Cross-posted from Tort Deform

The following article gives great coverage of the issue of Ground Zero Workers’ illnesses that has been covered many times before here on Tort Deform. This piece touches upon many of the issues that have been touched on before including: the safety is too expensive business model.

I hope to go back and dissect smaller portions of the article, but for right now I just want to make syre it available to our readers. For anybody considering supporting Giuliani for President because of his bravery and resolve in the wake of 9/11, this article should give you……………..a great deal of pause.

From the NY Times:

Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani’s Legacy
By ANTHONY DePALMA
Anyone who watched Rudolph W. Giuliani preside over ground zero in the days after 9/11 glimpsed elements of his strength: decisiveness, determination, self-confidence.
Those qualities were also on display over the months he directed the cleanup of the collapsed World Trade Center. But today, with evidence that thousands of people who worked at ground zero have become sick, many regard Mr. Giuliani’s triumph of leadership as having come with a human cost. (keep reading)