Posted on 02/13/2006 11:16:53 AM PST by ncountylee
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge turned aside a last-minute attempt Monday to force the federal government to continue paying directly for hotel rooms of 12,000 families made homeless by last year's hurricanes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has promised evacuees from hurricanes Katrina and Rita they will still receive federal assistance they can use toward hotel stays or fixing their ruined homes, though FEMA will no longer pay for the hotels directly after Monday.
Attorneys for the evacuees tried unsuccessfully to get U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval to issue a temporary restraining order aimed at forcing FEMA to continue the direct hotel payments. The lawyers argued the forthcoming money from FEMA will not be enough for reasonable living accommodations or for continued hotel stays.
The decision would result in 8,000 to 10,000 families being put out of hotels across the United States on Monday, said Tracie Washington, an attorney representing evacuees. Many of those families began packing their bags and checking out of hotels as early as late Monday morning
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Whine at noon, 6 and 11.
people have their houses burn down everyday and don't get 6 months paid in a hotel.
Get off the federal teat, dammit! Take some responsibility for your own lives, for once! Stand-up and do what you need to do to get your disrupted lives back together and get on with it!
Oh wait, we're talking about NOLA here, aren't we? Never mind... As you were, parasites.
If Mexican's can come here and start working right away and get an apartment, why can't someone who speaks the language do that???
Well said.
Just like when they want to extend unemployment benefits. There are people who need it, but alot people won't look for a job as long as they can hang off the governments nipple.
Local news has shown several of the about to be evicted people. They weren't totally indepth interviews, yet most appeared able to do some kind of work. I know from first hand knowledge how much paperwork goes into dealing with ins and FEMA, yet I would have to ask why they weren't doing something to earn wages in between dealing with beaurocrats? (the ones that could, not the legitimately disabled.)
bump
RE: FEMA trailers. There is about an acre of them sitting empty in Baldwin County (Robertsdale or Silverhill i think) according to my Hubby, I haven't been that way lately.
LMAO!!!
Now what do you suppose most of these people are going to do with that taxpayer money?
Cutting off room service after only 5 months!
George Bush hates disaster victims!
You got that right. They are driving new trucks and buying their own homes. Remember when President Fox said, they're(mexicans) willing to take jobs that "even blacks" won't do. I live in Texas and I now look at construction sites and notice who is working and I have to say, Fox was right!
Now they'll just have to.
Been fun, but the party's over!
Or, in the vernacular, "Attorneys for the deadbeats tried unsucessfully to get another punch on their ticket for the Gravy Train."
Somehow I think this demographic was born with its hand out.
One excuse I heard this morning on the idle trailers is they can't put them in a flood plain. duh.
I see a lot of these bad boys going up and down the interstate highways and I wonder what happens when they really do become housing. Were the hell does the sewage go? Where do the get electric power?(They set up a sub station at the traier park?) Are these puppies strapped down and grounded according to regulations? What happens to these units once it occupants move to their new home?
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