# 'Promise Broken': N.Y. to Lose 9/11 Aid **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 17, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/promise-broken-n-y-to-lose-9-11-aid/331431 "2005-11-17T02:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/promise-broken-n-y-to-lose-9-11-aid/331431/1 "2005-11-17T02:20:57Z")
[Link](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051115/ap_on_go_co/sept11_aid) > [@](#): > > ‘Promise Broken’: N.Y. to Lose 9/11 Aid By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer > Tue Nov 15, 6:21 PM ET > > WASHINGTON - Congressional budget negotiators have decided to take back $125 million in Sept. 11 aid from New York, which had fought to keep the money to treat sick and injured ground zero workers, lawmakers said Tuesday. > > New York officials had sought for months to hold onto the funding, originally meant to cover increased worker compensation costs stemming from the 2001 terror attacks. Fiscal prudence or a broken promise, or both ? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/promise-broken-n-y-to-lose-9-11-aid/331431/2 "2005-11-18T00:59:40Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > [Link](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051115/ap_on_go_co/sept11_aid) > > Fiscal prudence or a broken promise, or both ? Broken promise. I wonder if Wyoming will have to give back their terror money too. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/promise-broken-n-y-to-lose-9-11-aid/331431/3 "2005-11-19T16:49:58Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Broken promise. I wonder if Wyoming will have to give back their terror money too. “something of a broken promise” according to the Republican from New York. Let’s make clear that NY wants to keep the money to spend later because of anticipated future needs. Apparently the negotiators disagree with the extent of the future problem or future funding can be dealt with later. Hopefully they are getting unspent money back from other states especially those that should’t have gotten money in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/promise-broken-n-y-to-lose-9-11-aid/331431/4 "2005-11-20T14:41:27Z")
> [@What the .... ?!?!](#): > > “something of a broken promise” according to the Republican from New York. > > Let’s make clear that NY wants to keep the money to spend later because of anticipated future needs. Apparently the negotiators disagree with the extent of the future problem or future funding can be dealt with later. > > Hopefully they are getting unspent money back from other states especially those that should’t have gotten money in the first place. Hopefully yes. A while back, I had some newspaper clippings (L.A. Daily News) that contained a scathing editorial about this - at the time it was about the amount of money going to potential target cities like New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles, and the amount going to places that were extremely unlikely to be targeted, such as Cheney’s home state of Wyoming. They based their criticism on both the per capita and total dollar amounts. I wish I had kept it. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/promise-broken-n-y-to-lose-9-11-aid/331431/5 "2005-11-20T14:45:05Z")
I forgot to add, if the negotiators are now saying that the threat is so much less than previously claimed - terror attacks, multicolored alerts (which coincided too much with political expediency to be anything but coincidence), Cheney’s visions of mushroom clouds - or if the negotiators are saying there is no threat, then that should give us all a major “What the fuck?” moment.