Surprise, surprise, surprise....

KNYTE said:
Obviously not in New Orleans or working at FEMA.

Good Point!

I see what your saying definately but IMO if the situation were switched to "anywhere" around us it would be the same. Seeing is how we have alot of Atlanta people here I will use that as an example. If the exact situation were to happen to Atlanta I feel that the exact same outcome would be reached. Now that we have seen what didnt work hopefully the idiots try a new approach next time but who knows. Does anyone know how much money was given out in those cash cards total?
 
BeeRad said:
My brother has been trying to get a decent job for i guess its been 2 years now since he moved back up. He has his 4 year degree through UCF and can only get a job as a bartender. He lives in a house with 3 other guys that all have different degrees who all have the same problem. You can find a job but good luck trying to make a career.
I meant low skilled labour: builders, brickies and the like.

The Economist had an article on it a few weeks ago. I'll have a look for it.
 
Drool-Boy said:
I say just bust the levees and let nature take its course.

I was ok with them dying the first time around. It's not as if they didn't have ample opportunity to get out of town before Katrina hit. (this has been discussed numerous times)
 
KNYTE said:
I was ok with them dying the first time around. It's not as if they didn't have ample opportunity to get out of town before Katrina hit. (this has been discussed numerous times)
I think anyone who left their animal(s) behind should be strung up and lynched, proper like
 
This winter, FEMA put up over 300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees in New York City hotels. Almost all of them have gone back to their lives, their jobs. But not Theon Johnson. He’s currently sprawled out watching Halloween 5 on one of the two full-size beds in his room at the JFK Airport Holiday Inn. He is one of four evacuees still living in a hotel in the city.

The others left in February and March, when, after spending more than $500 million, FEMA stopped paying for hotel rooms housing some 40,000 evacuees across the country. That left many scrambling for places to live. But thanks to the city’s squatters-rights law, evacuees here were safe. Their rooms weren’t paid for, but since they’d been in them for more than 30 days, the hotels couldn’t just kick them out. Only a judge’s order could evict them.

And Johnson, 49, isn’t that motivated to leave. For one thing, AMC’s in the middle of its “Thrill Me” marathon. Next up, Gothika. “Halle Berry,” he says with lazy lust. These days he’s usually up all night—it’s hard to sleep on an empty stomach. When he has to, he’ll go outside and beg for change, but he doesn’t really like that too much. Most days he just showers and gets back in bed, showers and gets back in bed. Once a week he and another evacuee, a diabetic named Larry, walk to a church off the Van Wyck and get canned goods. When Johnson’s caseworker, Sharon, comes around, she gives him some bus passes and maybe a few bucks, but she’s getting frustrated. “They sit around on their butts watching TV. There’s only but so much I can do if they’re not willing to help themselves.”

After being flown here for free back in September, Johnson’s been at the Holiday Inn since Super Bowl Sunday. On April 21, the hotel served Johnson with three notices of occupancy termination, saying that it would begin court proceedings if he wasn’t out by May 9. He wasn’t, so it did. If the court boots him, Johnson could end up in one of the city’s homeless shelters. He’s been broke for over a month now. FEMA sent him $9,000 in housing aid, but he spent it all on booze, cigarettes, some clothes, and food—partying, mostly. “I spent my money just the way I wanted, and I think [fema] should send me some more,” he says. But it won’t. Johnson’s caseworker says FEMA offered to buy him a ticket home to New Orleans in February, but he didn’t take it. FEMA won’t now. So he’s stuck, at least until the Holiday Inn pays him to leave.

Attorneys with the Legal Aid Society have been negotiating a buyout deal for Johnson and the remaining evacuees, and expect a settlement—he heard about $1,200—imminently. He says he’ll use the money to get a room for a few nights and have some fun before flying back to his little house in New Orleans’ Third Ward. But for now, Gothika’s on. “Halle Berry,” Johnson says. “Halle . . . Berry.”

http://www.nymetro.com/news/intelligencer/17161/
 
Awesome.

It makes me further wonder why I continue to work at a primarily thankless job from 8-5 everyday when there are apparently free rides to be had out there.
 
Valve1138 said:
None of this shit surprises me.

Some people feel entitled to something for nothing.
What would happen if the country decided to discontinue all public aid, handouts, government sponsored charity, and free rides?
 
zengirl said:
What would happen if the country decided to discontinue all public aid, handouts, government sponsored charity, and free rides?
:lol: Every bleeding-heart-socialist-scumbag would explode.

Not a reflection on you but I could make another topic where poor people were dying because they didnt get money from the government and at least some of ya'll would be saying we need more government aid. It takes a certain mentality to be avowedly against welfare in any form.
 
FlamingGlory said:
:lol: Every bleeding-heart-socialist-scumbag would explode.

Not a reflection on you but I could make another topic where poor people were dying because they didnt get money from the government and at least some of ya'll would be saying we need more government aid. It takes a certain mentality to be avowedly against welfare in any form.

I think the welfare system needs to be much more discriminatory than it currently is.