Posted on 09/08/2005 1:55:51 PM PDT by NormB
Edited on 09/08/2005 2:07:09 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Hundreds of survivors of Hurricane Katrina lined up Thursday outside the Reliant Center in Houston in hopes of getting $2,000 government debit cards, but there's confusion about who can get the cards and when.
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Well, It's been a shock but, sounds like it is a good idea to get them a start. Just so long as the people who Evacuated get the same help!
Thank you for that info
Seems the press is failing to report on the whole story
We keep having reports that folks are coming our way to Nebraska but they somebody must tell them what snow is...LOL
This debit card is incredibly unfair - to the ones who heeded the early warnings.
A few thoughts -
1. will they allow those evacuated via their cars, i.e. white rich anglo honkies, to also get a card?
2. Bush is now trying to buy his way into the dem's good graces. Now they think if they give away enough of your money, maybe this PR nightmare brought on by corrupt LA politicians and the media will go away.
3. If there was a terrorist attack in the coming days Bush would be blamed. Why? Because he didn't sign on to the Kyoto protocol which allowed global warming to create the hurricane and the nation was distracted from terrorism because of all the suffering in N.O. caused because Bush put troops and money into the occupation of Iraq. ;-) Are you with me so far?
I was at the Astrodome this morning volunteering. There were two huge lines, one was for the Red Cross debit cards Every free-loader in Houston drove to the dome in hopes of getting one along with the legitimate evacuees. The other line was for the free airline tickets that Continental airlines is giving to anyone willing to take them.
None of that surprised me. What did surprise me was one of the announcements made while I was in the dome. The announcer said they had a number of "luxury" furnished apartments available in the Palm Beach, Florida area (with free transportation) available for anyone willing to relocate. I was tempted to rip off my volunteer wristband and get in line myself.
Liberals think if they had the money for gas to evacuate on their own, they must be rich.
I think with all the hurricane activity lately, I'd wait for an offer a little more inland.
Yeah, So?
I heard the apartment owners' representative speaking on South Florida radio this week. She was telling other apartment owners in Florida how to get in touch with her so they could form a group of people who wanted to offer their vacant apartments to storm victims TEMPORARILY. It's a PRIVATE sector donation.
Maybe they will even get a big tax write off for doing it, so it might even BENEFIT them which would be government charity in a way.
If the cards can be transfered for cash (at a small loss of course), they will, and the cash will be spent on cheap bum wine, smokes, and of course, crack. If there is any left over, a cheap trick as well.
I just heard a great soundbite on Tulsa news TV tonight. An older black man, who had fled the storm early and came to his brother's house in Tulsa. Through some clever networking, the man found a job within two days, and began working. Here's the money-line: "It's good to be working, to be somewhat independent, you know. Not to be, you know, (he pauses briefly to find the right word) a liability."
NOT TO BE A LIABILITY. What a man. What an American. I wish he were contagious.
WHy so stingy?
Monday-Tuesday: Grace period for settlers to leave Gaza voluntarily.
Wednesday: Israel begins forcible evacuation for those Gaza Settlers who refuse to leave.
September: Four settlements in the West Bank are expected to be removed Sept. 1-7. After the evacuation, troops will demolish settlers' homes over a two- to three-week period. During this time, the Israeli military will be completing its own pullout from the Gaza Strip.
October: Palestinians are expected to assume control of the settler areas.
What settlers, businesses receive Under a compensation program, settlers will receive between $200,000 and $450,000 per household.
After Hurricane Andrew, FEMA mailed thousands of dollars in the forms of disaster relief checks to many people in South Florida who were uninsured, but the Katrina victims don't have access to mailboxes and front porches anymore, and the banks "aren't working", all because several generations of Republican and Democrat politicians and government agencies spent money on other things like a bridge to an Alaskan island, rather than fixing a levee that not only made it possible for stupid people to move there, but also should have been fixed for transporting 25 million tons of grain and five million tons of steel each year.
I don't know if uninsured people should get handouts in the first place, but its my understanding that the ones who have insurance HAVE TO PAY IT BACK once the insurance kicks in, so in that case, it's fine with me.
I don't know if giving away money is cost effective, but I know Katrina victims need clothes, food, medicine and they don't have JOBS anymore, but most of them want to work. I spent time working in NoLa, I was one of the few white people working in a large black company and dealing with mostly black people, and canvassing black businesses neighborhoods and I don't remember meeting any that were on welfare of the couple thousand that I met.
It was stupid to live in New Orleans in the first place, but I guess Barbara Bush should be real popular right now around FR for talking like they are better off for their suffering.
New Orleans is 3/4 black, and you are all lumping the predominantly law abiding, hard working black people in with some bad apples. Immature racists.
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