This is exactly what the vogue refugee needs and deserves...right?
FEMA could simply give these out at the gates of the Astrodome....
Posted on 09/10/2005 1:45:58 AM PDT by guitarnick40
Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated families - in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta.
"We've seen three of the cards," said a senior employee of the Louis Vuitton store at the Lenox Square Mall in affluent Buckhead, who asked not to be named. "Two I'm certain have purchased; one actually asked if she could use it in the store. This has been since Saturday."
The distinctive white cards were distributed by the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and carry a value of up to $2,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Atlanta
Were it me, I'd withdraw the cash from the card and then sell the card for $1500.
QUESTION - Can I buy Kanye West CDs with this card?
Heard a short radio clip on ABC radio Friday. Guy bitching "Only $2000? I need $10,000. I've got 8 kids"
The fraud associated with this is probably beyond belief.
How does anyone know the recipients are really evacuees? Are you gonna write down your previous New Orleans address that nobody could possibly verify?
Does every person over age eighteen get his/her own two grand?
They weren't tattooed with the letter "E" before getting on buses leaving New Orleans. I could say I had to leave New Orleans last week, too.
Where's my two grand?
I'm leaving for Houston today to pick up my $2,000.
We'll probably find out later one third of adults in America eventually received $2,000 as hurricane victims.
Too bad New Orleans wasn't about fifty feet farther below sea level.
Easy money!
With 8 kids, no house, no car, no job...only the clothes on their backs.... he's got a point, $2,000 won't last long. Good incentive for him to spend it wisely.
Hope he finds a charitable organization that will help him with some material essentials and a job so that will help him get on his financial feet again soon.
And maybe more that he does not know about. People are disgusting.
I know it's not tax season, but if you look at the income tax structure, you will see that they get far more than that in the form of zero tax on the income, PLUS the Earned (mmisnomer) Income Credit.
This is exactly what the vogue refugee needs and deserves...right?
FEMA could simply give these out at the gates of the Astrodome....
So I heard...they are now direct depositing the funds into people's bank accounts. The issue here is not the funds but the people, what would stop them from using those funds in getting the same luxury items instead of what they need? Do you think that the Coach stores will say NO to cash or bank ATM/Visa cards? They'll misuse the funds regardless on how they are being paid.
Once I found out that the DC "refugees" teamed up with moveon.org, to march on the White House, ALL donations were discontinued from this household.
I managed to oputfit BOTH my kids for the upcomong winter -- snowboots and all -- at Target, for about $250.
Amen! To tell the truth, I was shocked when I read a couple of these evacs were using their cards at a Louis Vuitton store.
Not shocked that they were doing it, but that they could find anything in the LV store they could afford with that $2K. What did they buy? A little LV key chain?
Heck...I could have furnished and decorated an apartment, as well as clothed the whole family from a thrift store, with money left over. I hope the left doesn't look down on thrift stores....the ultimate recycler.
One other difference between these cards and a direct deposit is the merchant, or anyone else for that matter, will have no idea of the source of the funds. So the public will not know how the money might be abused. Ergo, no bad publicity.
100% predictable. Surely no one here is surprised.
Do you think they are giving anybody anything out of the goodness of their heart.
And undoubtedly some of them would have gone to white middle class citizens. Or are you under the impression that there was some sort of race test or that only black citizens were evacuated?
I am frankly tired of watching freepers who should know better swallow the race baiting kool-aid being served up by the MSM in one gulp.
You know better then that.
You are better then that.
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