Ground Zero Workers Dying Due To Rudy’s Negligence
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on May 14th, 2007 5:50 am by HL
Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani’s Legacy
NY Times
Excerpt
At the same time, the administration warned companies working on the pile that they would face penalties or be fired if work slowed. And according to public hearing transcripts and unpublished administration records, officials also on some occasions gave flawed public representations of the nature of the health threat, even as they privately worried about exposure to lawsuits by sickened workers….
City officials and a range of medical experts are now convinced that the dust and toxic materials in the air around the site were a menace. More than 2,000 New York City firefighters have been treated for serious respiratory problems. Seventy percent of nearly 10,000 recovery workers screened at Mount Sinai Medical Center have trouble breathing. City officials estimate that health care costs related to the air at ground zero have already run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and no one knows whether other illnesses, like cancers, will emerge…
Mr. Giuliani has said very little publicly about how his leadership might have influenced the behavior of the men and women who worked at ground zero. Mr. Giuliani, whose image as a 9/11 hero has been a focus of his run for president, declined to be interviewed for this article. His representatives did not respond to specific questions about the pace of the cleanup, the hazards at the site and Mr. Giuliani’s reticence about the workers’ illnesses.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
What ever happen to personal responsibility? Full face respirators, and half- faced respirators are easily purchased by anyone over the internet. If i felt there was an unsafe air quality issue at a job site, i could easily buy a fine particulate respirator for myself. I feel that every person on earth is ultimatly responsible for taking the steps to protect themselves. Why, is it that so many people expect the government or politicians to care for them? Are we all so helpless that we can’t make a decision for ourselves?
May 15th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
“officials also on some occasions gave flawed public representations of the nature of the health threat, even as they privately worried about exposure to lawsuits by sickened workers….”
How does this play into personal responsibility? They were blatantly lying to people to give them a false sense of security. It’s manipulation