After Hurricane Andrew, FEMA mailed thousands of dollars in the forms of disaster relief checks to many people in South Florida who were uninsured, but the Katrina victims don't have access to mailboxes and front porches anymore, and the banks "aren't working", all because several generations of Republican and Democrat politicians and government agencies spent money on other things like a bridge to an Alaskan island, rather than fixing a levee that not only made it possible for stupid people to move there, but also should have been fixed for transporting 25 million tons of grain and five million tons of steel each year.
I don't know if uninsured people should get handouts in the first place, but its my understanding that the ones who have insurance HAVE TO PAY IT BACK once the insurance kicks in, so in that case, it's fine with me.
I don't know if giving away money is cost effective, but I know Katrina victims need clothes, food, medicine and they don't have JOBS anymore, but most of them want to work. I spent time working in NoLa, I was one of the few white people working in a large black company and dealing with mostly black people, and canvassing black businesses neighborhoods and I don't remember meeting any that were on welfare of the couple thousand that I met.
It was stupid to live in New Orleans in the first place, but I guess Barbara Bush should be real popular right now around FR for talking like they are better off for their suffering.
New Orleans is 3/4 black, and you are all lumping the predominantly law abiding, hard working black people in with some bad apples. Immature racists.
That should have been "some of you all...."