Posted on 04/25/2006 7:13:39 AM PDT by Ellesu
It appears that some people simply PREFER living off handouts.
We should have pushed more people to live with family -- trailer park concentration camps are not really a good idea.
It makes me suspicious, though, about the lady not having even checked with her landlord about her old place. I wonder if she was late a few months with the rent when the hurricane came.
It appears that since the Hurricane, the residents of this VIllage are sitting there without trying to find alternative solutions for their own living arrangements. They want to stay there without even calling their old landlord to see if the rent really did go up. Even if they cannot go back, what steps are they taking to find permanent living quarters.
The dirty little secret is that these peopel want to live off the government, and in all the time they have been their, they have not taken action to help themselves.
Can you imagine what a nightmare gubbmint healthcare rationing would be like?
"It appears that some people simply PREFER living off handouts."
I'm thinkin' that the woman she interviewed has never had a job, her momma never had a job and most of the people she knows don't have a job. The problem started with the Great Society and we created it ourselves. It's kind of like raising a pet and then taking it out to the woods and dumping it and expecting it to know how to survive. She has no clue about what to do.
Well, that made me sick. Victimhood is alive and well and the media is just feeding off of it. I may have missed it but I didn't see anything in this interview about this woman having, or trying to get a j-o-b. Now there's a concept.
And that's the thing. We don't have cable. You can’t have cable, you can’t have a regular telephone. There’s nothing to do out here. That's why children are getting in trouble. There's nothing to do.
No cable, no peace.
Cordially,
They're resourceful enough to get their food stamps and other govt. benefits.
Really though, if the place smells bad, the food is awful, and the benefits are dwindling, shouldn't that be the motivation to start over.
It's hard to imagine a company that needs help turning down an evacuee who wants to work.
Welfare creates the disease it is meant to cure – shiftless, lazy, ignorant people.
Well golly gee whiz!
I had no idea that New Orleans was Eden like prior to Katrina.
Just yesterday, the wife and I pressure washed about 10,000 cocoons from the outside of our house, along with unsightly mold that grows on the eaves and soffits.
Evidently we have pissed off Mother Nature, as we find we must do this every year at about this time.
The FEMA park is a lot like living with Presstitutes. It has an odor and there is trash around everywhere.
Or maybe some cooperative effort from the residents. Clean the place up, pool resources and food (surely SOMEONE there knows how to cook), rotating babysitting schedules so parents can get stuff done.
Nahhh...never happen.
never asked her about a job? She is a typical LIB waiting in line for a handout!
You are so right!
Something not pointed out in the article is that while rents have risen, so has pay. My daughter and son-in-law live in New Orleans. Their rent in the Garden District went from $500 per month to $1,600 per month and he had to pay that in order to keep the duplex even while they could not return to New Orleans.The duplex where they live did not suffer any damage but FEMA kept trying to give him a trailer while he was living and going to school here in Texas last fall.
She started to work in January after their wedding and is making just over $30.00 per hour. He is a law student and is making around $25.00 per hour at his summer job.
They just purchased a shotgun house 3 blocks from where they are renting that had no damage other than losing a shutter off the side of the house. They plan to live there for the remaining time he is in law school and hopefully turn a profit when they sell this home.
Restaurants are paying a minimum of twice($10-$20/hour) what they did before the hurricane with a $6,000 bonus if you stay a full year.
If you want to work, there's work to be had in New Orleans and if you do relief work, you get a tax credit on your federal income taxes.
It's time for these folks to start thinking about what they are going to do, whether it is returning to New Orleans or moving on to something else. They cannot be allowed to remain in the care of FEMA and the taxpayer indefinitely. I live on the gulf coast in Texas. You haven't seen this sort of thing from Texas, Mississippi & Alabama. They can't be victims for the rest of their lives.
There are no places to rent. The out-of-town contractors have taken them all up at exhorbant rates and understandably so. Contractors have been paying up to $1000/week per employee to stay in hotels.
My girlfriend lived in a $400/month houseboat that was torn up. (300 square feet) While waiting for the landlord to make repairs, a contractor came up and offered him $1000/month. I couldn't have expected him, on a fixed income, to turn it down.
I have an out-of-state inspector over here (Pascagoula) helping me since mid-September. He has been staying in my backyard in a small trailer. He finally found, just last week, a small old wood-framed house in Alabama to stay in for $700/month. He got lucky.
As for pushing to get people to live with family, for the most part any family dwellings that are livable are packed to the gills with family members.
Almost every business on the gulf coast has "Now Hiring" signs in front. The problem is that someone would have to set up a daily bus line to bus folks in to work every day and that just hasn't been done.
"Hey Greyhound, here's a business opportunity for ya!"
With that I agree 100%!
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