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I agree that Katrina families should get all the help that they need. What I don't like is YOU thinking that you know best--ALL the time.

If I understand your logic, this is what you would want: Each Katrina victim that is given a $2,000 debit card would then be required to set aside at least 2K in their Wills to give back to the generous folks who gave it to them. Is that how your perfect little world works?

Funny how you advocate that they spent it how they want, but when dead, YOU'd like to decide how one's money is spent. (evidence Mr. Terry).

You've got some loose connections Mr. Clark.

Well, they could say thanks.

Doug,
Looks like you were right on with the Feema folks handing out debit cards. Not $2000 each but starts with $350 for a single person and up to $1500 for a family. That started in Houston today. Folks started lining up at 1am this morning to get their "share". fights broke out by 10 am and they shut the place down by midday. Wonder what the next idea will be. This one doesn't seem to be working even though it is not a bad idea.

Looks like another troll has entered and can't read , can't think, can't contribute. Find the slime pit from whence you came. It's open season on trolls and they get gigged real fast.

mrproduce, what did you expect from them when they started giving away free money? Look what they did to the SuperDome.
It's difficult for someone who's been given everything by the taxpayers all of their life to appreciate anything.
I saw the NBC Nightly News tonight, about how extremely difficult and unfair it was that people had to maneuver through 6 web pages on the FEMA site to sign up for their free money! How DARE the U.S. government actually make people click a mouse SIX TIMES to get their free money! The head of the free-money-after-you-click-this-page (FMAYCTP) should be fired! Let Nancy Pelosi hold him down while Dirty Harry Reid lops off his head!
The nerve of the government; they should at a MINIMUM deliver each welfare recipient his or her money on a silver platter. Or maybe they could just put in an IV as soon as they're born and feed money to their wallet intravenously from the taxpayers account...

My God, Jaycee, how can you say these people have been "given everything" when they lived in abject poverty? Such ignorant comments about the poor in this country should have ended after seeing how poverty made the hurricane situation so much worse. As for the Superdome, I'm sure after several days of being crammed in a hot, dirty building with tens of thousands of others without food or water you would have been perfectly willing to calmly and patiently wait your turn.

MrProduce I didn't know fights had broken out. If everyone was getting something, what caused the fights, I wonder?

JayCee, in case you missed it, there is no more welfare, it ended during the Clinton era. So these folks aren't just poor, they are po', as in they had little of nothing before, and they have less than nothing now. That doesn't give them license to cut a fool, but even po' folks get frustrated dealing with red tape sometimes...have you ever been looking for something YOU desperately needed on a Web site? And you seem pretty Web savvy, something I'm betting most of those folks aren't. I guess I'm saying, give it a break already, JayCee. Ask God to take that anger and bitterness off your heart, you'll feel so much better.

Andrew why have they been living in proverty all their lifw ??????????????????

Andrew, they live in "poverty" because their only "official" source of income is government assistance, which keeps them at the poverty level. (This does not include any income derived from illegal sources, however.)
Were they to be gainfully employed instead of enslaved by this system, most could probably rise above the poverty level.
Our government entitlement and welfare programs keep many dependent on the welfare system, which translates into votes for the Democrats, because the Dems preach that they'll keep handing out the free money, but if you vote Republican you may lose your free money.
Is it too much to ask of someone receiving thousands of free dollars to actually click a mouse 6 times to get it??
If you have no pride in yourself, no respect for property because everything is given to you, no respect for other, and no respect for the law because it only "keeps you down" then you'll act as the animals in the SuperDome acted.

Andrew,
You had no problem twisting a blog of mine around and doing a character assignation on me.
Yet you dodge my question.
Why do these people live in proverty all their lifes?????????????

Sorry for the delay in answering govwriter. I have been celebrating homecoming of our boy Joel from Iraq. What a happy day it has been.

Now as to the fights breaking out. On day one of the "giveaway" in the Astrodome by midday every news channel in the country was reporting the fight breaking out because folks were cutting line, pushing to get ahead, cussing somebody for being slow, etc etc etc, just to get there first.
While it may have not been a bad idea to see that folks had some cash money it ill timed and fail to take into consideration that anytime something is free, folks are gonna to push and shove to get to the trough first. Just go into a kindergarten class and mention free candy and watch the rush. If there are enough kids and not enough teachers to keep order, guarenteed a fight will break out.
So that's the rest of the story on that deal. It has been rerun and rehashed about a zillion times on CNN, MSNBC and Fox to name a few.

Debit cards? What made anybody expect debit cards? Perhaps the debit cards could have been a down payment on reparations.

msproduce,
I bet that was a great day. Tell Joel thanks,for his service.

Doug, I didn't dodge your question, I just haven't been on this blog since Friday. As for why they are in poverty, it's because we live in a system that is geared toward helping the rich, making it extremely hard to climb the social ladder. For your information Doug and JayCee, the vast majority of the poor in this country are employed, many of them working multiple jobs because our minimum wage is so low. In fact, working full time on minimum wage barely gets someone past halfway to the poverty line. Once you are trapped working multiple jobs just to get by (still not making enough to save anything) how are you supposed to be able to improve your situation? You don't have time to continue your education or even to look for other jobs. Of course there are many people who are largely to blame for their situations, but for those who are born poor, the system is stacked in such a way that their odds of rising out of poverty during their lifetime is extremely low. The huge, HUGE majority of people in this country stay in the same economic class their whole life, so you may as well blame them for the color of their skin as blame them for being poor.

Mrproduce, glad to hear your son is home, I'm sure that's both a relief and a blessing for you and your family. Is he home for good or will he have to return?

FOR GOOD, GOV. Thanks for your thoughts.