Another win for the richest man in the world
Quote:Money for 9/11 Health Care Was Dropped from Year-End Spending Bill
The initial legislation included a provision that would have ensured care through about 2040 for victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, as well as the police officers, nurses, firefighters and volunteers who inhaled toxic fumes, dust and smoke at ground zero.
Mr. Brosi said more than 130,000 people were still paying the price of that day, suffering respiratory ailments and other illnesses. About 35,000 people in the program have been diagnosed with cancer, he said.
New York lawmakers had unanimously championed the health funding and had cheered its inclusion in a sprawling budget deal, which had been negotiated by Republicans and Democrats including Mr. Johnson and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Senate majority leader.
Mr. Musk then demanded that Republicans renounce that measure and threatened on social media to “vote out” any member who voted for it. Mr. Trump also made an 11th-hour demand to increase the debt limit.
Democrats said they put the blame for its elimination squarely on Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump. A spokesman for Mr. Schumer said that he and Democrats pushed to include the health fund in the final package, but that Republicans rejected it.
“When Donald Trump asked Republicans to redo their budget, they heartlessly discarded the 9/11 health fund,” Mr. Schumer said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/po...-bill.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
