Katrina Kids: Sickest Ever

It is possible to take resposibility for yourself. Just do what you have to do to feed your family. You do not have to stay in a goverment trailer for ever. I grew up in a very poor trailer park in Texas. Sometimes we had no electicity. I had a single Mom who did her best. Stop being vicitims and be a real suvivor.

When are we ever going to stop hearing about Katrina?! I am a "victim" of hurricane Ike, I lost EVERYTHING I own and guess how much money I got from FEMA? None! Guess when my trailer will be here? Never! Am I sitting around whining about how the government isn't taking care of me? Nope. I choose to live on the Gulf Coast, so I choose to take the chance this will happen. My family and I picked up our muddy, nasty, molded belongings, cleaned them up (or threw them out) and took care of it ourselves! If I read one more article about the poor pitiful Katrina people, I am pretty sure I will puke.

What happened in New Orleans was a MAN-MADE disaster unlike hurricanes striking anywhere else along the Altantic or Gulf Coast. The damage to the city happened AFTER the protection levees failed. Hurricanes are a fact of life for those living in the southern states. If you are tired of hurricanes, move. I grew up in Pensacola, FL and experienced Hurricane Ivan and I was living in New Orleans and evacuated for Katrina. Two disaters struck New Orleans in 2005, the hurricane and the Bush Administrations' response. Our government is at fault for housing disaster victims in formaldehyde-ladened trailers that they knew to be dangerous.

I'm SOOO sick of hearing about how Katrina wiped out New Orleans...........IT WAS NOT the hurricane folks, it was the levees that failed!!! I said in those first few days after the flooding it wasnt' gonna be pretty getting the hell hole cleaned up....and guess what folks.........it still is not cleaned up, there is now more crime, more homeless, more of almost everything bad!! As usual, the children suffer because of the parents lack of concern or could it be they are seeing this as yet another "free ride", have a child that is disabled because of something the government did......we will pay and pay and pay and pay!!! I still go to the area, but I stay out of the New Orleans area, not worth risking my life to enjoy the quarter like I use to!

It is quite crazy how our government can decide who gets the bail out with our tax dollars, we have folks mostly children living in crap holes all across the Nation, but some how that doesn't matter. Maybe if they were about to loose their personal Jet, then maybe just maybe they can receive the help they need. Yes we all make bad choices, but the super rich seems to get the help they need when they fall down, what about everyone else. I am tired of my tax dollars being sent to folks who were living above their means in the first place. I don't care nothing about poor little ceo GM, you don't solve our problems by started with the top, you must start with the bottom, until then our economy is going to suck. What's the point of saving GM/Citi if you don't have any one buying their products? talk about waste, hmm billions of dollars filling up the landfills.

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH KATRINA. THOSE KIDS HAVE PARENTS AND THOSE PARENTS ARE THE FIRST LINE OF RESPONSIBILITY. IF THEY DON'T SEEK OUT HELP FOR THEIR CHILDREN HOW CAN THEY BE HELPED. TOO MANY PEOPLE SIT AROUND WAITING FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO COME TO THEIR AID. I HAVE RELATIVES WHO WENT TO HELP CLEAN UP AFTER KATRINA AND TOO MANY PEOPLE WOULD STEP OUTSIDE AND TELL THEM WHAT WAS TO BE DONE AND THEN STEP BACK INSIDE NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN AND WITHOUT A WORD OF THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO COME. WHERE WERE THEY WHEN THEIR NEIGHBORS IN TEXAS WERE HIT? PROBABLY OUT USING UP THE BALANCES OF THEIR FEMA CARDS AT STRIP JOINTS AND BARS. IT IS TIME TO GET UP OFF OF YOUR BRAINS AND START HELPING YOURSELVES.

If you think those people need anything your crazy I 'm from Texas and we all know my state stepped up like no other in the aftermath of Katrina and boy did we ever get screwed. Texas is known for its hospitality after Katrina hit we were opening the Dome and many of our personal homes to help. Texans w/ boats headed to LA to help the ones left stranded, then when Rita hit Texas we made sure all of ours guest from LA were evacuated something their governor couldn't do for them when Katrina hit. Well that was 3yrs ago and Texas has yet to be reimbursed, When Rita hit once again all eyes were on LA well guys I had to tell ya'll but Rita tore up Texas worse than LA , but once again it was all about LA . I don't know if anyone remembers but on Sept. 12-13 Texas got hit by Ike a category 2 hurricane, BUT A STORM SURGE OF A CATEGORY 4. Not on inch of the Texas coastline was not affected from Brownsville to LA state line our beaches our gone. In
Chambers County we lost many homes to the storm surege and our fresh water wetlands were destroyed just as the migoratory birds were flying through as they do every year. Chambers Co. is also the place where the debri from Bolivar Pennisula, Crystal Beach and Gilchrist landed, folks we are talking about miles and miles of debri in our marshland. Due do the location and the fact that there still might be bodies in the debri clean-up has been slow going from reading the paper the feds won't let Judge Jimmy Sylvia run things the way he can but they are also telling us that FEMA will not pay for any of the debri yet they are paying to clean up the Bolivar, Gilchrist, and Crystal Beach. Guys that 's not going to cost very much because everything is in CHAMBERS COUNTY. Let's not forget Bridge City, Tx ever heard of it well it's not there anymore I guess we would have heard about if it was housing Katrina refugees and not just hard-working blue-collar Texans. So Mary Carmicheal I challenge you to write an investigative report on the difference in the amount of handouts given to Katrina victims, Tx Rita victims and the Texas Ike victims the results will make you the sickest.
God and Texas

Here it is again, so as not to cause any more confusion....


Posted By: Houston_Girl_Now @ 11/25/2008 11:13:00 AM
Comment: I should have said Mayor, not Govenor. Ray Nagin, enough said.

Donna:
It's not the traditionally poor we are talking about here. It's the irresponsibly poor.
Yes, lots of poor people hit hard times, but tradiitonally poor find ways out of hard times. They recover, they move on. They get another job when the job market gets better.

I've worked and volunteered in poor communites, and I'm telling you, enough of them are there because they don't want to get out. It's a poverty trap, because if they worked, they would earn less than if they stayed on wel-fare.

Of course, then you say, isn't that a shame. Well, how about if wel-fare had a tangent that governed how much care they recieved. Then if they get a job, they would, at worst, earn a bit more. It's a poverty trap. Why work when you get the scraps for free?

I have family like this. I have friends like this. I've been to the ghettos and seen it. I've lived across the street from it for portions of my life. The irresponsibly poor, which form a high percent of the poor in America put themselves in poverty, and there is no sympathy for these people because they waste the sympathy handed to them.

Now, my grandmother is traditionally poor. My friends from college are traditionally poor (they work sometimes two or three jobs to fund college.... one had to get a finger reattached because he cut it off in a printing press). Most often, these people fix their own problems.

I'm not saying traditionally poor are more deserving or less deserving of help. I'm saying

YOU HAVE TO HELP IRRESPONSIBLY POOR IN A DIFFERENT MANNER THAN TRADITIONALLY POOR.

Give handouts to traditionally poor until they get back on their feet. Give jobs to irresponsibly poor or use jailtime until they motivate themselves.

LSU Girl. Why is does this have to be a war of words. This is why the country fails, people will rip apart each other when they do not even know who they are speaking to.
I posted a clarification, however this system has not posted the comment yet. PATIENCE. This country does not have enough. And yes, although the name was wrong, I PERSONALLY knew people who attempted to redeem this "joke". I live here, I have lived there. I speak only the truth, but it seems that even that is enough to get disrespected for. I did not personally attack anyone, I only said if you want TRUE change in your life, don't wait for it. Go get it yourself.

Morgann, I agree with you in theory, but in reality there are so many people who, for whatever reason, were not brought up to take pride in themselves and their abilities to survive. Many of these people end up impoverished and in situations like many of these Katrina victims were/are. Should we just let them die and do nothing? Or do we continually "bail them out"? It is a fine line, but in the instance of Katrina, where these people had nothing to do with the fact that a hurricane destroyed their lives, I believe the right thing to do is help them. How long that help should/should not go on, though, is another fine line.

Just a correction to Houston_Girl, Ray Nagin-Mayor of New Orleans offered the discounted hotel rates as a joke. NOT Bobby Jindal. Please have your facts correct before slandering someone that you know little or nothing about...........

dress, i will rent a place from you on mars if you build it!!!!!

Geez, when did the nation become permanently responsible for the residents of New Orleans? Did it occur to anyone that maybe not so many people want to live in such a hell hole (under sea level too) and maybe rebuilding is a pointless excercise? I like the part about extending funding through mid 2010 will require "only the stroke of a pen" from the new administration. This reporter must have uncovered a money making machine in one of Obama's orifices because I would have thought extending the funding would mean bags more of MY hard earned money called "taxes" by the new administration. Yeah, the press isn't liberally biased and I'm moving to Mars!