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ok this is just stupid. Katrinia victims still playing victim..

waggy

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NEW ORLEANS -- A federal court hearing on whether some two dozen hurricane evacuees can remain on a cruise ship past a mid-week deadline was delayed Monday while lawyers for the evacuees and the federal government tried to work out a compromise.


The evacuees' lawsuit claims the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to provide alternative housing and had shown no evidence it would by Wednesday, FEMA's deadline for releasing the cruise ships it had rented.

"FEMA has bungled its assignment," the lawsuit alleges. "FEMA acted incompetently before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina struck, and failed to heed warnings and take preventive actions that could have saved lived and alleviated suffering."

An attorney for the evacuees, Michael Ginart Jr., said settlement efforts were underway and the hearing was put off until Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Peter Beer.

FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews declined to comment on the lawsuit after it was filed Friday, but she emphasized that FEMA had done everything it could to help those who lost their homes.

"We've been working around the clock sending FEMA personnel to the Scotia Prince and other cruise ships to make sure that every single family staying on board has received long-term housing assistance, or if they haven't, to get them signed up right away," Andrews said.

About 300 residents from devastated St. Bernard Parish have been living on the Scotia Prince ship, docked on the Mississippi River at Violet, 12 miles downriver from New Orleans.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include a disabled woman, a commercial fisherman whose FEMA trailer is not yet hooked up, a couple who describes their FEMA trailer as "not livable," and a high-school senior who hopes to graduate in May.

In Pascagoula, Miss., a Carnival Cruise Lines ship housing about 60 people is also scheduled to be released after Wednesday. Carnival had signed a controversial $236 million deal to provide temporary housing on three ships for up to six months.

In New Orleans, cruise ships that have been housing police officers, other first-responders and their families are also to be released. FEMA said it would provide trailers for the first-responders or pay for units at an apartment complex for up to 18 months.

March 1 is also the latest cutoff for civilian evacuees who have been living in about 3,000 FEMA-sponsored hotel rooms since the Aug. 29 hurricane devastated the region. For those in about 7,400 Louisiana and Mississippi hotels, FEMA last week extended the deadline for direct hotel payments to March 15.




what more do these lazy bastards expect us to give them? get up and get a job and find a place to live!?
 
Its sad. They expect everything to be given to them. The hotels should make these people clean rooms or something while they are staying there for free.
 
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
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Flowing in. It isn't going to be rebuilt overnight.
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
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yes the Federal govement should go in and rebuild the schools, hospitals and federal buildings. they are going slow on doing any of that.
 
You do realize that most of these people would rather have 1/3 of what it costs to house them in cash so they could go out, get their own apartments, and find a job, right?

Six months does not mean New Orleans is rebuilt, shiny new, and everyone has a house to go back to. Hell, if you go up the road to Slidell they're still condemning houses and bulldozing them. In several neighborhoods of NOLA the vast majority of housing is destroyed, still. As you might imagine, the local economy is in shreds because so many people have moved away, so many businesses have been destroyed, and so few people have money to spend to stimulate the area.

While I agree that there may be some who are "riding the free ticket" for as long as they can, most, in fact likely nearly all of these folks are sick and tired of temporary accomodations. Unfortunately, it's just not so easy to "find a job and your own place" in a city that is still destroyed.

Particularly not when the government agencies working on rebuilding are looking elsewhere for their labor.
 
What do you expect? Liberal social policies have created a generation of slaves to the state? These people cant even take a dump without assistence from the govt.

 
I'm sure that these are the same people who have been programmed to believe that the government will always have a handout for them. They were probably told to find a new place to live months ago and haven't even bothered because they know the government will bail them out.
 
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
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New Orleans was a disgusting cess pit prior to Katrina...the storm damage and flooding strained the resources of the "weflare city", and no amount of federal aid is going to change the cultural dynamic that made so many people victims to begin with.
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
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It was a cess pit before the hurricane. There shouldn't be any federal money to rebuild the place. It is the responsibility of property owners to secure insurance to protect them from disasters. It should not fall on the shoulders of taxpayers who do have insurance to pay for those that do not. What do you expect though considering New Orleans is heavily liberal democrats who make a living out of playing the victim.
 
Originally posted by: astrosfan90
You do realize that most of these people would rather have 1/3 of what it costs to house them in cash so they could go out, get their own apartments, and find a job, right?

Six months does not mean New Orleans is rebuilt, shiny new, and everyone has a house to go back to. Hell, if you go up the road to Slidell they're still condemning houses and bulldozing them. In several neighborhoods of NOLA the vast majority of housing is destroyed, still. As you might imagine, the local economy is in shreds because so many people have moved away, so many businesses have been destroyed, and so few people have money to spend to stimulate the area.

While I agree that there may be some who are "riding the free ticket" for as long as they can, most, in fact likely nearly all of these folks are sick and tired of temporary accomodations. Unfortunately, it's just not so easy to "find a job and your own place" in a city that is still destroyed.

Particularly not when the government agencies working on rebuilding are looking elsewhere for their labor.
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How much time do they need? we have been paying for them for a long time now when is it there turn?

If a tornado hits my house the federal goverment is not going to put me up until i get off my lazy ass and do something.

I'm all for helping. but when people start to take advantage of the situation (wich is now) then it stops. they should be kicked off the damn boat and figure something out. they had months and sat back enjoying my money.

 
Originally posted by: astrosfan90
You do realize that most of these people would rather have 1/3 of what it costs to house them in cash so they could go out, get their own apartments, and find a job, right?

Six months does not mean New Orleans is rebuilt, shiny new, and everyone has a house to go back to. Hell, if you go up the road to Slidell they're still condemning houses and bulldozing them. In several neighborhoods of NOLA the vast majority of housing is destroyed, still. As you might imagine, the local economy is in shreds because so many people have moved away, so many businesses have been destroyed, and so few people have money to spend to stimulate the area.

While I agree that there may be some who are "riding the free ticket" for as long as they can, most, in fact likely nearly all of these folks are sick and tired of temporary accomodations. Unfortunately, it's just not so easy to "find a job and your own place" in a city that is still destroyed.

Particularly not when the government agencies working on rebuilding are looking elsewhere for their labor.
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also something i dont understand. if there are so mnay unemployed people around, why doesnt govt employ these people to help rebuild.
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
are these people even working while living on these ships? or are they just bumming around?
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they never have and never will work. They are nothing but leeches on society cranking out kid after kid they can not feed nor cloth.
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: astrosfan90
You do realize that most of these people would rather have 1/3 of what it costs to house them in cash so they could go out, get their own apartments, and find a job, right?

Six months does not mean New Orleans is rebuilt, shiny new, and everyone has a house to go back to. Hell, if you go up the road to Slidell they're still condemning houses and bulldozing them. In several neighborhoods of NOLA the vast majority of housing is destroyed, still. As you might imagine, the local economy is in shreds because so many people have moved away, so many businesses have been destroyed, and so few people have money to spend to stimulate the area.

While I agree that there may be some who are "riding the free ticket" for as long as they can, most, in fact likely nearly all of these folks are sick and tired of temporary accomodations. Unfortunately, it's just not so easy to "find a job and your own place" in a city that is still destroyed.

Particularly not when the government agencies working on rebuilding are looking elsewhere for their labor.
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also something i dont understand. if there are so mnay unemployed people around, why doesnt govt employ these people to help rebuild.
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Because first of all, these people have to want to work.
 
Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
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New Orleans was a disgusting cess pit prior to Katrina...the storm damage and flooding strained the resources of the "weflare city", and no amount of federal aid is going to change the cultural dynamic that made so many people victims to begin with.
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no it wasn't a cess pit before Katrina.

And Katrina wouldn't even have been a problem, if your federal government had actually SPENT the money required to fix those levees. People like you weren't willing to spend the money to protect that city in the first place. And now you are too stingy to help them fix the place. Disgusting. :disgust:
 
You do realize that most of these people would rather have 1/3 of what it costs to house them in cash so they could go out and get their own plasma TVs, right?
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qft. 😉

Seriously - these people need to step up and get off their butts.
 
Originally posted by: Rage187
Originally posted by: Aharami
are these people even working while living on these ships? or are they just bumming around?
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they never have and never will work. They are nothing but leeches on society cranking out kid after kid they can not feed nor cloth.
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Bingo.
 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: aidanjm
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
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yes the Federal govement should go in and rebuild the schools, hospitals and federal buildings. they are going slow on doing any of that.
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i have a friend who is volunteering in Mississippi to help rebuild right now. it's nothing to do with the federal government being slow. rebuilding takes time.
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: astrosfan90
You do realize that most of these people would rather have 1/3 of what it costs to house them in cash so they could go out, get their own apartments, and find a job, right?

Six months does not mean New Orleans is rebuilt, shiny new, and everyone has a house to go back to. Hell, if you go up the road to Slidell they're still condemning houses and bulldozing them. In several neighborhoods of NOLA the vast majority of housing is destroyed, still. As you might imagine, the local economy is in shreds because so many people have moved away, so many businesses have been destroyed, and so few people have money to spend to stimulate the area.

While I agree that there may be some who are "riding the free ticket" for as long as they can, most, in fact likely nearly all of these folks are sick and tired of temporary accomodations. Unfortunately, it's just not so easy to "find a job and your own place" in a city that is still destroyed.

Particularly not when the government agencies working on rebuilding are looking elsewhere for their labor.
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also something i dont understand. if there are so mnay unemployed people around, why doesnt govt employ these people to help rebuild.
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Well, I'm sure if they would work then that wouldn't be a problem. One might argue that we could force them to work or cut them off, but I think our government wants to keep them on the system so they will have something to point to when it comes election time.

You have to pander to your base even if it is a bunch of welfare junkies.

 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
oh please, New Orleans is still a disgusting cess pit. Where the fvck is the federal money to rebuild that place?
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New Orleans was a disgusting cess pit prior to Katrina...the storm damage and flooding strained the resources of the "weflare city", and no amount of federal aid is going to change the cultural dynamic that made so many people victims to begin with.
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no it wasn't a cess pit before Katrina.

And Katrina wouldn't even have been a problem, if your federal government had actually SPENT the money required to fix those levees. People like you weren't willing to spend the money to protect that city in the first place. And now you are too stingy to help them fix the place. Disgusting. :disgust:
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70% of the city is below the poverty line with a high crime rate. It was a cess pool before and still is.

And maybe since we have dropped 90 billion into that hole, we as a nation should debate why we are rebuilding a cess pool that is below sea level and will eventually get nailed again?

Move them up stream and leave the port facilities intact.


 
Originally posted by: waggy
If a tornado hits my house the federal goverment is not going to put me up until i get off my lazy ass and do something.
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good luck sleeping on the wet grass and bathing in the storm drains
 
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