Posted on 09/07/2005 11:05:21 PM PDT by Lorianne
Isn't that 20% of the population? That seems high.
Welfare scam?
Disabled, as in "I can't lift anything, I have a bad attitude"?
Thats what I was thinking... 100,000 out of what 500,000... hmmm BS. Someone's bs'in for a SS check.
and they used the flooded buses pic?? I feel faint.
CNN is reporting that they found 30 bodies in an old folks home.
That is simply criminal.
Unbelieveable.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "The Constitution is Finished: Not the US One, the Atlanta One"
" Welfare scam?"
That's a good guess.
I once was working a job that had interaction with groups of people who fit the same sort of description. Countless people were on welfare / social security, and their disability ranged from "she ain't right" to "he hears voices". Basically, whatever they could sell to the people screening their social security applications.
It's kind of sad - generations of wards of the welfare state passing along the only job skill they've ever known - getting free money from uncle sugar. Think of all the wasted potential that sits in cities like that - all because for decades liberals have been selling them the same "blame whitey" / "you're disenfranchised" / "you don't need a father for your babies when you've got a welfare check" mentality.
How many doctors, engineers, researchers - almost anything - have been lost to the mentality of "barely surviving by living off the government"?
FNC's Major Garrett: Red Cross Blocked by Order of the Louisiana State Government
Because many of them were getting SSI ?
bttt
I am referring to this:
Scott McClellan Strikes Back (vs David Gregory at WH Press Briefing)
I betcha dollars to donuts that this is a primary reason why buses were not used to ferry the carless out of NOLA, they never had agreed on a plan to set up shelters, other than some virtually meaningless document required for fed funding. Further, I bet one huge reason for that was that cities around the state balked at taking in all the 'problem demographics' from NOLA.
I doubt they had many bus drivers available on 8/28. They were probably all skedaddling with the crooked cops and politicians.
"But Kris Wartelle, spokeswoman for the attorney general of Louisiana, said state law clearly gives the mayor the authority to "direct and compel the evacuation of all or part of the population from any stricken or threatened area."
But blank Blanco said today that was her decision to make, not the NO mayor's??
"They're not confused about it. He had the authority to do it," Wartelle said."
I damn well bet he is after she counter ordered, his order to evacuate those remaining.
I am so confused with LA and NO political wrangling my head is spinning. Jeeze, no wonder Bush could do nothing with these two jerkoffs engaging in naught but infighting while people died, and are dying yet.
Driving a bus is not rocket science. Even the 19 year old kid could do it and he'd never driven a bus in his life.
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