion, but has been sitting in Congress for years.
Bloomberg said time is running out.
"I think that it's just another reminder that we've just got to get Congress to pass the [bill] that would give us the money," he said.
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Joe,
pls let me know what you think about this elizabeth kucinich vid with map
sugarcoated 9/11 truth with map added at the end
here at 911blogger were in a hard core of researchers of a certain set of topics- it might seem repetitive to send a simple message to the public but i believe someone completely new to this needs a hook- a pretty face, a catchline, a videogenic clip
Enough of the Farrakhan already
Nearly every post on blogger is being spammed by Douglas Hilton
Farrakhan as far as I'm concerned is a charismatic leader, his information is culled from many sources including far right racists, personally I don't need charismatic leaders and I'll do my own research, we are our own leaders, this kind of worship is what we, the human race, should be moving away from in our (r)evolution.
Ok Doug you've made your point (too many times IMO) it's getting boring.