Just what responsibility does someone have to get their personal life situation resolved?
Not much apparently, read this and let your head spin.
What are people who receive FEMA assistance doing to help themselves? That's the question NBC 15's Andrea Ramey asked those who have been staying for free in hotel rooms after they moved out of FEMA supplied travel trailers. What she found out is there are some who are doing very little.But I guess she's not too tired to put off "getting a damn job"!
The scorching heat puts many at the Quality Inn poolside, but for Gwenester Malone, she chooses to beat the heat by setting her thermostat to sixty degrees. Malone's room for the past three months, along with three meals daily, have all been paid for by taxpayers.
"Do you work?" asked NBC 15's Andrea Ramey.
"No. I'm not working right now," said Malone.
Malone says she can't drive and it's too hot outside to find work within walking distance. "Since the storm, I haven't had any energy or pep to go get a job, but when push comes to shove, I will," said Malone.
Just a few blocks away, Kelley Christian also stays at a hotel for free. She says she's not taking advantage of her situation, but admits it's easy to do. "It's too easy. You know, once you're there, you don't have to pay rent," said Christian. "I kept putting it off and putting it off and now, I'm tired of putting it off."
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True, but I dount we will hear any politican tell them that.
$100B in Federal aid to rebuild New Orleans. There is so much construction work going on there, but it's all going to illegals in the costruction business. Yet we pay for the recipients of this project to sit idle in hotel rooms and go to strip clubs at night, waiting for their house to be rebuilt. All the while we have to listen about how tough the economy is. Why can't we pay the residents to be part of the rebuilding process, and they can pick up a construction trade skill along the way? Another example of why the governement should simply get out of anything related to social engineering.
BTW. I've heard a heck of a lot of complaining by Louisiana polititions over the years (senator Landrieu comes to mind) about how rotten the Bush administration has been in responding to this disaster. But the hundreds of billions spent seem pretty generous to me. Louisiana should have been paying attention to their own infrastructure before holding America at large responsible for the response to that infrastructure's failure. But I digress. My point was going to be, after all the billions of American taxpayers have forked out, has anyone ever heard of a single Louisiana polition ever utter the words "Thank You America"? Nope. And you never will.
Help without accountability would be called enabling if it was your loved one.
In government terms, it's called compassion.
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