why are we still helping hurricane victims?

Question

I too am a hurricane victim, but hey get over it.get a job and pick yourself back up. I know for a fact there are people still getting their bills paid (rent,uttilities,foodstamps,etc..) It's been over a year now.what do you think?

Answer 1

You have made your opinion clear so I'll make mine clear. Do not base everyone elses life on your own. These people may have suffered more harm than you and mental harm as well. Think of the other victims, and don't compare them to you.

Answer 2

It must be satisfying for you to know that every single one of the hurricane victims have been helped and they are on about their lives...if not entirely as before.

I am happy to here that you recovered, picked yourself up (with little or no aid I am sure) and have resumed your life. Your home was demolised and you rebuilt...right? Did you have insurance, money in the bank, qualify for a low interest loan which you have paid back in full, you and your family had support from your relatives and you are back to driving 2 near new cars...thank heaven for having them covered.

Which hurricane were you a victimm of? How long ago? What was it's force rating;F4....F5 or something less. You were a victim, most of the people without means to drive out of the path of danger are SURVIVORS....not merely victims.

Those that still REQUIRE assistance should receive it. This is after all the USA ... including the coast of Louisiiana. Heck yes I would like to see every person there back on their feet, working and paying taxes...that too is the USA.

Yes, it has been over a year now. Tell me, how long did it take before help was no longer needed after Hurricane Andrew? Or the SF earthquake, or the 1964 Alaskan Earthquake.....or even the recent Northridge quake?

By the way, I was there during the Northridge quake...I didn't live there but I was there. I have also been a "victim" your word, one I choose not to use in 4 tornados in Texas & Oklahoma, hid in the stom celler during tordados as a child on my grandparents farm in Illinois and I have been a "victim" or mortar and rocket attackes and IEDs in Iraq.

Surprised to know I happen to be conservative white male Republican yet have enough passion to not blame people if they need help. But I will be the first one in line to kick some lazy S*B in the A** if all they want is ....everything...without working for it when they are able.

Pardon me if I sound harsh...but after seeing the poverty in the middle-East....I am continually amazed and greateful that we can assist our people when possibe. But don't miss the point...I detest slackers and lazy people unwilling to work.

And yes...I do see and understand your...anger.. that things aren't much better after a year.

Answer 3

oh please.
Most of thsoe people didn't have anywhere to go and left New Orleans with little more than the clothes on their backs. Many never even received the first two thousand dollars. Many had absolutely no where to go. And what do you mean "we" are still helping. "We" who? The bulk of the money Bush allocated went to fat cat contractors who were paying Mexicans and other foreigners less than minimum wage to do cleanup and other mindless jobs.

And you are wrong. You have no idea who are still getting their rents "paid" since many have left New Orleans. So stop patting yourself on the back and making it appear that others are taking advantage of the system. And no, I'm not from New Orleans but I know someone from there who owned his own home and it has taken him all of this time to get just a small amount of the amount of money he was supposed to get from his insurance company. He is STILL working to get the rest. Plus, he had to leave New Orleans before the floodiing. He was lucky enough to find someone who let him stay in their home for four months (he paid all utilities, bought his food, etc. and did some work on the house that was offered to him.) PLUS he worked from his temporary location until he was able to return to New Orleans. While he was displaced he was on the telephone with his insurance company nearly every darn day for those four months,while they screwed around with his very comprehensive flood insurance plan. And now here we are. And he STILL hasn't been paid everthing that is owed to him because the f--- insurance company was trying to lowball hiim. He knows many others in the same boat.
So you have a job. Good. Keep it.
Others don't.
And still others have always paid their way, and ask for nothing except what they are due.
So know what the heck you are talking about before judging others.
and let me advise you of something else. One never knows what is going to happen. Even you, having been through a hurricane or so you say -- well it could happen again, or there could be some other disaster. It takes a while sometimes for people to get back on their feet.
So again, watch what you say and how you judge people.......
some of those people lost everything.
Maybe you didn't have anything in the first place.

Answer 4

You seem to be a victim, doubt, but you seem to be a victim without being a victim. You left the hurricane field, and you were not "in" the hurricane. You had property that was damaged, right? You personally was never a "victim"????

There are some that took great advantage of the givings of organizations, maybe greater than they should have. Go back and find a different way, prove it and take them to court.

And in the mean time we are still helping them in need from Katrina, because they are one of our own. We are the U.S., that's what we do!

Answer 5

Why are you worrying about how long it takes other people to get over the hurricane or whether they are still eligible (for some whatever reason someone decided they're still eligible) for help.

You are obviously quite proud of yourself. Its just unfortunate that you have also appointed yourself judge of others who may have had losses or damage or grief or other setbacks that you don't know about.

I think you should be grateful to have apparently gotten back on your feet by now, be grateful that you have been able to, and don't tarnish the appropriate thankfulness by judging other people or feeling superior to them.

Answer 6

i will start by saying that i have not experienced, nor will i experience, what it is like to try to pull yourself back up after a hurricane. i have worked in social services for 5 years or so and one of the things that i have noticed is that people will let others do for them as long as they keep doing it. there is a large amount of enabling in America. people are weak and we like to coddle them so that they become weaker. we should be doing job training so that the displaced victims can start helping themselves instead of living off others.

Answer 7

How about the people who are on SSI or the elder people who cant work anymore? they put all their lives - time sweat and guts into making a half way decent home and life for their children and here comes Katrina who destroyed their homes and killed their loved ones and Fema didn't give them nota thing thanks to bush,Nagin,Blanco! count your blessings mister and since you have your life back in order -- why not help out some of the needy?

Answer 8

While I'm sure there are unscrupulous people taking advantage of the help, there ARE still people that lost EVERYTHING, but the clothes on their back. If you think that a family of lets suppose 4 can get back to the way things were on barely a living wage, with the lack of affordable housing, that more likely than not they are gonna have to furnish, and clothe, and feed themselves...

Answer 9

to help them get their life back together when you loose everything you will be very upset and it will be hard to get back everything you own so the lifeguard and fema try to help people a little like they provide temporary homes and help with food. I think right now in New Orleans most places are back to normal.

Answer 10

Lets see I loose my $100,000. home because my government choose to blow some levees to destroy New Orleans because they want to turn the area into one big cassino, and the good old government is going to pay my hotel bill for 1-year. Well hell yeah, thats a good deal, now what , now that my home was free and clear, my I just send a bill for a new property worth 100K to FEMA, cause that what it is going to take !