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City to open shelter if FEMA asserts hotel deadline
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Posted on 02/05/2006 11:31:40 AM PST by Ellesu
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posted on
02/05/2006 11:31:44 AM PST
by
Ellesu
To: Ellesu
Wonder how many will finally go back to work once the free housing plays out?
To: Ellesu
if the Federal Emergency Management Agency puts out hundredsPuts out??? Those whiners should have been out ages ago. Sitting around hotel rooms living off the taxpayers should have gotten them kicked out on their rears a long time ago. And I'd be writing the newspaper complaining I'd vote for no current city commissioner or mayor if the city continued to house those low lifes.
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posted on
02/05/2006 11:36:39 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: angelsonmyside
If free housing is provided forever, there's little doubt that free housing will be used forever.
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posted on
02/05/2006 11:37:12 AM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Ellesu
It's amazing these people haven't made an effort to find permanent housing after all this time!
To: Ellesu
I don't think it would be right to move people into trailers.
It would violate their Constitutional Right to Room Service.
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:03:32 PM PST
by
Mark was here
(How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
To: Ellesu
It's about time the local govt did something instead of relying on the Feds to babysit them.
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:12:11 PM PST
by
frankjr
To: Ellesu
While I applaud the mayor of Lake Charles for his take-charge, caring actions, the snark in me wants to know:
How have all the evacuees affected the city's finances? I suspect an upsurge in the local economy. I would hate to know that the mayor is just trying to prop up the local economy.
If there are no homes to be had in Lake Charles, surely the evacuees could find housing somewhere else. I can understand them wanting to stay close to home, but having to depend on a govt agency to tell you how long you can stay at a certain place seems rather a)Orwellian or b)Somebody take care of me!
Wanna bet that if the FEMA deadline is imposed and the evacuees have no local choice besides the Civic Center, they'll pick up stakes and move on to the next, better accommodated, city?
When, exactly, did these people give their lives over to the govt? Has it really been 4 months since the hurricanes? Good Gawd, people, either go home or make your own darn home!
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:26:48 PM PST
by
blu
(People, for God's sake, think for yourselves!)
To: Ellesu
While I applaud the mayor of Lake Charles for his take-charge, caring actions, the snark in me wants to know:
How have all the evacuees affected the city's finances? I suspect an upsurge in the local economy. I would hate to know that the mayor is just trying to prop up the local economy.
If there are no homes to be had in Lake Charles, surely the evacuees could find housing somewhere else. I can understand them wanting to stay close to home, but having to depend on a govt agency to tell you how long you can stay at a certain place seems rather a)Orwellian or b)Somebody take care of me!
Wanna bet that if the FEMA deadline is imposed and the evacuees have no local choice besides the Civic Center, they'll pick up stakes and move on to the next, better accommodated, city?
When, exactly, did these people give their lives over to the govt? Has it really been 4 months since the hurricanes? Good Gawd, people, either go home or make your own darn home!
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:26:48 PM PST
by
blu
(People, for God's sake, think for yourselves!)
To: blu
*buurrrp 'Scuse me!
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:28:17 PM PST
by
blu
(People, for God's sake, think for yourselves!)
To: Ellesu
We're STILL paying for these people? When/where does it end?
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:43:21 PM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(I'm not afraid to say out loud what the rest of you are afraid to admit.)
To: Ellesu
I'm sure the "good citizens" that have been hunkered down in hotels for the past several months - have expressed great gratitude for the generosities extended them, and have done everything within their ability to become a little more selfsufficient...
< /sarcasm>
Semper Fi
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:43:45 PM PST
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: mtbopfuyn
But were used to Gov. handouts,we don't want to change.
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posted on
02/05/2006 12:51:13 PM PST
by
Unicorn
(Too many wimps around.)
To: Unicorn
Send in the heliocopters and airlift them out, as we did in September. That worked.
To: Ellesu
Well, at least now the hotel owners can finally start cleaning and repairing their hotels that have no doubt been trashed.
Wonder if the government will pay for that too.
To: Ellesu
They should have been kicked out of those hotels a long time ago.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:12:07 PM PST
by
Ninian Dryhope
("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
To: angelsonmyside
I live here. There is no available housing at the moment. Most of the apartment complexes were severely damaged. It's just taking time to get them finished.
I have family members living with me now who lost their homes. My cousin owns an RV park and let's just say that he is really happy right now because he has a waiting list of over 100. Several buildings were severely damaged from the storm so he just plowed them down to put more spaces. There's about 200 right now. That's not counting the trailer park he also owns with as many fema trailers as he can legally put there.
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posted on
02/05/2006 9:04:59 PM PST
by
CajunConservative
(Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Jindal.)
To: blu
Most of the people in Lake Charles are tax paying contributing members of society. It's not New Orleans. Randy Roach is an excellent leader and has done a phenomenal job before, during and after Rita.
Lake Charles had a rainy day fund from the gambling industry that has allowed them to stay solvent even with the huge hit in the economy. We are not completely recovered. We are well on our way but the lack of housing is the critical kink in people getting back on track.
My neighbor had to bulldoze his house. He's not alone.
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posted on
02/05/2006 9:21:35 PM PST
by
CajunConservative
(Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Jindal.)
To: mtbopfuyn
Lake Charles is not New Orleans. Most of the people here are hardworking, tax paying, conservative people. The problem is that a major metropolitan area was severely damaged from Katrina then three weeks later another highly populated area was severely damaged from Rita and there is simply a severe housing shortage.
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posted on
02/05/2006 9:24:44 PM PST
by
CajunConservative
(Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Jindal.)
To: CajunConservative
The problem is that a major metropolitan area was severely damaged from Katrina then three weeks later another highly populated area was severely damaged from Rita and there is simply a severe housing shortage. It's a failure of imagination. Frankly, their imaginations are simply overwhelmed.
The only thing they have to compare it to is tornadoes, or (for an imaginative few) maybe the hurricanes that hit Florida and tear up a lot of roofs.
One of the things I found most gratifying about Katrina was that the news personalities from Fox who actually went there, got it. You could see it in their faces.
From that, I infer that most decent people, if they were actually confronted with the facts, would get it, too.
What we have here, on the attack, are the outliers, mostly, the antisocial and the sociopaths who use the Internet as a way of channeling their vitriol. Most Freepers aren't like that, but they don't like to confront the loonies so they just get out of the way.
Fascinating.
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posted on
02/06/2006 3:06:06 AM PST
by
CobaltBlue
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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