[angelsonmyside]

Wonder how many will finally go back to work once the free housing plays out?

[mtbopfuyn]

if the Federal Emergency Management Agency puts out hundreds

Puts out??? Those whiners should have been out ages ago. Sitting around hotel rooms living off the taxpayers should have gotten them kicked out on their rears a long time ago. And I'd be writing the newspaper complaining I'd vote for no current city commissioner or mayor if the city continued to house those low lifes.

[Retired Chemist]

It's amazing these people haven't made an effort to find permanent housing after all this time!

[Mark was here]

I don't think it would be right to move people into trailers.

It would violate their Constitutional Right to Room Service.

[frankjr]

It's about time the local govt did something instead of relying on the Feds to babysit them.

[blu]

While I applaud the mayor of Lake Charles for his take-charge, caring actions, the snark in me wants to know:

How have all the evacuees affected the city's finances? I suspect an upsurge in the local economy. I would hate to know that the mayor is just trying to prop up the local economy.

If there are no homes to be had in Lake Charles, surely the evacuees could find housing somewhere else. I can understand them wanting to stay close to home, but having to depend on a govt agency to tell you how long you can stay at a certain place seems rather a)Orwellian or b)Somebody take care of me!

Wanna bet that if the FEMA deadline is imposed and the evacuees have no local choice besides the Civic Center, they'll pick up stakes and move on to the next, better accommodated, city?

When, exactly, did these people give their lives over to the govt? Has it really been 4 months since the hurricanes? Good Gawd, people, either go home or make your own darn home!

[blu]

While I applaud the mayor of Lake Charles for his take-charge, caring actions, the snark in me wants to know:

How have all the evacuees affected the city's finances? I suspect an upsurge in the local economy. I would hate to know that the mayor is just trying to prop up the local economy.

If there are no homes to be had in Lake Charles, surely the evacuees could find housing somewhere else. I can understand them wanting to stay close to home, but having to depend on a govt agency to tell you how long you can stay at a certain place seems rather a)Orwellian or b)Somebody take care of me!

Wanna bet that if the FEMA deadline is imposed and the evacuees have no local choice besides the Civic Center, they'll pick up stakes and move on to the next, better accommodated, city?

When, exactly, did these people give their lives over to the govt? Has it really been 4 months since the hurricanes? Good Gawd, people, either go home or make your own darn home!

[rockabyebaby]

We're STILL paying for these people? When/where does it end?

[river rat]

I'm sure the "good citizens" that have been hunkered down in hotels for the past several months - have expressed great gratitude for the generosities extended them, and have done everything within their ability to become a little more selfsufficient...

< /sarcasm>

Semper Fi

[taillightchaser]

Well, at least now the hotel owners can finally start cleaning and repairing their hotels that have no doubt been trashed.
Wonder if the government will pay for that too.

[Ninian Dryhope]

They should have been kicked out of those hotels a long time ago.

[cardinal4]

How many of these evacuees have been working while on the federal dole?