Posted on 09/07/2005 9:06:21 AM PDT by cgk
...developing.
Searched, no story yet.
Your source for that other than they are black and make less than you?
Somehow I have a hard time believing you voluntarily give to anything bigger than yourself. Go flap flap your own tits.
Why would you buy 'em when you can just waltz into any store and loot a few pair?
This is just the FIRST INSTALLMENT, watch the gov't recharge them monthly, till at least the next Presidential election!
As long as there is a prevention of fraud on a major scale (I know there won't be), this will probably be an ok stopgap measure.
Of course, I would buy beer and video games, but that's just me :)
So the question is, can you GET flood insurance in New Orleans? If you can't, you should NOT rebuild. The Federal Government is not meant to be an INSURANCE PROGRAM!
You speak the truth....
Exactly!
You could be right.
Although I hasten to add that I did not count stuff spent on non-essentials in my 95% figure.
I used that percentage because I've been involved, through my years, in several instances where settlement checks and such had to be distributed.
With a halfway decent system, it was always acceptable that 5% of the money would be distributed incorrectly, lost, etc.
In this case, and not including what is actually PURCHASED with the money, which will likely never be monitored, I might reduce that acceptable percentage to 85-90%.
Factor in goods (drugs?) purchased with the money, then your number is probably closer to correct.
On another note, I notice Hillary out and about, all grand and announcing her legislation to REVERSE the legislation that SHE voted for.
I speak of creating the feel-good-sounding name of the Department of Homeland Security. That's a liberal thing if ever there was one.
Then she has the nerve to say she wants to get it back to the way it was during the Clinton administration. So why did she change it?
Further, why can't one of those reporters raise their tiny, teeny hands and ask the lady this?
Man, they're not shy about asking Bush if he's going to fire Karl Rove or the FEMA head. THIS lady is a senator, NOT the first lady. Why can't they ask her this?
It is UP to 2000 per FAMILY. to help them get a home and hopefully a life.
Several of us (many?) employ that as our primary FReeping strategery.
The ignorance displayed by our uninformed responses often makes subsequent posts more colorful.
"We stockpiled vegetables that we had grown all summer and lost it all . I don't consider myself an ingrate. I consider myself a taxpayer and an American and if our government can send money and food to all these other countries what the hell is the problem with sending it here? I live in Mississippi and I can assure people here are not acting like those people in New Orleans"
I am sure their comment are not directed at you, or those like you. I will be totaly happy if YOU can get a card like they will be passing out in the Dome's to tide you over. I think some people are freaking out at the idea of 250,000 government tax payer funded debit cards though!
Please excuse my bluntness are you living in the real world or the world hill&bill built?
The smart people evaced and the dumb stayed. The only good thing is our tax dollars will be used here at home instead of some other third world country.
Ignorance is no excuse and as to NOLA,"I do not know you and therefore I do not owe you."
Mississippi was hit far harder, but I do not see the anarchists popping out of the wood work.
My words to NOLA get a friggin J-O-B, do not put on your sunglasses, light up a kool and sit on your ass. ""This is not the promise land for the welfare class.
In my neck of the woods I have already ready seen the scam players come into our churches looking for a handout.
It ain't gonna work down here and when people develop an attitude thinking I owe them, they can go straight to hell!!!!
You can give them all your savings, if you like. It may make you get that feel good feeling.
Charity begins at home for my own real brothers and sisters, not to some P.C. idealogical touchy feely syndrome.
One only fails in life when they fail themselve's.
Never to quit,
NSNR-NBF
Since they made such great choices before the hurricane. /sarcasm
Hey TR,
Normally it is the go to the catholic churches and con the liberal priest's for money with a sad story.
This has been a lucrative scam all over the country. The allusion of helping the poor downtrodden, who then take that money and buy wine/crack.
This is done by many different races, to gleam the cube.
The truth is not always nice,
NSNR-CSAOTL
Geez, in this real estate market I'm not sure you can find a 27 bedroom for 2K....
Pawn shops already offer fifty-cents on the dollar for gift cards, ie: WalMart, Target, Sam's, etc. I doubt that it would be that hard to do the same with these.
Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.
One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:
"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.
We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.
"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."
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