Sorry, long story/post, but its to set up a Hurricane opinion!
I've never been poor...but the other week, I was ringing someone up at a local grocery store, and I had to explain to a nice older lady how to use the food stamp machine. (They're not actually stamps anymore, but more of a credit card if you will.) I had to make sure to explain to her that her gold braclets cant get in the way of swiping the card, and for her to be careful not to loose her card in the genuine aligator leather purse she owns. And I'm sure I can hear it now..."well maybe she owned those items before!" Yes, maybe she did...but she bought some fancy items with her food stamps too. I believe over 150 dollars worth. Of course, she ate better than my family does on two paychecks.
I know many people do not abuse the foodstamp/welfare system, but all I ever seem to know are the people who do abuse it. So excuse me, and rest of unpolitically correct America, if we sit in our Ivory Tower (which by the way, WE payed for without any sort of stamp, check, or special benefit from the United States Government), and judge the citizens who are putting the lives of resuce works in jepordy.
When the President address the situation two days beforehand, declaring a state of emergency, and having to FORCE the "mayor" of New Orleans to order a manatory evacuation...Somehow most of the city gets to leave. But the 150,000 or so who do not leave have their reasons.
The infirmed, disabled and/or ill (these are people who should be rescued first), or the THOUSANDS of medical works who stayed to man the hospitals...only to GET SHOT AT FOR THEIR DRUGS, they also should be resuced first. But the people who were stuck at the Super(Bad Idea)Dome should be delt with according to the standard everyone else is being resuced with. At least these people have a place to stay that is supposed to be dry...and don't tell me about "no food, water" because I distinctly remembering them being told to bring 3-4 days worth of food for themselves, if they chose to come.
I am sick and tired of hearing people who claim to want to help, blaming and yelling that those of us uneffected (at least physically) by this hurricane. Why doesn't the excellent mayor get off the National Radio scene and GO HELP HIS PEOPLE. Instead of telling us that "we're being racist because we didnt send any buses" why doesn't go drive a few of the 500 left behind.
I'm sorry for this tirade but these attacks on conservatives and President Bush have to stop...
By the way, this was a post I made on a local discussion board, so if some of this stuff seems off topic, IT IS! lol...
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. . . about 48% of voters still consider the democrats relevant . . .
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More like 33%. 15% of that total is bums off the street given crack and Thunderbird to vote, dead people and stuffed ballot boxes. You do know the only thing the Mafia fears is the demoRAT machine.