I know the most of the posts here are dealing with the fact that the police are taking away guns from law-abiding citizens, leaving only the criminals armed...exactly what our founding fathers enacted the constitution to forbid from happening, but I'd like to take issue with the Slimes on two points.
1. "hired by wealthy citizens" - At $15 or $20 an hour any family with insurance and savings could afford to hire a gaurd to protect their property. Is it possible that three middle class families banded together to hire a single gaurd? Why use the word "wealthy"? What is wealthy? Is there a cutoff? According to DEms it's like $70K. The Slimes again making the income earners the evil bad guys because they hired someone to protect their assets. Million bucks says there are gaurds at the front door of the Slimes even when there aren't looters running wild. It's okay for them to protect their assets and their personnel, but not the evil people in NOLA.
2. "Nearly Two Weeks after..." I've seen this going on throughout the media throughout this event. People stretching the timeline. First is was adding a day to the truth, now they're adding almost a week. The flood waters in NOLA came in on Tuesday. This story was written and filed on Wednesday for publication on Thursday. So exactly one week, plus one day. Does that equal "nearly two weeks"? No.
Hey slimes writers...how many times a day does the earth rotate in your world?
The reality is, they know the pros won't give them up. So they don't dare try it on them.
They may have savings, but they have recently become unemployed and more than likely will stay that way for a long, long while unless they move someplace else. As for insurance, if you mean homeowners, they have no flood coverage. If they bought flood insurance, until I had the check in my hand from the feds, I sure would not spend any of it. The feds are going to be pressured to make all the people who couldn't afford or didn't buy any some sort of settlement too. With the initial payment of $ 2000 in a debit card to everybody, I will not be surprised if everybody ends up with some sort of "equal" settlement. Sooner or later there will be pressure to stop handing out $ like water after the first few hundred billion and if you haven't gotten yours before that, you probably won't.
Time for everyone to hire their neighbor to guard their house, imo.
Payment? Exchange of services.
I think it's something like... 666 times.