Posted on 09/16/2005 8:01:28 PM PDT by Ramtek57
Rescue and recovery workers returning from New Orleans say they've found a shocking number of victims who died - not from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters - but from gunshot wounds and other forms of violence apparently inflicted by gangs who terrorized the city after the storm struck.......
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I know where you are coming from. I've been dirt poor before and I've left the welfare office crying before because of the disdainful attitude of the person handling my case. I don't want to sound heartless to this woman's plight. I just don't want people to look on this and say this is a horrible job that FEMA and the Red Cross are doing overall. This whole situation is out of the norm and has to be looked at in that context.
My sister works for the state at the Job Service in NE Louisiana. Since the day of the hurricane, she has worked long into the evening, Saturday and Sunday without a day off. The state office there is helping FEMA and the Red Cross because they know how overwhelmed they are. People from the local shelters are being brought in and the state workers are interviewing them to find out their needs. They help them fill out FEMA and Red Cross paperwork. They also look to see if they qualify for any other government assistance or programs. They are even doing their normal job and are helping them find jobs if they want to work while they are deciding what they will eventually do.
My sister said that you just can't imagine how big this is and don't know how many people have been affected until you've sat behind your desks for days and days and heard heartbreaking story and story.
Hmmmm...maybe I should drive over to Berkeley Springs and just kick that woman in the butt anyway....LOL!
[I'm kidding...she's had enough crap already]...;)
Totally agree. New Orleans was a sick place. No need to pour all Americans' money into that hole.
Right. And that sick, incompetent, uppity smart*ss had the gall to arrogantly bellow the other day, "I'm tired of hearing these helicopters, I want to hear some jazz."
The guy deserves to be hung............. after a proper trial of course.
Something will always be wrong in New Orleans. The place will always be a decadent smelly hole. The Louisiana politicians are going NOWHERE. The place will always be a hole, and it is a terrible shame (crime) that the federal government is giving that craphole city Americans' hard earned tax dollars.
I say get all the animals and humans out of N.O., knock down the levees, and say goodbye to that dump of a city forever.
p.s. Leave Nagin there ........ oh, he already moved to a nice house in Dallas.
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Nagin: "I'm tire of hearing these helicopters, I want to hear some jazz."
The sick incompetent b*stard belongs at the end of a rope............. after a proper trial, of course.
;-)
I'm wondering about Col Hunt after that one. Seemed more than a little tinfoil hattish.
Yeah, I wasn't getting her either. Her home is destroyed, says she's not going back, she's still drawing a paycheck and yet complains that she needs furniture? What's she gonna do stuff it in her trunk.
She has been help all along the way she just wants more, bottom line.
BTTT
When Tx Gov Rick Perry should have been blockading the highways into Texas from this criminal vermin he opened his arms and invited a quarter million people into our state and did nothing to weed out the criminal element.
Now Texans are being preyed upon by those criminals.
I hope someone is archiving these stories somewhere, otherwise they will fade from memory.
Also keep in mind that most of those people affected don't have computers, so they just can't hop online and post their story. It is likely we'll never hear most of the horror stories from down there.
This sick fellow, Beggin' Nagin, is so arrogant and out of reality, I really think he needs a good drug test!
And, I'd like to smack his sorry lame *ss into next week!
We post plenty of stories of scams pulled on the Red Cross,too..We can't have it both ways..
"The Red Cross is apparently "screwing up" just like they after 911. "
Interesting story. The Red Cross was also embroiled in scandal after the OKC bombing. People were sending money to specific survivors. The survivors would recieve the well-wishing cards from the donators, but the Red Cross kept the cash.
BUMP!
Pretty broad generalization there..Disasters bring problems...I am proud of Texas and the Governor...Most of the people are not criminals and needed shelter..We'll catch the criminal vermin.
The press has been reporting hysterically for weeks. I have no idea who the doctor is but he wouldn't have been interviewed if he didn't fit the agenda.
Eddie Compass might want to rethink that.
There was footage on Fox of the Natl' Guard going through these buildings and the Commander saying they found no bodies in freezers. But that doesn't fit the "blame Bush" pressies agenda either.
I take everything I hear in the news with a grain of salt since the "10,000" dead haven't appeared. This stuff is just a new angle on the "Bushs fault for not sending the Guard in sooner" story.
I know a number of World War 2 veterans who carry a grudge against the Red Cross from that war. Stories like the RC charging big dollars for sweaters knitted and donated to soldiers for free, charging excessively for coffee and donuts for soldiers fresh back from front lines, etc. And they are very profane in their language describing the RC.
Then they are plenty STOOPID! I would have been shocked had they NOT stolen guns
I agree. The gun shops inventory should have been been moved and secured. I don't consider that compelling (or assisting) a gun shop to remove or secure its wares as a second amendment issue, just common sense. But the Left will try and make this situation fit into its anti-gun agenda. The only thing stopping a press release, right now, from the Brady Campaign is the race issue.
"Pretty broad generalization there..Disasters bring problems...I am proud of Texas and the Governor...Most of the people are not criminals and needed shelter..[b]We'll catch the criminal vermin."[/b]
Yeah after they commit crimes in Texas. Hopefully it wont be you or yours...its different then.
I think Texas was too busy thinking with their heart as opposed to their heads. Even now most are in denial about the ramifications of the criminals that were welcomed here with open arms. Most cant seem to admit there are people we should help (law abiding) as well as people we should shun (criminals).
Both groups rode buses to Texas so both should be discussed.
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