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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
I'm Lacking in Compassion and Understanding, Obviously
Earlier this week, FEMA stopped paying for hotel rooms for Katrina victims. Almost 6 months after the hurricane. But they're the bad guys, right?
What have those people been doing for the past 5 months? By now, they have probably decided if they are going to stay wherever they were evacuated to, or if they are going back to NOLA. If they're staying in their adopted hometowns, then they should have, by now, figured out what they're going to do with their lives from here on out, found a real place to live, and moved on with their lives. If they're moving back to NOLA, could they not have found a reasonably priced apartment and a short-term job?
One woman who was interviewed said that they were forcibly evacuated from their homes in new Orleans. Uh... um... well, duh. The other option was dying. So, I guess she's saying that it's the government's fault that she is alive right now. Right?
On the local news in Austin, they profiled a couple who was being evicted from their hotel. He's an eighteen year old high school senior. His nineteen year-old girlfriend is three months pregnant, and now they're going to be tossed out onto the street. Um... can she not get a job? Can he not get his GED and get a job? Why do the taxpayers have to pay for them to shack up?
I did notice something interesting, though... all of the people getting tossed are from the NOLA area. The people who were displaced in Mississippi and Alabama figured out what to do. What's up with the Louisiana people that they can't get it together?
Today, Secretary Chertoff was grilled during a Senate hearing about FEMA's response to the hurricane. After the Senators' opening statements as well as the Secretary's opening remarks, a minister stood up and began yelling "women and children are being thrown out into the streets." I'm pretty sure that that's just not the case. They can receive other assistance, including help with housing. FEMA just can't afford to foot the bill at the hotels anymore.
But, I just don't understand, I'm sure.
What have those people been doing for the past 5 months? By now, they have probably decided if they are going to stay wherever they were evacuated to, or if they are going back to NOLA. If they're staying in their adopted hometowns, then they should have, by now, figured out what they're going to do with their lives from here on out, found a real place to live, and moved on with their lives. If they're moving back to NOLA, could they not have found a reasonably priced apartment and a short-term job?
One woman who was interviewed said that they were forcibly evacuated from their homes in new Orleans. Uh... um... well, duh. The other option was dying. So, I guess she's saying that it's the government's fault that she is alive right now. Right?
On the local news in Austin, they profiled a couple who was being evicted from their hotel. He's an eighteen year old high school senior. His nineteen year-old girlfriend is three months pregnant, and now they're going to be tossed out onto the street. Um... can she not get a job? Can he not get his GED and get a job? Why do the taxpayers have to pay for them to shack up?
I did notice something interesting, though... all of the people getting tossed are from the NOLA area. The people who were displaced in Mississippi and Alabama figured out what to do. What's up with the Louisiana people that they can't get it together?
Today, Secretary Chertoff was grilled during a Senate hearing about FEMA's response to the hurricane. After the Senators' opening statements as well as the Secretary's opening remarks, a minister stood up and began yelling "women and children are being thrown out into the streets." I'm pretty sure that that's just not the case. They can receive other assistance, including help with housing. FEMA just can't afford to foot the bill at the hotels anymore.
But, I just don't understand, I'm sure.
