Ready or Not, Katrina Victims Lose Temporary Housing

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  • Staceb10
    Staceb10 Posts: 675
    4 years is enough time. There was enough fraud and bullshit involved with the people that needed help it was sad and pathetic. I feel sorry for the people who truly needed it and got shafted but its been a long time and they should be able to move on.
  • WaveCameCrashin
    WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
    Staceb10 wrote:
    4 years is enough time. There was enough fraud and bullshit involved with the people that needed help it was sad and pathetic. I feel sorry for the people who truly needed it and got shafted but its been a long time and they should be able to move on.

    + 1
  • WaveCameCrashin
    WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
    I remember watching a DOC. on the Disc. channel and it showed what would happen if a cat. 4 or 5 hit New Orleans. They said the levees would not hold and there would be massive flooding and there would be deaths in the thousands. So it's not like the local and federal govt. didnt know this would happen. IMO there's plenty of blame to go around starting with the Mayor that they Re Elected :?
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    QuarterToTen wrote:

    so it's a good idea to keep throwing millions and millions of federal dollars at people,
    the majority of which are able-bodied and perfectly capable of working, 4 years after the fact?

    not minimizing the initial need for funds by any means, but 4 years is a long time
    to still expect government hand-outs.

    and it certainly doesn't promote much incentive or motivation either.


    true. 4 years is a long time, but its important to remember a lot of these people received no help at all. entire neighborhoods stand empty, still. unsafe broken houses, rotting away.

    the cleanup isn't over, no need to abandon the project altogether just yet.

    and i'm not saying rebuild new orleans completely, it might not be the smartest idea given its location.

    its just that a lot of what should have been done, never was,, and lot that needs to be done hasn't been started yet.
  • Drew263
    Drew263 Birmingham, AL Posts: 602
    Commy wrote:
    New Orleans was predominantly poor/black.

    it was a racist comment.

    Have you ever even been to New Orleans? I was there last weekend and New Years and twice last year, and many, many other times..there are plenty, I mean plenty of caucasian crack heads there. You should visit the city before declaring yourself an expert.

    New Orleans was a shithole before Katrina...full of crime, drugs, and disease. It's not much different now than it was before.
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    Drew263 wrote:
    Commy wrote:
    New Orleans was predominantly poor/black.

    it was a racist comment.

    Have you ever even been to New Orleans? I was there last weekend and New Years and twice last year, and many, many other times..there are plenty, I mean plenty of caucasian crack heads there. You should visit the city before declaring yourself an expert.

    New Orleans was a shithole before Katrina...full of crime, drugs, and disease. It's not much different now than it was before.


    you-a tourist-saw some white people in the tourist sections of new orleans. :o

    I take it all back.



    predominantly black. maybe you should look it up in the dictionary.


    and who cares if they're on drugs. that has absolutely nothing to do with providing aid or not. they needed help, and they never got it.

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