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To: cgk

So if you are self-relant, smart enough to get out of Dodge and stay with relatives, etc., or even pay for hotel space far away from the path, then you're SOL?


49 posted on 09/07/2005 9:45:54 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: NonValueAdded

I'd say the people floating in the water dead are the ones who are SOL.


57 posted on 09/07/2005 9:48:01 AM PDT by notigar
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To: NonValueAdded
then you're SOL?

Of course. What a country!

60 posted on 09/07/2005 9:49:12 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: NonValueAdded

>>>>So if you are self-relant, smart enough to get out of Dodge and stay with relatives, etc., or even pay for hotel space far away from the path, then you're SOL?

Probably not, I suspect this is just the first phase of the great vote buyoff - or disaster aid, as I guess the kids call it these days. Regardless, you couldn't pay me enough to have spent those days stuck in the superdome, so I'd gradly lose the 2K to have been self reliant and smart enough to have gotten out early.

patent


62 posted on 09/07/2005 9:50:16 AM PDT by patent (A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg)
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To: NonValueAdded
So if you are self-relant, smart enough to get out of Dodge and stay with relatives, etc., or even pay for hotel space far away from the path, then you're SOL?

That's usually how it works.

I should catch a flight out with a few grand in my pocket. I bet I could buy these cards for a quarter on the dollar in the next day or two on the street.

88 posted on 09/07/2005 10:04:06 AM PDT by riri
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To: NonValueAdded
So if you are self-relant, smart enough to get out of Dodge and stay with relatives, etc., or even pay for hotel space far away from the path, then you're SOL?

Nope. FEMA has lots of goodies to hand out (grants, loans, living assistance, rent assistance, business assistance programs, food stamps, etc.) Worked well in Pensacola area after Ivan. Big boost to the economy. These people spend it all on local merchants at inflated prices. You know, the rich get richer. New Orleans will be booming in 6 months. Buy real estate there now, it will soon escalate like crazy.

122 posted on 09/07/2005 10:36:06 AM PDT by AmusedBystander
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To: NonValueAdded

"So if you are self-relant, smart enough to get out of Dodge and stay with relatives, etc., or even pay for hotel space far away from the path, then you're SOL?"



Please ping me if you get an answer to your question. I have lots of friends who were displaced, but who are staying with friends or in hotels...


154 posted on 09/07/2005 11:11:05 AM PDT by Pirogue Captain
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To: NonValueAdded

so are they paying the people that evacuated on their own also? Hope so.


243 posted on 09/07/2005 1:33:57 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: NonValueAdded
Exactly.

Those who took responsibility for themselves, and bore the expense for getting themselves out will get squat.

Those who relied on government to take care of them get a payday.

254 posted on 09/07/2005 2:11:17 PM PDT by Jotmo ("Voon", said the mattress.)
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