Why is it that alot of Katrina evacuees are unprepared with the eventual withdrawl of financial support 1 year after Hurricane Katrina? Its funny that now america is faced with the 'whoa is me' attitude once the money dries up. Especially once it was discoved alot of the FEMA debit card funds issued were used to buy jewelry, vacations and visits to 900 phone sex calls. And speaking of the FEMA debit cards...how could this government allow thousands of incarcerated inmates to claim funds as katrina survivors while they were incarcerated during the time of the storm??!! I hope the government along with the public learns a big lesson in the aftermath of this tragedy. How embarrassing it is to be an American now a days.
2006-06-29 08:02:47 · 6 answers · asked by snookums2006 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Coming from Florida, I hereby tell you and all those like you to shove your critical statements up your rear end. People are not always at their best when everything they've ever had... their homes... there loved ones... there god damn family dog is buried under ten feet of water, muck and sewage. When you're left on top of your rooftop for a week. When your home town turns into a war zone. When you and whats left of your family is crammed into a stadium and left without food or water for days. When your child is ripped from your arms and sent five states away, and it's six or seven months before you find them again.
...When this happens to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE...
I'll be more than happy to pay for your god damn 900 phone sex calls for a while. If that's what you want, you got it.
But as an American who is not embarrassed, I refuse to stand by and let you BLAME THE VICTIMS.
2006-06-29 08:12:42 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Red 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The sad part is most of the money that went out was fraud. I don't understand how over a billion dollars was sent out to people that
were not victims. Why did they buy all the trailer homes if they were not going to put them in them. You can't tell me they could not find enough land somewhere to put the home and set up housing. No lets pay money to unknown places at $2000 a month.When the hurricane hit I think it was South Carolina they set up trailers, hundreds of them for temporary housing. It worked out very well. The Katrina victims are not to blame. They were not taken care of from the start. They have suffered. A friend of mine was at New Orleans not long ago. There are people with kids still living out of their cars and tents. Homes destroyed and will never be replaced. Our FEMA and Government failed to do their jobs. I don't have faith in them anymore.
2006-06-29 08:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by sandra g 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why didnt fema respond accordingly in the first place.and for you uncompassionate jerks is 2,000 dollars worth losing your home and placed in another strange city or state you never lived in. there is no price on what these people went thru. you are too comfortable in your mansion.
2006-06-29 09:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by david c 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like FEMA really screwed up if its allowing this kind of fraud and abuse to go on. They should fire whoever is in charge of it.
2006-06-29 08:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by Kutekymmee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you're a liberal-yes.
and what about the people in florida? they've been hit alot more times and you don't hear them whining!
2006-06-29 08:06:42 · answer #5 · answered by zoo2626 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
nope, not forever
2006-06-30 10:57:58 · answer #6 · answered by *Tiffani* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋