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Hotel Near JFK Wants Katrina Evacuees Out As Soon As Possible
NY1.com ^ | April 5, 2006

Posted on 04/05/2006 9:06:21 AM PDT by Daytyn71

Under a deal reached Tuesday, a group of Hurricane Katrina victims staying at the Radisson Hotel near JFK will receive $2,500 if they move out of the hotel this week.

Nine families who fled Hurricane Katrina remain at the hotel, but the hotel is in the middle of a major renovation and FEMA stopped paying for the families stay in February.

Now, the hotel has agreed to pay the families to clear out as soon as possible to make way for the renovations. The hotel has agreed to pay the families $2,500 to move out this week, $2,000 if they move out next week, and $1,000 if they leave in the next 30 days.

"Hopefully I can move on and get some public housing and start working and get my life back on track,” said Katrina evacuee Charles Ebans.

“The Radisson has collected millions of dollars from Katrina survivors and I understand that a business has to make a profit, however this is just vulgar, this is greed,” said attorney Ashwani Prabhakar. “They could allow the people to stay a little while longer."

The Radisson says it will evict any evacuees still at the hotel in 45 days.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: New York
KEYWORDS: handoutcity; hurricanne; katrina; neworleans
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FEMA stopped paying for the families stay in February....“The Radisson has collected millions of dollars from Katrina survivors and I understand that a business has to make a profit, however this is just vulgar, this is greed,” said attorney Ashwani Prabhakar. “They could allow the people to stay a little while longer."

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Is this guy serious?

1 posted on 04/05/2006 9:06:24 AM PDT by Daytyn71
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To: Daytyn71
"Hopefully I can move on and get some public housing and start working and get my life back on track,” said Katrina evacuee Charles Ebans.

Count me skeptical.

2 posted on 04/05/2006 9:09:06 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Daytyn71

In my city many of the re-located.... have been living rent free for 8 months! Many do not look for jobs... it is easier for them to get welfare and beg than to do what most of us do daily.

My Opinion


3 posted on 04/05/2006 9:09:30 AM PDT by JFC (W, I am with YA)
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To: Daytyn71

all the people were doing and are still doing are roaching off the system.
They need a kick swift in the a$$ to get to work and not have their hand out all the time.
I like the way that danny crane said it last night;
These fat slobs need to get up and go to work. These people have costed us billions because they thing that they can't work.


4 posted on 04/05/2006 9:10:57 AM PDT by ziggy_dlo (freedom security:give up a little of either, you deserve neither liberalcracks)
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To: Daytyn71
"Hopefully I can move on and get some public housing and start working and get my life back on track,”

TRANSLATION:

"I've milked this cow for all I can get,maybe I can get another government hand out and get back to selling drugs like I was doing in New Orleans"

5 posted on 04/05/2006 9:11:06 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: billorites
"Hopefully I can move on and get some public housing and start working> welfare and food stamps and Medicaid and get my life back on track,” said Katrina evacuee Charles Ebans.

Fixed it.

6 posted on 04/05/2006 9:11:53 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC
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To: Daytyn71

Why do they have to pay? Why can't the hotel owner call the police and have them kicked out?


7 posted on 04/05/2006 9:11:57 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Daytyn71

Hey....I wonder if they can send all of us $2500 to keep us from going there?


8 posted on 04/05/2006 9:13:12 AM PDT by MadeInAmerica ( - Tested in the Middle East)
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To: AD from SpringBay

From the 45 days limit the Rad imposed, it sounds to me like they've already begun the legal eviction process. (Why did they wait so long?)


9 posted on 04/05/2006 9:13:55 AM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves!)
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To: CFC__VRWC

Exactly....only in America is our poor actually FAT. What other country has FAT poor people?


10 posted on 04/05/2006 9:15:27 AM PDT by MadeInAmerica ( - Tested in the Middle East)
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To: billorites

Any bets that Charles Ebans has not even LOOKED for a job in the last six months?
He could move back to New Orleans, lots of work cleaning up debris and rebuilding. But then he would have to actually go outside and work!


11 posted on 04/05/2006 9:15:56 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: billorites
Gimme Gimme Gimme

Shame on Radisson for caving in to these leeches.
12 posted on 04/05/2006 9:16:05 AM PDT by ishabibble (UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL)
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To: CFC__VRWC

yeah I work for the mediciad program here in Texas and of course everyone knows that we got the most of the evacuees and of course it is always the same sob story. Whenever they call in the first thing they say is "hi my name is such and such and i am a Katrina evacuee/victim and I need to get my scrips paid or my doctor wont bill medicaid, or I am on medicaid why did they cancel my benfits same ol same ol every f-ing day


13 posted on 04/05/2006 9:16:09 AM PDT by ziggy_dlo (freedom security:give up a little of either, you deserve neither liberalcracks)
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To: Daytyn71
I've got to wonder about the brains of the gubmint FEMA geniuses putting what appears to be career welfare cases in a posh hotel near a major international airport.

It would seem that suitable accomodations could be had at some local motel in, say, Lovelock, Nevada for $20 a night when contracted by the month.

Even supposing these people have ties to NYC, there ought to be suitable housing in some neighborhood in, say, Bronx near a subway stop.

14 posted on 04/05/2006 9:16:19 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Any bets that Charles Ebans has not even LOOKED for a job in the last six months?
He could move back to New Orleans, lots of work cleaning up debris and rebuilding. But then he would have to actually go outside and work!
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With all the illegals going there to work for $16.00 an hour (paid by FEMA believe it or not)....this is work he and our countries poor won't do....

The key word is WORK.


15 posted on 04/05/2006 9:17:34 AM PDT by MadeInAmerica ( - Tested in the Middle East)
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To: Daytyn71

Heck, I'll take $2500 to not make a derogatory remark about these leeches.

16 posted on 04/05/2006 9:18:00 AM PDT by Fintan (Did you really think I could post such insightful replies if I actually read the article???)
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To: JFC

Your opinion is right on the money. What you are witnessing are the scum and vermin that are Ray Nagin's NOLA legions. Thousands and thousands of hard working Blacks will never go back to NOLA. They are remaking their lives at places all across the country. Many have learned that their so-called current Black leadership and the Democrat "Slavery/Welfare" Party have failed them miserably. Com'n, what person in their right mind would follow Cynthia McKinney, John Conyers, Maxine Waters, Ray "moron" Nagin, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, etc. American Blacks gotta wake up and dump this vermin or they will go nowhere fast. That is the "real" world!!!


17 posted on 04/05/2006 9:19:21 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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The Radisson has collected millions of dollars from Katrina survivors

Ummm . . . doesn't he mean 'from American taxpayers?'

I think the Radisson would have to renovate anyway after they vacated the rooms.
18 posted on 04/05/2006 9:19:31 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
"Any bets that Charles Ebans has not even LOOKED for a job in the last six months?"

I'm sure he wants to work, but is prevented as a result of his "disability."

19 posted on 04/05/2006 9:19:39 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Daytyn71

Probably they put therse people in this facility because they intended to renovate it. That way they could eat the damage they did to the property.


20 posted on 04/05/2006 9:21:04 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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