Posted on 06/13/2008 12:20:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58
The flood of tear-jerk stories about the displaced Hurricane Katrina survivors continues to wash across America. Save for the occasional report of refugees defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the narrative has been pretty consistent: The victims continue to be victimized by (fill in the blank, usually President Bush because everything is his fault).
Well, a Biloxi, Miss., television station last week asked the question that's been our minds for some time: "What are people who receive FEMA assistance doing to help themselves?" Not much.
A reporter interviewed refugees from Greater New Orleans who have been living in Biloxi hotels, at taxpayers' expense, since their eviction, at taxpayers' expense, from taxpayer-provided trailers. She found most Katrinites lounging around pools or on the beach waiting for their next taxpayer-financed meal (FEMA gives them three squares a day) when they should have been working. One woman complained about being stuck in her free hotel room where she had the air conditioning set at 60. It's too hot to look for work, she whined. "Since the storm, I haven't had any energy or pep to go get a job." Katrina blew in on Aug. 29, 2005.
A few blocks away, a hotel was spending $5,000, not provided by taxpayers, to fix damage caused by unemployed-by-choice Katrinites who ran a meth lab out of their free room.
Americans are caring and generous to a fault. They have great admiration for the hundreds of thousands of Katrina victims who demonstrated their indomitable spirit by rebuilding their homes, cities and lives, even though it means they likely will be victimized again by the next Category 4 hurricane.
But Americans' compassion has limits. Nearly three years out, FEMA continues to put roofs over the heads of 216,554 households in Mississippi alone, at a cost, as of May 30, of $857 million. And Louisiana's numbers dwarf Mississippi's. These freeloaders long ago ceased to be victims, but they will continue to be the government's willing wards as long as FEMA pays their room and board, no questions asked. It's long past time to put the "temporary" back in "temporary housing."
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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I don’t know Looter Guy is doing quite well for himself LOL!
And this is exactly the kind of reason that the more you can take the gubmint out of the welfare business, the better off society is.
The Apostle Paul says, “he who won’t work, shouldn’t eat”. I have great compassion for people who genuinely need help but the government isn’t capable of providing either compassion or true help—they just give handouts to cheats and liars who abuse Americans’ trust.
I find this neither amazing or unexpected. When the teat finally runs dry they will be on every news channel, crying about the cruelty of George Bush and the evil republicans for making them (gasp) work to earn a living. I really believe they think that society “owes” them.
Its freeloaders like these mentioned that make honest people wonder why they work so hard just for GovCo. to snatch it away and hand it to the favored few.
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No pride and a lifestyle provided to them via others working and paying taxes. The US was built on people with pride, to ashamed to take, so they worked very hard to not have stigma attached to them as a ‘drain on society.’
Liberalism, starting with LBJ’s War on Poverty, coupled with unchecked breeding and immigration, take the stigma away from not wanting to survive by one’s own efforts....the full effect of this is hand-out promising (and delivering) politicians that espouse Robin Hood for the ‘Hood...and build up a political power base by using tax money to fund people that refuse to work.
(See Barack Obama, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Maxine Waters, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Lee)
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The idea that thousands of jobs were available just a bus ride or subway ride away and hundreds were available within walking distance just never crossed his mind in all those months.
LOL...the editors have a sense of humor.
I know Obama wouldn't expect this “victim” to actually go out and look for work, but I wonder if he will expect her to turn her thermostat down.
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These same people are complaining because it is taking to long to get NOLA back to the way it was. Yet the employers can’t find enough people to do the work.
These Career Refugees have nothing on the Palstinians.
If it's set on 60, it's probably already down as far as it will go.
Most were welfare-dependents before the hurricane, and they’re welfare-dependents now. This is news? If FEMA cuts them off, they’ll just go back on state or county aid.
This kind of a statement always disgusts me, and there are sooo many things wrong with it... for one, it doesn't speak for me and many others like me.
"Generosity" means that someone willingly, voluntarily, temporarily, helps out another person in need.
Chronic welfare dependents are existing on money stolen (via taxes) from people who stand on their own feet and provide for themselves. We weren't asked to provide the money for welfare voluntarily... the money is forced from us (via taxes). Taxes are never voluntary.
But welfare dependents (and politicians) don't give a rat's @$$ where the money comes from, as long as it keeps on coming.
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