Posted on 09/10/2005 12:07:53 PM PDT by xrp
Yes. The *F* word was used.
The brutha needs a new ride and some 25 inch bass speakers for his system.
This is a great article. I hope everyone takes the time to read it.
http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
I would tell him he can have more money as soon as his criminal background check is completed.
Ding, ding, ding!! Doesn't matter what you do for some people - ungrateful, lazy, gimme attitudes. He looked healthy; let him join the military and give back for once.
And while I'm ticked off - what was up with that interview w/the lady w/7 kids? I was doing something else and didn't see her face, but she sounded relatively young. What the heck is she doing w/7 kids? And of course I didn't hear a father's name mentioned once.
Not all of these people are criminals, but for those who don't want to go back to NO, I wonder what they can contribute to their new communities? I don't see much.
He will no doubt be a future Oprah guest.
You can send it to me in Seattle. I'll make sure he gets it.
I guess the F-Bomb sounds the same in EBONICS
I agree. In fact, I was downright ticked about the government giveaway for 9-11-01. I can't remember the numbers involved, but the public opened their hearts and wallets to give an incredible amount to the victims. Then, the government stepped in dwarfing into insignificance the large amounts donated. I thought it was a slap in the face of all those who had given. It said, "You, the public, aren't generous enough. We need to show you how to really open up your wallets and give by taxing you to do it right."
It raises a question: Why would anyone donate to a relief agency anymore if your are going to be forced to give via taxation in an amount that will dwarf your voluntary contribution? The only answer that makes sense is: Give so you feel good. In other words, giving is no longer driven by a desire to help, but rather by a desire to feel good about giving.
yup , any more interviews like that and The Red Cross will be calling , irate about the drop in donations
This clown is not at all representative of the people who have been evacuated. He probably had problems in NO and he still has them.
That little illustration of the "gimme generation" on national TV is going to really motivate people to donate, NOT!!
I think the TV anchor was more than a little sorry he told the reporterette to ask the guy ANYTHING!
The guy who owns the salon were my wife gets her nails done is Vietnamese. He told her there was a substantial Vietnamese community in the NO area. He personally had several family members there.
He was proud of several "facts" that he repeated.
1. There was no looting or lawlessness after the flood in the Vietnamese section, they policed it themselves.
2. All of the community had been evacuated and family members took them in - no shelters.
3. Most of them have already found work or opened new business in the city they moved to.
4. Quote: "We don't want no government handout".
Don't know how much of this is hard fact or purely anecdotal conjecture but he was extremely animated and convincing.
NeverGore :^)
Wait till they start comparing this to the 1.9 mil per that 9-11 families got.
Now you're talking. That measly $2000 hardly bought anything at all at the Louis Vuitton store, where several people had already spent some of it.
$20K will go a bit farther.
I will confess right here and now that I haven't given a dime (aside from my tax dollars) for this effort. I was asked to sing at a benefit for the victims of this storm, and I said no.
I'm far from heartless. I'm actually very generous, and gave very generously after 9/11...but when stories of the behavior of those who stayed in N.O. started hitting the news (and all the "blame Bush" stuff began), I just lost my will to go out of my way to help.
I know there are a lot of good and decent people (probably the vast majority) who appreciate the assistance they're getting, and who are appropriate and deserving recipients of charity - but guys like this, and the people who looted stores and shot at rescue workers...well, they just made me lose my desire to do anything above and beyond my obligation as a taxpayer.
I doubt I'm alone. It's terrible, I know, but that's how I feel.
The other day when Geraldo was covering the evacuation of the SuperDome and convention center, he pointed out a group of Vietnamese who were sitting calmly, refusing to be evacuated until everyone else was.
They were from a particular Vietnamese Catholic church in NO.
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