[Daytyn71]

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?

[billorites]

"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.

[JFC]

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

[ziggy_dlo]

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.

[Robe]

"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"

[AD from SpringBay]

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

[MadeInAmerica]

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

[Vigilanteman]

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.

[Fintan]

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

[rightwingintelligentsia]

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.

[RobbyS]

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.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I had a client many years ago that rented several apartments to low income tenants. Whenever he needed to evict a tenant for failure to pay rent, he showed up at their door, gave them 1/2 of a $100 bill and promised to give them the other half and waive the unpaid rent if they moved out within 3 days and did not trash the place. He said they nearly always moved out.

It galled him to pay deadbeats to move, but he figured it saved him the cost of going to court to evict them and the cost of repairs after evicted tenants would inevitably trash the place.

It sounds like this hotel has adopted the same strategy adjusted for inflation.

[BlueStateDepression]

"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.

Yup, back on track all right. My family of five lives on 24 thousand dollars a year without public housing ( I own a nice house in rural central Illinois) without public food subsidy. It was not always like this for us but a drunk driver changed this family in ways not appropriate for this thread.

I only share this because I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE WHINING done by these folks. I reject the notion that they cannot support themselves. My family is evidence that when you put your priorities in line you can make it. Yes our life is simple. Yes we make great sacrifice for our kids. Yes we live within our means.

To say it cannot be done is simply a LIE and I for one am absolutely sick of it. These folks have had more money put out for them than this family gains thru employment in the last year.

Cry me a friggin river, it's time these folks learn that when you are responsible for your own destiny it is amazing how far you can make a dollar go! The best way to do that is just like getting into a cold swimming pool. JUMP right on in and forge ahead from there. It is time to tell these folks to get off their butts and get down to the business of providing for themselves.

[Pessimist]

"Hopefully I can move on and get some public housing.."

Note: Public housing is actually the goal.

That shows how engrained it is w/ these people.

[Kozak]

I understand that a business has to make a profit, however this is just vulgar, this is greed,” said attorney Ashwani Prabhakar.

Of course this shyster will expect to get promptly... or else.

[kittymyrib]

The drug dealers and pimps will be waiting for these bums the minute they hit the streets with their $2,500, just like when the Katrina scum got FIMA's $2000 Visa cards. Wonder if the renovation was planned before the Katrina crowd moved in, or if it's become necessary because they trashed the place.
What this experience has taught the well-meaning folk who tried to help is that next time, they will be like the Gretna, LA police who blocked the bridge and wouldn't let the NO scum come into their town on the other side. They knew what the welfare crowd from NO was like. And now the rest of us do, too.

[ladyjane]

WHY are these people still being called evacuees?

Most of these jokers never evacuated when they were told to.

The term 'lazy whiners' is more appropriate.

[DustyMoment]

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.

Ground Control to Major Tom . . . . .

Are these people for real!!?? Whay are they offering to PAY DEADBEATS to get the h*ll out of their hotel?? Boot their lazy butts out and be done with it.

For crying out loud, has America been taken over by terrified wusses??

[wbill]

My 2c....

I was commuting up to NYC for quite awhile back before Katrina. This hotel was the only one that consistently had rooms available - during the XMas holidays, in the middle of a snowstorm, whatever.

I never stayed there because it was really inconvenient for me to get back and forth to the city....but I always wondered what was wrong with it. Was it the location, or something else?

[Gritty]

These people are in New York!??

Why aren't these deadbeats living back in New Orleans, where there are jobs aplenty and mountains of work begging for workers? Howcum all those jobs and all that "free" reconstruction money is being soaked up by illegal aliens? Don't these people know all they need to do is show up and earn a fat paycheck? Oh, wait a minute, I forgot. These people don't actually work for a living, they just exist off the government teat (i.e. us) and their corner drug deals and make the rest of us work for a living to support their lazy a$$es!

Maybe we should send these slugs to Mexico and keep a like number of illegal aliens as replacements? I think it would be a better trade.

Arlen? John? Teddy? Jorge?...