Obama first refuses to fund health bill for 9-11 rescue workers but, then, 4 hours later, is forced to change his mind.

Hundreds of their friends and co-workers lay buried in the smoking rubble of the Twin Towers and these firefighters gather for rescue instructions on 9-11.

The intense heat, the smoke and potential lethal air-borne pollutants - all have combined to cause increasing health problems to the hundreds who worked without concern for themselves on that fatal day.

And Obama's response? He has helped to administer the expense of more than $2 trillion per month since taking office but did not want to come up with $11 billion to be spent over the coming 30 years with regard to health related issues of these rescue workers.

New York Daily News.com reported that the Obama administration "stunned New York's delegation Thursday, dropping the bombshell news that it does not support funding the 9/11 health bill."

The state's two senators (Kirsten Gillibrand and Chucky Schumer - jds) and 14 House of Representative members met with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius just hours before President Obama implored in his speech to the nation for Congress to come together and deliver a government that delivers on its promises to the American people while willing, at the same time, to practice fiscal restraint. Minutes after concluding his State of the Nation address, he was forced to change this decision by the 16 legislator's mentioned and a host of associates decrying the ridiculous nature of this mindless decision (our characterization) .

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Note: if "2 trillion per month" sounds off the mark to you, you have not been reading Midknight Review. What you do not know is that 24 trillion dollars has been run through TARP in addition to the $700 million administered above board. Here are words from an article in Bloomberg. Shame on you for not knowing this:

July 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the U.S. financial system, including $6.8 trillion in aid offered by the Federal Reserve, Barofsky said in a report released today.

“TARP has evolved into a program of unprecedented scope, scale and complexity,” Barofsky said in testimony prepared for a hearing tomorrow before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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Obama reverses himself in 4:13 minutes !!! Perhaps one of the fastest presidential reversals of all time.

Our question: just how many more stupid decisions will be made by this administration? That he reversed himself on this matter is great. That he made the decision in the first place is beyond dumb. He is out of touch with the people he is to serve and that is given evidence almost daily.

We give you reference to the two opposing stories - note the time stamp on each:

Here is the stunning headline declaring Obama's refusal to fund rescue worker's health care bill. (time of post - 4:24 pm)

Here is the headline that reports the reversal (time of original post - 8:37 pm)

You read it first here at Midknight Review and is original by this Review -- jds.
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