Well our dear republican friends in Congress did their little magic "no dance" yesterday. Seems that a lot of people who responded to the 9/11 attacks and worked the site for the months thereafter have come down with all manner of respiratory ailments. I live about 80 miles out from NYC and we could smell the smell here. I was commuting into town daily and the closer you got the worse the smell. About 2 months after, I had the occasion to visit a client who was permitted back into his offices about a mile away but "downwind"..very close to the East River so not in the immediate zone. The building cleanup people took about 3 inches of "dust" out of his office..a fine dust that covered everything and didn't "sweep"....just blew.
I remember Christie somethingorother, the former govenor of New Jersey who was head of Bush's EPA, saying the "air was fine" when it wasn't. She quit soon afterward. The early responders didn't even have face masks. Now a lot of them are sick as dogs with something that doesn't seem to get better and after bailing out every investment group within miles for lost time, the Congress - the Republican minority - is blocking help to folks who are sick with a set of tired old reasons that make me hate politics and politicians.
I remember Christie somethingorother, the former govenor of New Jersey who was head of Bush's EPA, saying the "air was fine" when it wasn't. She quit soon afterward. The early responders didn't even have face masks. Now a lot of them are sick as dogs with something that doesn't seem to get better and after bailing out every investment group within miles for lost time, the Congress - the Republican minority - is blocking help to folks who are sick with a set of tired old reasons that make me hate politics and politicians.
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