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I saw this too and was appalled by the likening of the evacuation effort to "slave ships," the use of the f-word, the labeling of the Red Cross and FEMA as "fruads and failures," and the insistence that he and all the victims of Katrina were entitled to $20,000.

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.

the programs that have been started,just to put these "takers" in some form of work situation , usually get cut back or stopped altogether,BECAUSE,they know the drill by now ,... be as unproductive and unattentive as possible, you'll get $$$$ for doing barely nothing

Has there been ANY thought to offering the evacuees a chance to volunteer?

The other day, FNC reported that at one of the centers, either the Astrodome or the River Center in Baton Rouge, they had set up tables to register volunteers from among the evacuees. They were looking for people to hand out food, clean up the place, etc.. I've not seen another report as to how successful they were. Somehow I doubt that they got many volunteers. But then, I'm a cynic.