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Katrina Victims Get Plug Pulled

Mike

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Evacuees losing power, again

10:54 PM CDT on Thursday, August 24, 2006

By Vicente Arenas / 11 News


There’s an organized effort to force Katrina evacuees to pay their own way or leave.


KHOU-TV

Troy Nelson doesn't know what to do or where to turn.
Utility workers turned off the power at more than 100 homes Friday and 11 News learned that thousands more are on the list.

In the heat of the day our cameras found several central air units had no power.

“We can’t live in the heat. It’s hot. Look how I’m sweating right now,” said Katrina evacuee Jerome White.

White was of one hundreds of Katrina evacuees whose electricity was cut off today.

“They came out and they cut everybody’s electricity off. They had about 16 people outside this morning. Worrying about where they gonna be at and worrying about what they are going to do about their meat and their freezers going bad right now,” said White.

“It’s very frustrating,” said evacuee Troy Nelson.

Nelson lost power too after the federal government said it would no longer pay utility bills for evacuees.

“I don’t know what to do,” he said.

The Joint Hurricane Housing Task Force says thousands of others will also have their electricity cut off.

“Today is the beginning of a series of cutoffs that will be occurring over the next several months,” said Cindy Gabriel, of the task force.

The task force says evacuees must find some way to pay bills the federal government once covered.

“We can’t because the money will not be there. The funding is by law for one year,” said Nelson.



That’s about how long Nelson’s been in this southeast side apartment.

He says he can’t work because of an injury and began faxing FEMA for more help, but isn’t sure it’ll come.



The Joint Hurricane Housing Task Force says that by the end of next month, as many as 4,000 people will no longer get help with utility bills.

On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina many victims of the storm will once again find themselves dealing with another storm of problems.

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I can't believe it. These folks are gonna have to pay their own way?

What's the world coming to?
 
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Mike said:
I can't believe it. These folks are gonna have to pay their own way?

What's the world coming to?
I'm with you, Mike. Why are the lazy bums on handouts for a whole year, anyway? I bet a lot of the worthless no-'counts would still be living in hotels if they could get by with.

I saw a story on the news recently about how much property damage had been incurred by landlords in Houston, Texas who had bent over backwards to take these animals in. They showed inside some of the apartments that had been ruined. I can assure you that my dogs wouldn't even go in there after those nasty bastards left them. The human waste and filth was disgusting. The property owners were left holding the bag for repairs or demolition.

This should be a lesson in the creation of welfare dependents. When you give people everything they need all of their lives, they become more worthless than a sack-dependent, propped-up, pet cow. At least a cow has the gumption to meet you at the gate and won't eat where she lays down and craps. :mad:
 

kolanuraven

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I'm sure a lot of these folks are not welfare.

There's a lot of elder folks, sick folks, etc that are suffering and getting tossed into the ' welfare catagory" unfairly.
 
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kolanuraven said:
I'm sure a lot of these folks are not welfare.

There's a lot of elder folks, sick folks, etc that are suffering and getting tossed into the ' welfare catagory" unfairly.
I'm sure you are correct. I'm also sure that what we hear about is only the tip of the iceberg.
 

Tumbleweed

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don

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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156630230994&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
 

Steve

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just as their are scum that trashed the hand that helped them, thier are those who just want thier lives brought back to normal....

Allen Wyman is a giant of a young man, a 25-year-old who adorns his cornrows with silver jewellery and was an imposing presence on the streets of New Orleans.

He says he always felt comfortable, never out of place, on those streets. But when he rides his new John Deere tractor, takes the temperature of the catfish pond, diagnoses plant diseases or tries to get a pecan orchard up and running — well, there's really no other way to put it: Wyman looks out of place.

He has gone from being a cook in a New Orleans casino to farm manager in rural Louisiana — the "hip-hop farmer" as he is known, now grows what he used to put in his skillets and steamers.




And then there were the infamous words of Juvenile, a New Orleans rapper: In the first cut on his latest album, after observing that "We starvin', we livin' like Haiti without no government," he says "Everybody need a check from FEMA, so he can sco' him some cocaine.....


Ever since they tried to drown a *..... on the eastbank
Everybody need a check from FEMA
So he can go and sco' him some co-ca-llina

Save your money up and find out who got 'em for 10 a ki'

Just them crackers behind them desk-es that ain't hearin us though
We starvin! We livin like Haiti without no government....

Talk to 'em - your mayor ain't your friend, he's the enemy
Just to get your vote, a saint is what he pretend to be

entire vulgar lyrics.....
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/juvenile/getyahustleon.html

and he is Highly Praised for telling people to go buy cocaine with thier Fema check........

Kinda tarnished his concerts at Military bases, and his initial response that every one should help out after katrina......
 

elwapo

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lots of crackers with the soup on this topic. I just watched "surviving katrina" last night and was again amazed at the inability of the governing powers to organise, help, and evacuation to those that needed it after Katrina. From a foreigners perspective it is unbelievable that a country that prides itself in the helping of others (such as the kurds in Iraq) was unable, unwilling, or uncaring enough to allow such suffering to happen in its own county. Are you crackers so racist that the color of skin prevents you from giving a sh!t.
 

Mike

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elwapo said:
lots of crackers with the soup on this topic. I just watched "surviving katrina" last night and was again amazed at the inability of the governing powers to organise, help, and evacuation to those that needed it after Katrina. From a foreigners perspective it is unbelievable that a country that prides itself in the helping of others (such as the kurds in Iraq) was unable, unwilling, or uncaring enough to allow such suffering to happen in its own county. Are you crackers so racist that the color of skin prevents you from giving a sh!t.

I take a deep exception to your comments. I have no idea which "Special" you watched last night but can imagine what how slanted it might have been.

"Unable, Unwilling, or Uncaring? The giving to the Katrina Survivors set an all time high precedence of giving!

In fact, there are many "STILL GIVING"!!!!!!! But when one gives and gives and the receptor is not willing to attempt to fend for themselves it makes the giving much less inticing!

It doesn't matter how much you give some people. It's NEVER enough.
 

Soapweed

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My wife and two other adults took seven students from the local church youth group down to Miln, Mississippi, back in June. They worked on "hurrican refief" for several days, and had a sense of fulfillment from doing so. Guess you could say that I even kind of helped, because I kind of furnished gasoline for the Excursion.

The cartoon is still funny, because like it or not, it is quite true. The world in which we live is not a perfect one, elwapo.
 

elwapo

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Mike. I have no doubt about the continued giving that has been going on, and you are much closer to the situation than I. I also take deep exception to the posting of clearly racist cartoons on this thread.
The special I watched had a very candid interview with a doctor at one of the hospitals. He stated that they hand ventilated people in the intensive care ward....... for days before any help came. This is something I would expect to see in Africa, not the richest country in the world. Some deflect this by changing the focus to blaming lazy black people. That is not constructive or proactive for the next disaster. How can the most powerfull country in the world be so unable to evacuate their own people
for a whole week?
 

IL Rancher

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There is plenty of blame to go around for the resposne Katrina but you really need to look at local and state officials first who had buses parked and dedided not to use them for evacuation. Good old Brownie and Bush can also take a heap of blame for not getting FEMA going a heck of a lot faster and for downplaying the warnings about the levies possibly failing.. Bush has two climatic events in American History under his belt, one 9/11 which he handled the initial days about as well as anyone could have imagined and Katrina, which was handled poorley at best. But why were the buses just parked? Why didn't the Louisiana national guard get activated? Why did some choose to stay behind to weather the storm (Hey, guess what, they are doing it in Key west right now for Eduardo or whatever the TS is called even though an evactuaction order was given)... Yes, the cartoon played into very typical sterotypical african American features.. Although most cartoons tend to exgagerate physical features...

My biggest problem with the victims are the stories I heard out of church groups across the nation that offered to take people in, and people were all for until the mention "Oh, and we found you a job" than it seams they weren't interested in showing up. That makes it hard to be enthusiastic about helping more and feeling sympathy for a free ride running ou after 365 days. I thought they should have sent them back home so they could work on the clean up personally but that is kind of like my belief that the folks on unemployment/welfaire/government housing in generally should be held responsible for keeping their areas clean. You know, catch the people tagging and make their punishment be cleaning up grafiti across the city... Wow.. There is an idea...

There is a post on here which is saying how much money is being alocated to Katrian reconstruciton.. Boils down to close to a million bucks a resident or something like that.. While the government is writting the check we the People are the ones who are eventually responbislbe for paying the bill. Wheter the sacrifice will be military spending, arts, highways or education you know the money is going to come from somewhere... 10 billion here and 10 billion there and soon we are talking real money..
 

Mike

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elwapo said:
Mike. I have no doubt about the continued giving that has been going on, and you are much closer to the situation than I. I also take deep exception to the posting of clearly racist cartoons on this thread.
The special I watched had a very candid interview with a doctor at one of the hospitals. He stated that they hand ventilated people in the intensive care ward....... for days before any help came. This is something I would expect to see in Africa, not the richest country in the world. Some deflect this by changing the focus to blaming lazy black people. That is not constructive or proactive for the next disaster. How can the most powerfull country in the world be so unable to evacuate their own people
for a whole week?

A clearly racist cartoon in this thread and being unable to evacuate have nothing in common. It is beyond me that you can correlate the two. :???:

If anything, most people went above and beyond BECAUSEof the color of skin, knowing they would feel the heat if they hadn't, when all was said and done.

Except for their own local and state government, where the ultimate responsibility for the evacuation lies.
 

katrina

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I watched a show on discovery channel about New Orleans. And they have discovered that the levees made by the civil engineers would not hold up under a hurricane 1. That N.O. was a sitting duck for years... That dong all the right things (except evacuating) some people didn't have a chance...
Who was it the posted on here about taking in some evacuees and then getting some more. And when the new ones came the old one left and the new evacuees trashing the church and stealing the van...
There comes a time when you have to do for yourself and not depend on the government...
Question?? Why are we even spending the money to build on ground that is like play dough below sea level????/ Helloooooo
7.3 million spent on the superdome.. That's more than it cost to build it...
Ask the people of Houston...
 

Mike

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Yes Katrina. Money was appropriated several years ago for levee work but the locals spent most on building a huge casino. By the way, was the first project completed after the storm!

It has been said that if you feed the bears everyday they will become accustomed to being fed. They will also resent you the first day you don't feed them.
 

passin thru

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I find it interesting that some might take offense to a cartoon and yet seem to gloos over Nagins remarks.

So if you don't like a cartoon.............a persons answer is to call other people names..............I won't accept your double standard.
 

alabama

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Well I typed out a long response but deleted it.

I will say that it takes many years of living in the Deep South to understand racist. What it is and how it affects every one. Not just those of up that live under the blunt of it everyday.
 
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