# Conservatives Overwhelmingly Oppose Healthcare for 9/11 Workers

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**Created:** [August 1, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-overwhelmingly-oppose-healthcare-for-9-11-workers/548816 "2010-08-01T20:05:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-overwhelmingly-oppose-healthcare-for-9-11-workers/548816/244 "2010-08-05T22:31:09Z")

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> [@Scylla](#):
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> … 2. 9/11 workers are not better or more deserving than, say, longshoreman who may injure themselves for life on the job, or truckers who ruin their backs, or coal miners their lungs. Why are demolition, construction, and others better or more deserving than everybody else who does the exact same job but just didn’t happen to do it at the WTC site?
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> 1. Why is somebody who develops chronic lung disease who happened to be in NYC on 9/11 better than somebody else with the same disease who is in LA?

Oh, I don’t know, maybe because,

> [@Video of US Rep. Weiner ripping Repubs on 9/11 Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-us-rep-weiner-ripping-repubs-on-9-11-bill/548617/37):
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> > [@Video of US Rep. Weiner ripping Repubs on 9/11 Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-us-rep-weiner-ripping-repubs-on-9-11-bill/548617/37):
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> > Who were the construction workers working for? You have insurance through your employer. They weren’t working for anyone. They just came. And when some people paused for a moment and asked “Is is it safe to work here? Is this stuff toxic?” The federal government came in and said “We tested the air and it is fine.” And it wasn’t fine.

I’m gonna let Jon Stewart have the privilege of killing this thread\*, [August 4, 2010: I Give Up - 9/11 Responders Bill](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-4-2010/i-give-up---9-11-responders-bill).

CMC fnord!  
\*Not that it actually has even the slightest of killing the thread, despite the clip spelling out exactly what was up and just how slimy the Republicans were being. :rolleyes:

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