Posted on 09/02/2005 12:50:00 PM PDT by stan_25
In the middest of the chaos and despair, that is in the City of New Orleans, there have been people waiting for at least three days for food and water. The media has been squawking the loudest about the slowness of the food convoys. When a truckload of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) finally arrived in to help feed the masses, that have not had any food or water; you would think that these people would be grateful.
That seems to be not the case in the eyes of some people. Yes, that is right, there are some people that have refused to have anything to do with the MREs. A case in point, a woman that was hollering the loudest about not having anything to eat, was handed an MRE and refused it. The reason? It had not been heated.
Well sister, I hope that you can live for a few more days. It is going to quite awhile before there is any way to serve up any hot meals. The only way that there might be any hot food, is if you build a campfire and cook food that way. I doubt that you would be able to find any food to cook over a campfire anyway, as the government won’t there to hand out the food to cook or to make the fire for you.
If our troops in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan can gain weight by eating MREs, surely you can subsist on these for a few days. The same troops that are subsisting on these MREs and have been for the last 2.5 years, seem to take it all in stride as a part of doing business.
I saw a lot of humans in that town that could stand to fast for a few more days at least!
I think you would be right on with this assessment.
"Ungrateful" - are you for real, or just a bit dim? This is not a term anyone with an ounce of compassion would use to describe someone stranded in New Orleans right now. Shame on you."
Apparently you have not been watching some of these people being interviewed!
Those babies are too cute!
when she gets hungry enough....she'll eat it.
Makes me want to slap some people!
> A case in point, a woman that was hollering the loudest
> about not having anything to eat, was handed an MRE and
> refused it. The reason? It had not been heated.
It's all about human dignity, and respect. Just because she's a refugee doesn't mean she shouldn't be treated with RESPECT.
...Now shut up, get your butt in gear, and bring me some HOT STEAK, peon!!
The people screaming the loudest are the same people who believe that government owes them something. They believe they're entitled to something. Granted this is a human tragedy of epic preportions, but you'd think those who are effected the most would appreciate what is being done for them. And what is being done for the people most effected by the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, is everything that is humanly possible.
Yup...as one of my friends used to say "You'd eat the a-hole out of a dead skunk if you get hungry enough!"
Could the MRE fail to mee the standards of those who've enjoyed Cajun cooking?
"I saw her interviewed on Bill O'Reilly last night. I would have sworn she was over medicated, 'or something'."
I don't believe that for a minute. She was just a complaining, ungrateful b*tch! One of those type of people who thinks that everyone owes her! There are dead and dying, those with no roof over their head, or who are sitting ON their roof, and she's complaining that no one served her a hot meal since she got there! Ungrateful!
This typifies the mentality cultivated by liberalism for 50 years: you are entitled to have your wants and needs fulfilled by the government to the extent that the government must do it exactly to your satisfaction or you'll hearing from the ACLU or Legal Services. Damn the taxpayers, full speed ahead.
Oh, how it makes me cry for the legacy of self-reliance that made this country so great.
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