Red tape angers storm victim

Northwest Florida Daily News ^ | 08/06/2005 | ROBBYN BROOKS Daily News Staff Writer

[brivette]

Formatting is your friend.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

More of the entitlement mentality.

[Red Badger]

“Put money aside. Even if it is $10 or $20. You can’t depend on the government for nothing,” Morgan said. “We have to take care of each other because the government isn’t going to do it.”

Sez it all........

[Red Badger]

it was formatted when I posted it!..........

[tfecw]

" Nichole, three days worth of clothing and not much else" I'm confused about that. My jeans have lasted for about 4 years now. Maybe she's shopping at the wrong type of stores.

Sucks to rely on the guvment to provide for you. Now if we had a national food stamp program, this wouldn't be a problem (loony Liberal Logic)

[KarlInOhio]

I'm confused about that. My jeans have lasted for about 4 years now.

Your Y-chromosome is showing.

[Fred911]

This woman is lucky,the government don't give her nuthin and I suspect thats equal to what she pays in taxes.... Not only does the government give me nuthin, I have to pay about a third of what I earn to get nuthin.

By the way, what a stroke of genius...to put away $10 or $20 just in case....pure genius

[subterfuge]

Whatever Brandeen.

[NonValueAdded]

So the pendulum swings and you get fradulent claims with little or no red tape like the Miami area bilking of the 2004 storm aid ... so the pendulum swings ...

[Red Badger]

???.........

[Clock King]

"Put money aside. Even if it is $10 or $20. You can’t depend on the government for nothing,"

My mother taught me this lesson starting when I was 5. What was she doing, playing around? But then she was a Great Depression era baby herself. The greatest crime the Left has done is that they have broken the common wisdom of ages that people passed down from parent to child for millenia.

[markman46]

are you prepared for the next big earthquake, and you home has been destroyed?

[subterfuge]

Sorry. The whiner in the article sounds like a character on the TV show the Simpsons, Brandeen. She is married to the local yokle whose name I can't recall. They are what you'd call mega-hicks.

[SuziQ]

She is confused by what she calls “red tape” and said she has learned an important lesson. “Put money aside. Even if it is $10 or $20. You can’t depend on the government for nothing,” Morgan said.

Have these people NEVER been through a hurricane? You ALWAYS have enough medication for members of the family who need it. Bring clothes and food and water enough for several days. And you'll HAVE to have some cash. As people even in the interior areas such as Hattiesburg and Jackson MS discovered, when the power goes out, credit card machines are useless, as are ATMs!

[Red Badger]

I don't watch commercial/broadcast TV..........

[subterfuge]

You're better off. I'm a shut-in...

[Red Badger]

You're shut in a TV set? Do we need to call Sean Penn or Geraldo?...........

[DallasMike]

Fellow Freepers:

At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.

Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, and shelter.

If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you.

Right now the site mostly covers Houston and Dallas but I will add various churches, schools, and other charities in San Antonio and Ft. Worth tonight. My wife is down at Reunion Arena in Dallas as we speak handing out care packages and otherwise ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer.

There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would be most appreciative if you would get the word out.

Many thanks,

Michael McCullough

Stingray blogsite

[GailA]

The House and Senate Dems are screaming about President Bush being on vacation while Katrina was happening. President Bush while on vacation gave the orders to declare NO-LA a disaster area BEFORE Katrina hit, thus triggering FEMA and federal assistance into action.

Where was CONGRESS? ON VACATION! Where was US Rep Harold Ford JUNIOR when the vote for the $10.5 Billion in assistance to the storm victims was being taken......ON VACATION!

Now the Dems are screaming about the RED TAPE....They need to point their fingers right back at themselves....THEY put those RED TAPE RULES IN PLACE in the first place!

Puting FEMA or NG tropps inside the expected storm area would have put them and their supplies in danger of being destroyed. They had to be positioned outside the expected storm zone to be able to help the storm victims.