Do you think the displaced people from Katrina are doing enough to help THEMSELVES?

Question

HAMPTON, Va. - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a "quiet riot" among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.

The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots.

"This administration was colorblind in its incompetence," Obama said at a conference of black clergy, "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane.

I WAS in New Orleans in Jan. A city worker told us that 50% of the citizens of New Orleans NEVER have had a job...generational welfare. I think it should stop.

Answer 1

I was talking to a guy who owned a small electronics store. he also owned a house in back of it.
There was a man displaced by hurricane katrina that he was living there government assisted.
When that money ran out the owner let him live there for 2 more months for free, after that he offered to rent to the man if he would pay rent on it.
By the way this was not only a free place to live it was also completely furnished by the owner with furniture and appliances.
When the man didnt pay any rent and the owner told him he would have to leave, the man burned down the owners house.

Answer 2

Well, never having lost everything in life I own in a matter of hours, can't say. Seeing as how the Bush administration was so quick to react with all that help, read FEMA., and those millions in aid money that was offered by other country's he turned down, don't know. The rebuilding of the city is on a par with Iraq, and there are no snipers in New Orleans, no idea.
Of course their are some sorry slobs sitting on their lazy butts not helping themselves, but most folks that were wiped out are working hard at getting their lives back in order. But if they all did ,who would the self righteous have to criticize?

Answer 3

Yes a great number of them are. However, some are still crying about getting kicked out of their free hotel rooms. I know a great many from NO that lost homes and they got back on their feet and moved forward rather than generating conspiracies against the government.
Has anyone got a like to info on Bush's hurricane machine? The ones that have made no progress have done so by choice.

Answer 4

the Bush administration has done a lot more than they deserve. living in Houston I see it first hand. a small number have got back on their feet, working and taking care of themselves but the larger portion hang out around the apartments all day or on the streets doing nothing productive. when they say the checks are going to stop on such and such a date, then about half of them go out trying to find a job. the rest of them start complaining and the government gives in again and extends the assistance. Obama doesn't know squat. almost 2 full years and they're still living on my tax money, trashing my city and robbing and killing my neighbors

Answer 5

Just as much as state farm did when it filed for 2 billion dollars worth of money from the fed .
The people get squat in a disaster .
The only people able to take advantage are those with a special team of lawyers who are paid millions to get that money to the right people . Those who already have tons of money and do not need it .
If you think when you hear that Bush is autherizing billions to be sent to help storm victims what he means is that money is going for roads schools and into the coffers of the politicians bank accounts .

Answer 6

Many are working their rears off trying to start a new life, while there are those that want no more than to live off the government. But those people are few and probably were that way before Katrina.

Answer 7

No come on down here and look at the jobs and what they are paying Too many people are wanting handouts Although Ms did a lot better job than La. in picking themselves up and getting to work after the storm!

Answer 8

Well, nothing like a devastating hurricane and government blunder to solve the welfare problem in a state.

Are you at all concerned about the huge government waste of millions of our tax dollars by the inept handling of this disaster.

You better hope nothing comes your way....

Answer 9

I THINK OPINIONS BASED ON BIASED 'WHITE - WASHED' TV SHOULD STOP.

where did we get the 50% statistic? did a cognitive person actually post that among other true facts?

try coming up in the projects, getting an education where the school can't even afford books. then take that 'education' and try to get a decent job. try to afford car insurance and flood insurance and ya mama's meds, on $7.50 an hour. then turn on your local tv station and watch your neighbors and townsfolk express how you and yours are all lazy and incapable of taking care of yourself in this ABUNDANT country, in which YOU CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANT. learn and accept how the land your great grandfather, and his father before him scraped and saved to buy has been convieniently 'handed' back to the waters or corrupt local govt. find out how the waters we've fished in for generations is polluted by the oil barons who run this govt, so that the catfish might just kill you at supper. find out how our govt justifies drilling 200 miles off our coast, damaging the wetlands that afford us god's own protection against the rising waters. ignore the fact that because they drill 200 miles away, louisiana gets NOTHING of those oil monies, while all the other states in our union get a share of theirs. then go to a website and find out you've been classified as 'better off than before the storm' due to people's charity and welfare. forget the loved ones you watched drown 3 foot below your best efforted reach. forget that all your family pictures are floating to china now... forget that you come from the most influencial culture in our country, birthplace of jazz, blues, jambalaya, lagniappe, southern hospitality, world famous chefs, professor longhair, cobblestone streets.... and try to accept that you are the refuse your own society threw in the garbage. and never, ever, make mention of the fact that your life has been thrown to the dogs for white politicians and their greedy fat wives' next round of diamond rings and flashy cars. when those that spew this ignorance, of black welfare mamas and crack headed young black men as being the norm, when they can relate to the above, then they can judge. till then, may the guilt of their ignorance and racism silence their bigotry, like it's silencing our people now.

Answer 10

All I know is that people had the chance to re-locate with help and find jobs. What can you do with people who won't help themselves? It's sad, but they all had a chance to get out of that miserable place. If they didn't or went back that was their choice. No wonder it's hopeless Obama, and all you could do is support them for the rest of their lives!