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To: GovernmentShrinker
Why is it a problem for taxpayers (which these individuals sound like, as opposed to perpetually drunk/high/unemployed elfare addicts) to tow a trailer to a deer lease and LIVE in it (you know, the intended use), or sell it for cash which was likely used towards paying for alternative living quarters or home repairs

You make a lot of allowances for people who trash, misuse, or even sell property paid for by the taxpayers (us)? Surely, if someone illegally sold government property, it must be so they can fix up their house. And since the government mishandled some of these trailers, these people getting the free trailers to live in shouldn't be bound by things such as a contract.

I didn't see your excuse for them trashing the trailers and using them as drug labs, but I'm sure it's someone else's fault. You give these people a lot of credit, even giving them the benefit of the doubt that they are taxpayers. I know what state you live in, the state of denial!
22 posted on 11/02/2006 10:36:15 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression (Dime: a dollar with all the taxes taken out.)
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To: FreedomOfExpression

The people using them as drug labs should be shot. But the people enterprising enough to make some sort of reasonable use of the trailers (including selling for cash) are 1) not likely to be the sort of deadbeats who've been sitting around collecting welfare all their adult lives, 2) already determined by FEMA to have lost their homes and to be entitled to government assistance as a result, and 3) way, way down the list of people I'm annoyed at for how my tax dollars have been used in connection with FEMA trailers.

The problem with government help has always been that government decides what sort of help is needed and spends taxpayer dollars on that, without any regard to whether the sort of help it has decided to hand out bears any relationship to what's needed. My assessment of the people who have towed the trailers to deer leases or sold them for cash is that they have probably made a more accurate determination than FEMA of what sort of help they need, and taken matters into their own hands -- quite likely after seeing media coverage of how FEMA has destroyed tens of thousands of its own brand-new, never-lived-in trailers.

Similarly, Jabbar Gibson did a good thing by stealing the school bus and driving a load of people out of New Orleans, while FEMA/Nagin/Blanco had their collective overpaid heads up their a$$e$ trying to figure out how to get stranded people out of New Orleans. Often the government's plans suck and are more expensive and less effective than illegal measures resorted to by the same people the government has told us it's using our tax dollars to help.


29 posted on 11/02/2006 11:05:49 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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