Republicans to 9/11 first responders: Drop dead

Republicans would greatly appreciate it if the 9/11 first responders would please hurry up and die because they don't want to pay for their health anymore, especially as they consider the costs to be a NYC issue and not a federal issue. This is wrong and disrespects and dishonors people who ran into a burning pit looking for survivors and then spent weeks digging in a toxic mess looking for victims. Getting skimpy on health benefits for the 9/11 first responders that are a drop in the ocean of current federal spending is not going to make or break the federal budget.

The 9/11 attacks were against the US, not NYC. We have the money. We just choose to spend it elsewhere, such as bailing out banks and giving even larger tax cuts to the rich -- the same people all those firefighters and police officers at the WTC died trying to save. But the real irony is that these are the same first responder types who would have run into the Capitol to save everybody they could, Democrats, Republicans, civilians etc if that plane had crashed into the building on 9/11 and will save them if another attack does happen.

The GOP claims they care so much about our troops yet they spent the first decade sending them to get blown up in war and then didn't properly take care of the wounded when they returned home broken. The GOP claimed that we had to take such a hard stand for 9/11...yet they don't want to help those who helped us. What a bunch of ingrates. A country that refuses to take care of their war wounded (and I'd argue these men and women were the first casualties of this war) deserves its fate.