What I learned......

[PressurePros 248]

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Top Ten things learned from the media after Hurricane Katrina

1-Responsible people don't make interesting news stories.

2-The hurricane only hit poor families' properties.

3-New Orleans was devastated. Thankfully no other area in the Gulf was affected by the hurricane.

4-Mississippi was reported to have a tree blown down.

5-New Orleans has no white people.

6-When you are hungry after a hurricane, steal a big screen TV.

7-The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in improvements to New Orleans. Now the city is gang free. The bad news is your city just got 3000 more unskilled people to collect welfare and start local gang chapters.

8-If you want to make the news, don't give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you, instead ***** because the government hasn't given you a debit card yet.

9-In some strange phenomenon, only black family members got separated in the hurricane rescue efforts .

10-Ignore warnings to evacuate and the responsible folks will come get you and give you money for being stupid.

I swear I didn't write this

[Adrian 155]

I saw news articles where people actually said that they were better off after all the help they recieved then they ever were before the storm.

[CCPC 26]

I saw news articles where people actually said that they were better off after all the help they recieved then they ever were before the storm.

Sure they are, at least some, but, of course they will be right back where they were before in a very short period of time. My dad has always said that if you were to divide all the wealth in the United States evenly between everyone, within a short amount of time, it would go right back to the way it was to begin with. There's a reason why most of the poor stay poor, and the rich stay rich.

[tropical wave 22]

thats good stuff Ken....

there are verified reports (verified by trustworthy folks I know that seen this) that several evacuees-refugees-N.O. people, were in high value stores here in Chicago buying Versache (sp) handbags and shoes with their government issued debit relief cards......and also using the cash from those same cards and gambling on the river boat casinos in the area..... ahhhh, our tax dollars hard at work !!!!!!!!!! makes you feel all warm and fuzzy for some of these people doesn't it ??

[squirtgun 122]

Let's not foget they were also using the debit cards to buy beer and lap dances at strip clubs in Houston.Our tax dollars at work.

Locally(about 20 miles from us) we have about 200 evacuees at a christian retreat(used to be a christian college) that graciously opened it's doors and cancelled all of their paying events they had coming up to provide shelter(dorm room type setting) for these people.The evacuees have damaged several buildings and the local police have arrested dozens of women for soliciting prostitution.This is a town is smaller than Mayberry (literally) and has 1 very over worked cop.

You can give them all they need and trash will always revert back to trash.

[Jon 533]

What has always bothered me is it is only that trash that complains the loudest we never do anything for them.

They have no clue that those handouts are OUR tax dollars.

They could care less anyway as long as that brown bag has a bottle of cheap wine in it and a pack of Camels.

The gangs is another story, if I had a say in it just round them all up, stick them and all the other low life behind a wall so high they could never get out, give them water, seed and the tools needed to plant, grow and produce their own food and a place to live.

Let them kill each other off till just one remains, if he wants to behave allow him or her back into the normal world. Oh yes no cement headstones, they can use the rock they dig up inside the "gang city".

[First Impressions 14]

I have had many of the same feelings that all of you have expressed. It is a shame that everyone finds it easier to blame someone else than take any responsibility for what happens to themselves.

Let’s take the mayor of N.O. for example it’s everyone else’s job to take care of his city. What the hell is he supposed to be doing?

Hey Ken love the list.

The worst thing about the evacuees is that not only do we have to support these folks (the ones causing trouble) now they have all new areas to damage to. So watch out all you current bad guys new violence is coming to take away your business.

Please forgive my attitude just venting my frustration.

Dan.

[tropical wave 22]

The gangs is another story, if I had a say in it just round them all up, stick them and all the other low life behind a wall so high they could never get out, give them water, seed and the tools needed to plant, grow and produce their own food and a place to live.

Let them kill each other off

"Escape From New York" style......Snake Plisken-Kurt Russell

[Mike Williamson 198]

I was watching the NYC news last night (we have Direct TV and our networks are out of NYC and LA) and they had two different people from N.O. griping about how sick they were of how they were being treated. Both people were living for free in a relatively nice hotel in NYC (one was a Sheraton). The first guy was griping about how they hotel was only paid for another 3 weeks, and that the hotel had turned off the long distance on the phones, so now he had to go get a phone card to make LD calls. The 2nd guy was griping about how he was sick of eating the same old thing every day...TV dinners and rolls. Rather than thanking God they were alive, thanking the hotel or whoever was paying for the hotel, thanking the providers of the food, they were bitching about how they were being mistreated.