As much as I feel FEMA is there to help, I also feel it should be accountable for every cent it spends. I hope it has not become another government waste like our military expenses. No, I don't mean for our troops' safety; I mean inflating prices of nuts and bolts that cost 30 cents, but we the taxpayers are billed $5 each for. An example is a blue tarp put on a home by a general contractor would cost around $500 depending on size, and yet FEMA thinks nothing of paying more than $1,000 for each one. Also, why did we allow all those lower than life so-and-so's to receive FEMA checks for nothing? How hard is it to make those applying provide pictures from a $5 throwaway camera showing an actual address? Most importantly, tell everyone receiving money that they are required to submit invoices for money issued in six months, or they must repay our hard earned taxes.
Now to FEMA housing, is there any requirement besides saying you have nothing? Why can there not be a condition that we will provide housing for just so long, then you must find a job and start paying back the cost of your home or trailer paid for by our taxes.
New Orleans will never be better unless it learns that it cannot keep a blind eye to those staying on Welfare, committing crimes, doing drugs. If you're willing to work, welcome back, if not, you're not wanted, nor do we owe you anything. Having babies just to increase your Welfare checks should never be allowed. Drug tests should be mandatory for everyone receiving assistance.
Again I'm sorry for your hardship, but I don't pay taxes so you can just sit around and do nothing. Come on FEMA, get some guidelines to all this tax money you're giving out!
JUNE 17 If anyone ever wonders why Saints fans hate Atlanta with a capital H, here's a good indication. Radio "professionals" at an Atlanta station created an entire segment around making fun of former Saints player Steve Gleason, who is now paralyzed by ALS. Listen, nobody's ever accused DJs of being rocket scientists. But how could someone think it is amusing to pretend to ask a man with a degenerative, fatal disease if he will be alive next week? The DJs have been fired, and are now whining about how gutless their former bosses are. Wow.
JUNE 18 Here's the latest from the Advocate on the fatal hit-and-run accident allegedly involving the president of the Livingston Parish School Board. He's accused by police of hitting a 21-year-old man on a highway early Sunday and driving away. The man died at a hospital later. On Monday, police seized the president's truck and towed it away. But he's available for board meetings: apparently a $500 bond is sufficient for this type of thing over in St. Helena Parish.
JUNE 18 Former broadcast journalist Griffin Scott has posted this plea on his blog for financial assistance from his readers. Scott, who says he was fired after he wrote something fairly innocuous (for Facebook) on his wall, is suing a media giant for his job back. He's framed himself as David going after a bloated media giant, and he's probably not far off.
JUNE 18 Here's a fairly absurd column posted on DIG Magazine about the completely absurd practice of naming killer storms. Tornadoes don't have names. Blizzards don't have names. But hurricanes do, and there's a big process to bestow them, Jacques Cormery writes. He's right about the crazy assemblage of names -- this year, there's everything from Tanya to Humberto -- and his idea that we don't waste good names on killer storms is a good one.
JUNE 17 Political columnist John Maginnis has some advice for Louisiana Republicans: grow up. After the schism that occurred in this past session - fiscal hawks teaming up with Democrats to spank the Republican "majority" and hand Gov. Jindal his, er, aspirations for continued solon control -- they need to figure out how to get along with each other, Maginnis writes.
JUNE 17 Here's the Picayune's obit story for Dorothy 'Miss Dot' Domilise, the lady who made poboys at the uptown restaurant that bears her name. Miss Dot moved to New Orleans during World War II, where she met and married her husband Sam. When she passed away Friday she was 90, and had spent more than 60 of those years working at the restaurant on Annunciation Street.
JUNE 17 This editorial in the Advocate speaks in favor of the consent decrees that have federal judges overseeing police operations and the sheriff's parish prison in New Orleans. Mayor Landrieu and Sheriff Gusman can't get along, so outside forces, like the Inspector General and the judges, are needed to make sure things run right, the editorial opines.
JUNE 18 Here's a post from Manny Schewitz on Forward Progressives that is good for a chuckle. Manny had an epiphany back in November, and is sharing it with us today: he believes that Fox "News" is killing the GOP by pandering to right wing nuts. Now, don't get it twisted: Manny's not broke up about it. He says he enjoys watching the downward spiral with a shot of whiskey and "a schadenfreude chaser."
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