So concerned were in the White House go after Bin Laden, whose many family members were the only ones authorized, among tens of thousands who prayed for the same-to address the only aircraft that left the United States the day after the 11-S that in the confusion both the president and the mayor of New York were "forgot" to pay compensation to firefighters, paramedics, rescue workers and laborers who worked for days and weeks recovering bodies and removing debris from the Twin Towers, immersed in a toxic cloud that irreparably damaged their bodies and especially their lungs. But this is, as would the unforgettable Howard Zinn, "the another story "of the United States, the victims, the oppressed, the poor, the marginalized. That history was not available and Zinn, who did an extraordinary job to tell it in a book that just has that name and which should be read by anyone interested in knowing how is the "really existing capitalism" and not the concocted stories in Hollywood We depict an idealized vision of America This comes about because an investigation by the Yeshiva University in New York City and whose findings were published by the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in April last year found the existence of 13,954 affected by inhalation of toxic gases during their work in the ruins of the Twin Towers. The researchers reported in various sources that this figure underestimates the actual number of victims affected by the hard work of rescue and cleanup: an estimated two thousand more were not registered either because they would have died of poisoning suffered in those tasks or complications with other diseases, or because many of them undocumented feared that the researchers presented to the hated "migra," the U.S. immigration police, the detected and terminated by deportation. None of this
mentioned Barack Obama's demagogic did visit Ground Zero Thursday May 5, once confirmed the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The president spoke of those who collaborated with heroism and selflessness in the rescue and cleanup, but did not say a word about the scandalous neglect and ingratitude with which they were (mis) treated these workers, waste material in any capitalist economy, and more in the United States. According to the BBC correspondent in New York in early 2008 - or nearly seven years after the attack occurred! - Only six (yes, no error: six) of just over 10,000 claims had been raised by workers by the severe disruption caused to their health had received some kind of compensation by U.S. authorities. Bourgeois justice, they say. Or practical refutation of the discourse on human rights, freedom and justice to Washington permanently hides its greatest outrages. What credibility can they behave as a ruthless ruler with his own people, who generously engaged in a hazardous work only for that, after completion, is desoyeran their just claims? As expected the protests and pressures of the victims continued and recently in April 2010, nearly nine years after the spill, it was a first arrangement by which workers in a collective lawsuit, so that legislation U.S. qualifies as a "class action" - could come to receive, ten years after the tragedy!, 657.5 million dollars compensation at a rate of about $ 65,000 per person. Of course, there may be some exceptions where, on the basis of a review by a judge in a lengthy and costly process, invariably, some of the victims could receive compensation somewhat larger. But now the figure is one.
Needless to clarify that this amount can hardly affected pay medical bills accumulated over many years of total neglect by the crusaders for freedom and justice installed in the White House goes without saying that those unfortunate enough to require a more complicated will be to the side of the road and must fend for themselves. In the United States health is a commodity, as I remember Alfredo Zitarrosa in "Doña Soledad", "You can die, that's a health issue, but do not want to know what it costs a coffin." Note a simple operation for appendicitis in New York can easily cost up to $ 30,000 and you're all that.
Oh, I forgot!: Fees from law firms involved in this long, painful and humiliating legal battle rescuers and exceed two hundred million dollars or nearly a third of what is going to give workers and appropriated it the "vultures" who profit from this disaster. They did not have to wait. Conclusion: U.S. can invade countries, torture, murder, promoting coups and go into wars without congressional authorization, but the White House is powerless to do justice and properly compensate the anonymous legion of those who risked their lives and health at Ground Zero on the grounds that Congress did not authorize such expenditures. Of course, if this is what is outline a financial bailout of banks and the Capitol and the White House, always sensitive to the interests of the dominant classes, make the decision within days, and the CEOs of financial casino immediately regain their wages in dollars millionaires. In contrast, those who took the humanitarian task of rescue and cleanup of the World Trade Center disaster are being humiliated with a wait of almost ten years and a ridiculous compensation taking into account the damage caused and the time required for compensation. This outrage is "another story" of the United States, which according to Zinn must pay the greatest attention because it reveals the inherent and incorrigible immorality of capitalism and the need to end it as soon as possible, before, as it has saying Fidel, the system end to mankind. Atilio A.
Boron Rebellion 12/05/2011
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