Tell Your Senator to Vote NO On The Asbestos Bailout Bikk

On February 6, 2006, Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) brought to the floor of the US Senate an asbestos bill that is just another special-interest bailout- this one for the corporations that knowingly poisoned hundreds of thousands of Americans. The asbestos companies put people at risk, even long after they knew that asbestos caused cancer and other diseases. They knowingly poisoned people and covered it up. Now, they've come to Congress looking for a bailout that would leave some victims without enough money to cover their medical costs and could potentially leave the American taxpayers with as much as a hundred-billion-dollar tab. http://action.peopleoverprofits.org/ctt.asp?u=33562&l=116303

Tell Congress to oppose the Asbestos Bailout Bill As a result, people like Charles Sales, 23, of Hot Springs, AR, suffer with mesothelioma, an always fatal cancer caused only by asbestos. A non-smoker and in excellent health before his diagnosis, Charles and his wife, who have a two year-old daughter, planned on expanding their family. His wife will soon be a widow though, as most victims don't live longer than twelve months after their diagnosis. Charles' father and grandfather, employed at the lumber mill where he would eventually work, carried asbestos fibers home on their clothing, exposing young Charles to the deadly product.

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Tell Congress to oppose the Asbestos Bailout Bill Before being diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer, Sandy Linden of Omaha, NE was an active, athletic mother of five; she had even taken part in a marathon. Now, she spends her time traveling between Omaha and Chicago for CT scans, surgery, and chemotherapy treatments. Since her mesothlioma diagnosis, Sandy has had her diaphragm, a lung, and two ribs removed. She can only sleep on one side of her body because of the pain, and the entire left side ofher chest and breast are numb. At times she feels that she is suffocating from the Gore-Tex that replaced the sac around her heart and lung. She can no longer work and is unable to secure long-term care.

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Facts about the Asbestos Bailout Bill The asbestos companies kept putting people at risk for thirty years after they learned that asbestos caused cancer and other diseases. They knowingly poisoned people and covered it up. The bill creates new obstacles and delays for victims, designed to protect asbestos companies. Under this bill, many asbestos victims will die of their disease before receiving compensation. Most studies show that the actual cost of compensating asbestos victims over the next thirty years will be at least one hundred billion dollars more than the size of the trust fund created by this bill. The last thing we can afford is a bill that gives a hundred-billion-dollar handout to big asbestos companies. Corporations should pay the cost of the illnesses they caused, not taxpayers. The asbestos bailout bill allows big asbestos companies to pay only twenty-five percent of the real cost of compensating their victims, so it's no surprise these companies support this bill.

Please tell Congress to oppose the asbestos trust fund, a trust fund victims can't trust.

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