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.
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've been a victim of liberalism for 40 years. I deserve $20K too. LOL
Also saw the Red Cross dude announce they were looking for 40,000 more volunteers. All those who volunteer will receive training and be a pool of folks available for future disasters. Has there been ANY thought to offering the evacuees a chance to volunteer? Learn a trade or skill if they are unskilled? Put to use training or skills they already have? Put them in a position to use their free time to aid others? Give them the joy of helping others? Put them in contact with Red Cross and other organizations' leaders who might recognize their industriousness and all-around good attitude to hire them for a paying job? HMMMM?
I know I'd be bored to tears sitting on a cot and looking for something to do -- hand out food, come up with games for the kids, teach people to use the computer, sort donations, wash cars, read the paper to an elderly person whose eyesight is dwindling . . . etc.
At the risk of repeating another post from last night:
Everyone on thos forum coninuously complains about the MSM coverage and how biased it is. This still holds true but you are buying into it like Demos.
You are being sold a bill of goods.
My wife and I worked at Brown Convention Center last Thursday and the people there don't resemble the slackards that you all so colorfully describe.
My wife had a woman come up to her and ask for some Tampax. My wife handed her a box and the woman opened and removed four and said thank you. My wife stopped her and handed her the box. The woman said "I'll just take these, someone else may need the others." My wife replied "Don't worry, we'll get more"
A man came in looking for cloth bathtowels. He picked up four and my wife asked how many family members he had. He replied "nine". She gave him another 6 towels and he was speechless.
One man picked up a toothbrush and my wife asked how many were in his group. He said four. So she gave him four toothbrushes with toothpaste for each. He couldn't believe that we would do this.
The evacuees are being extremely thrifty with the relief supplies. The people you are seeing on TV are brigands, hand picked by the media in order to inflate ratings.
Y'all are buying into a lie.
Bigtime.
They should have had this guy on the telethon last night so he express his desire for more money.
I remember Push (a guy who lost his wife on 9/11, wailed on Larry King and other places about how he lost his life when she died and then turned around and remarried before his wife's body was cold) told Feinberg the amount of money he was to be awarded was not sufficient (over a million dollars), and Feinberg told Push to please have a press conference and tell the American people that several million dollars was not enough for him.
The greed and political agenda exhibited by some of the 9/11 families made me lose sympathy for them and I see the same thing happening with the NO evacuees.
I gave $50 the Salvation Army last week and I'm not tempted to open my checkbook again.
PING!!!!!!!
your right he did say the f word and the Fox News guy said something like hey we aren't going to take that or something to that effect. How does he think he is entitled to $20,000 and as far as those Debit Cards maybe there finding people are buying booze and cigs and useless stuff aand that is why they are stopping the program
AS WE SEE THE ATTITUDE OF ENTITLEMENT CONTINUES
This fine example of manhood is what will turn the US population against the refugees in about another week of TV coverage. The decent people will find jobs, while the pimps, drug dealers, and fat freeloaders will be making trouble and finding the TV cameras to whine to. No help for whiners!