Why do you Katrina victims complain so damn much?

Question

The gov't told you to evacuate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't blame bush, blame yourselves!!!!!!! You shouldn't deserve help if you don't leave a place where you have to evacuate!!!

And I'm not racist, one of you called me that.

Once we give them something, they want more, and it never stops. It's like they have worms, but not in their stomach eating food, in their hands eating money.

And what about the people who later got relocated, given Debit like cards, and used them to but ******* alcohol. What about that?

Answer 1

Obviously you have no understanding of compassion of poverty, good for you. Why do people who cannot defend a position always resort to blaming the victims. These Katrina victims are our brothers and sisters, let's live up to our responsibility and take care of them.

Answer 2

Are you complaining about people complaining?

That's funny in an odd sort of way.

I haven't complained yet.
(okay, I've complained a few times because other people complained about us complaining... right.)

I think that some people had all the right in the world to complain, though. There was a man in Bay St. Louis, MS, the local coronor I believe, that offered up his driveway to pile the dead bodies in because the government could just ship ice down to his house as they promised. No, they rotted and created a smell we could just about whiff a town over for several days because Mike effin Brown decided that we didn't need ice to "keep a beer and a Diet Coke cold".

We were told to evacuate, but some of us don't have anywhere to go. Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation in 2000. Louisiana was in the top ten. Others of us had something to protect after hearing reports of looting from the Florida hurricanes. (It turns out that it payed off to stay.)

Some terrible greedy people that ask for money, money, money that are victims from the hurricane are giving the rest of us a bad name. All I expect from the government is for them to provide what they promise to provide. It still looks like a war zone down here, and we're doing all we can to fix it back up, believe it or not.

Answer 3

Pretty harsh statment there box, but I agree to some extent. I grew up in the midwest, and have lived in "Tornado Alley" all my life exept while in the service. I've seen towns wiped from the map in Ks. Have seen floods in Illinois and Iowa. The thing I've noticed in the above mentioned disasters is that the people there didn't wait for the government to help them rebuild. My father-in-law lost his entire corn crop back in the '70s to a tornado, lost the machine shed and some equipment. Only thing he got from the government was a low intrest loan and that had to be paid back.
Let's not forget that New Orleans has been under democratic leadership nearly since the French left as well as the entire state of La. (my mother grew up around Shreveport and family still lives there). From the reports I saw on t.v., there was ample transportation (remember the school buses all lined up)
to get people out. The other thing (and I'm gonna get jumped on for this) but people wouldn't evacuate from the poorer neighborhoods because they hadn't gotten their "checks" yet.
I know that sounds cruel and heartless, but a welfare check ain't worth drowning over is it. And let's not forget about the debit cards that were given out to victims to get the things they needed to get by (food, clothes) instead a large part of them were used for B.S. (tatoos, t.v.s, guns, condoms). When this came out and people still said the government didn't care about the poor from New Orleans my give-a-da@$ got busted. I'm all for giving people a hand when they need help, we all need help sooner or later, but to stand there with there hand out and then waste the monetary help they were given just doesn't seem right to me. You never heard anything about the people from Mississippi or Florida screaming the government don't care, there are people down in Florida who were promised help in 2004 during the hurricanes that still haven't gotten any.
This ordeal can't be put at Bush's feet, the Mayor of New Orleans, The Governor of La. and the Parish board members shoulder the blame for the aftermath. This is what happens when you depend on the government to do for you what you can do for yourselves. The democratic leadership in La. and New Orleans created the dependency on government and the reaped what they've sown.

Answer 4

I do sympathize with their plight , but what amazes me even more is the plain and simple fact that they turned around and re-elected the loser Nagin to be mayor again after he sat on his *** and did nothing with the school buses sitting there idle and empty when he could have used them to get a lot of people out of the way , yes I know he was waiting for that loser governor to authorize their use , if he was at all concerned for anyone other than his own family he'd have moved those buses . The rest are looking for a perpetual handout .

Answer 5

ummm Debra, they weren't just announcing it on radio and television, people were driving around telling people to leave. Do you know for a fact that the people didn't have TV or radio? I find that hard to believe. You make assumptions so that you can blame Bush for everything. I saw you on another question blaming Bush for bombings in Iraq because he has remained friendly with the Saudis, as have all presidents in the recent past before him. Bush didn't cause Katrina, and he allocated billions of dollars to the Katrina victims, some of them who used the government cards to purchase Louis Vuitton purses. People need to take responsibility for their own welfare. The government isn't here to support people for life. They gave them assistance when they needed it, it is now time to start working and supporting themselves. A lot of the victims have moved to other cities. A lot of the Katrina victims have contributed to the growing crime rate in Houston and other cities. You see what happens when Americans step up to help people? They get take advantage of.

Answer 6

There was plenty of warning about the approaching hurricane. People were waiting for their MAYOR to mobilize buses, etc. to move them out and the buses never came. Blame him, if you want to blame anyone.

Still, if I was there and knew it was coming, I think I could have found a way out for my family. I feel bad for all of those who lost their homes or their lives.

Natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes and tsunamis and tornadoes will always have the upper hand. They are fearsome to us because they are unforgiving and remorseless and unbeatable and will always be able to take lives and property.

Answer 7

We had a job fair for the Katrina victims in Texas.

NO ONE SHOWED UP!

Yet, they're screaming for more funds to support them.

Times up.

Answer 8

As someone already said, not all of them could evacuate. Many of them were quite poor.

Having said that, please note that it isn't usually the victims you hear complaining. It's usually someone that had nothing to do with it trying to score political points.

Answer 9

Try losing your home and see what you would do--what if you didn't have a way to leave. The problem is you can't place yourself in that situation because you come from another place. Either help, or get out of the way.

Answer 10

I was in Katrina and lose everything and i never did complain.