Metadish, Fresh from NYC

Shh, just keep shopping and everything will be all right.

Mayor Bloomberg caved in last night and ordered the city to pay up so a former top aide to Rudy Giuliani can get medical benefits for his Ground Zero-related illness.

Maybe we should take his compensation out of the salary of the head of the EPA.

EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced today that results from the Agency’s air and drinking water monitoring near the World Trade Center and Pentagon disaster sites indicate that these vital resources are safe. Whitman also announced that EPA has been given up to $83 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support EPA’s involvement in cleanup activities and ongoing monitoring of environmental conditions in both the New York City and Washington metropolitan areas following last week’s terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

“We are very encouraged that the results from our monitoring of air quality and drinking water conditions in both New York and near the Pentagon show that the public in these areas is not being exposed to excessive levels of asbestos or other harmful substances,” Whitman said. “Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink,” she added.

Since we’re apparently back in the era of trickle down economy, I wish the zero accountability factor would trickle down too. I’d like to just go kick somebody in the nuts and then explain to them in incomplete, broken sentences and made up words that it was because I was a patriot.

CITY GIVES IN ON RUDY PAL [NY Post]

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