It's been OVER a year and Katrina 'victims' still say they need their aid in order to find a job and get on with their lives.
Chances are these people were on the take BEFORE the storm and are now just being watched closer and their benefits will end because of the closer scrutiny.
2006-12-02 09:55:51 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I work on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and I say no!!! There has been enough funding, aid, and time for people to get back "in the swing of things"!!! I can tell you from experience that there are help wanted sign from New Orleans to Ocean Springs and the pay is at a good rate!!!! But with all of the hurricane aid, many people have refused to go back to work!!!!
2006-12-02 10:02:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Not one person here knows just who got what. But as a start many Katrina victims have not received any aid. They didn't get the original 2,000 dollars because FEMA ran out of money.We're talking about hundreds of thousands of people,many of whom have gone on with their lives despite the struggle. FEMA's contributions were not the amounts received by, say victims families from 911. Those people received millions. Katrina victims are STILL fighting for insurance coverage monies.People should not be so judgemental. What goes around comes around.
In fact we've all seen some awfully strange weather patterns. NO ONE HERE knows when your town, community, city, etc. will face a disaster. NONE of you. And few would be willing to wait near as long as some of those Katrina victims.
Don't rest so complacently. One never knows when we all may be faced with disaster.
2006-12-02 10:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
No they should not still get aid. They have had over a year that is sufficient time to pull themsevles up by their boot straps and make something of their lives. I am sick of them whining about needing help and what they went through. Horrible stuff happens every day, what do you expect when you live in a city that is below sea level where they have been predicting the big one since the city was built anyway?
2006-12-02 10:47:18 · answer #3 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
properly, first in the past Katrina hit - some years in the past - they began subsidizing the "sufferers" with welfare funds. Then after Katrina, they poured extra tax funds in that dam swamp than Katrina poured water on it. they could have basically bulldozed the entire damn place. putting a city in a community under sea point on the fringe of the sea isn't purely stupid, it quite is criminal.
2016-10-17 15:11:11 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of the problem is that a number of these people had their homes destroyed and insurance companies like State Farm refused to cover the damage because they said they didn't have hurricane insurance. And the bullshit part of this is that State Farm has already refused to SELL hurricane insurance in New Orleans because of the high risk of hurricanes.
I can see some of these people still wanting help. As long as we make sure that aid is being given to the people that weren't allowed to provide for themselves.
2006-12-02 09:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by bennyjoe81 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think that they need it any longer, but the problem is...even if you take them off of THAT aid, they will get on SOME OTHER aid. So, where do we want to pay for it? I like the idea of helping those who help themselves. If you are working to rebuild your home, you should get some help. Many of these people are skilled laborers who could fix their house cheaper than they could going out and getting a job and using that money to pay someone else to rebuild it. In cases like those, they should be able to get by while helping themselves. Mainly in these situations, I'm hesitant to say "yes cut them off...even the children". Also, if you want the aid, you need to live in New Orleans. If you live somewhere else (like most of the evacuees do) you no longer qualify.
2006-12-02 10:10:48 · answer #6 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1st, they knew the dangers of new Orleans long before Katrina, so I feel they had ample time to move or what ever they needed to do a long time ago unless they are just plain stupid, and in most cases it is not stupidity it is knowing the system and riding it generation after generation, so I think it is time for the gov, to get off of our backs and taking our hard earned money and giving to these worthless scumbags,and the same for the ones who build in areas where it is a known danger, why the hell are we required to pay for their rebuilding, no one has gave me anything, every thing I got was what i had earned BY WORKING,
2006-12-02 10:08:54 · answer #7 · answered by jim ex marine offi, 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, the full news story is that our court systems ruled that FEMA botched their job and now need to do it right. That sounds more like accountability to me.
Here's a choice quote from the article:
"U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon's ruling Wednesday criticized FEMA for cutting housing funding and subjecting victims of the 2005 storm to a convoluted application process he called 'Kafkaesque.'"
2006-12-02 10:06:52 · answer #8 · answered by Gerty 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Seeing as a lot of Katrina victims have gotten back on their feet, i would want a deeper inspection as to why they need aid before they receive it.
2006-12-02 09:58:35 · answer #9 · answered by smartass 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The promised aid from the government is very slow in trickling down to the people. So, in reality, many didn't receive the original aid they were promised. The money is all tied up in bureaucratic redtape, as usual.
2006-12-02 09:59:27 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋