Over the next 5 years the projected cost of caring for WTC First Responders is $25.00 per taxpayer. It's not a New York problem anymore than Pearl Harbor was a Hawaiian problem. If you signed the bill for the wars, you have to support those who fight it. The unmitigated gall of turning your back on those whose life has been on hold for the last 9 years because it was politically expedient will not stand. Turn your back now and see who turns out when you have a catastrophe in your State.

This is not Pork Barrel. Closing the New York Air Force Bases so we were unable to meet the planes with the fighter planes paid for by NYC TAXES was Pork Barrel Politics. You really don't need those bases in Arizona to protect mountain ranges. How do you justify your existence after closing our bases to fill your coffers then hanging the civilians who stepped up and their families out to dry?

Tell my 15 year old son why he lost his homes. Why he had to do without for the last 9 years and why his father is disabled. Try spinning that.