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Offline Chairboy

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« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2007, 11:53:53 AM »
While you folks are churning away at this, there are a couple issues untouched in this thread:

1. The government confiscating firearms, in clear violation of constitutional rights.
2. Police of nearby towns preventing evacuees from leaving New Orleans, in some cases by firing over them as they tried to escape.
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« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2007, 12:12:23 PM »
You know what I find amazing. It's been 2 years since Katrina and we STILL hear nothing but whining and complaining from the "victims" who are doing nothing to better their own lives, but expect the rest of the world to do it for them.

I'll be perfectly honest here. I have NO sympathy for those people at all. What sympathy I had quickly ran out when I went down there 3 days after the storm to help out. I stayed down there for over a month with the Coast Guard helping set up emergancy communication sites for FEMA.  Everyday while I was there all I heard from those people was them asking when they were going to get their free handouts. I can't count the times we had people coming to the FEMA sites asking how they were going to get their wellfare checks and food stamps.

My cousin has been down there on and off for the last year or so doing construction work. He lives in South Dakota. He's going down there and getting work no problem. Why??? Because the construction companies can't get enough people to work. Why??? Because those people that are down there don't want to work and rebuild their lives, they want a handout. There are plenty of jobs to be had down there but if they go to work they loose their wellfare checks.

Screw those people. They did nothing to try and help themselves before the storm hit. They were real quick to take anything not bolted down after the storm though weren't they??

I've talked to some of the flight crews that were down there rescuing people from their homes and heard time and again how people they had just pulled to safety were complaining because the crews wouldn't let them take stuff from their homes. I had one guy tell me a lady was refusing to get in the helo unless they took her TV first. What the hell kind of thing is that?

All those people want to do is point a finger at someone....anyone, as long as it gets them something for free. And when they do get something for free all they want to do is complain some more because they want something better for free.

Those folks are taking NO personal responsibility for themselves and their well being.

I performed my humanitarian duties during that disaster and never...not once...did I hear a thank you from any of those people. All I heard was a bunch of complaints. Why weren't you here sooner? Why didn't you help us before the storm? Where am I going to live now? How do I get my wellfare check? Never mind that I volunteered to go there to help and left my family for a month to do it.

Screw em.....I don't owe those people a damn thing.:furious
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« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2007, 12:27:11 PM »
many of those people had lost the ability to even think about taking care of themselves - compliments of the democrat party.

now this same democrat government, expressing its desire to keep the original demographics (remember Nagin's "Chocolate City comment?) so that the democrats can stay in power, wants to shuffle all the criminals and poor people back to the lowest laying parts of New Orleans...

... in a city that Nature wants underwater... and apparently still won't be able to withstand a CAT 5 hurricane.  

Regarding the incidents cited by Chair boy, it is just more examples of the rampant stupidity in New Orleans and LA in general.  The democrat government has treated these unfortunate people like children in these shameful incidents, which violated their civil rights.  and it looks like they want to continue doing so.
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« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2007, 12:55:10 PM »
I'm pretty tired of hearing about NO and their problem with katrina. They didn't get the brunt of the storm, Mississippi did. The smaller Louisiana communities got their act together and started rebuilding as soon as the storm left. No one from the state did a damn thing to evacuate them, they did it on their own.

The only thing I see the feds really need to get involved in is to put pressure on the insurance companies to pay out the value of the policies in force at the time of the hurricane and the repair the levies. Stop the weaseling and nickle and diming of folks who are working in the system. If they had insurance and their house is gone, cut a check for the max and let them get on with it.

The state of LA. needs to get off their dead butts and start insuring that contractors have valid licenses to cut out the scams that are going on. Vigorously prosecute those who are doing the scams and put them away for a long time.

My step son does contracting work on a small scale to build and sell houses as well as set up his own rental property. His Father in law has a medium sized construction company in Southern Louisiana. They are doing a lot of work in Alabama right now because of the state red tape in Louisiana in getting permits to repair or rebuild homes. It ain't the feds causing the slow downs in a lot of cases, it's the state. They avoid NO like the plague due to the graft and stone walling of the city officials. Every plan has to be examined, including the same plan they approved the week before for a different location.

Construction crews from Texas are getting a BUNCH of work in the Lafayette area right now. I got to see the difference in how they got things done compared to a "home grown" construction company (not my son's in laws). Even my son subcontracted a Texas contracting company to build the house he will be moving into next month. They got the foundation, walls, roof, electrical, plumbing, everything except the interior cabinetry and finishing done in less than half the time a "home grown" company took to frame up a house. My son has already made plans to use the same folks again.

Lafayette and a lot of the other smaller towns that got hit are doing far better than NO as far as getting things taken care of. So is Mississippi and Alabama. All you hear about is NO because they have the whining and blame game down pat.
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« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2007, 01:22:12 PM »
nawleans not called the big easy fo nutten.

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« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2007, 02:16:05 PM »


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« Reply #21 on: August 29, 2007, 02:21:24 PM »
Words of advice for Katrina victims:

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It's cool to work for a living and stop living in gov'ment paid housing.

FtotheUtothuCtothuK!  It's been two freaking years and there are jobs out there!
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« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2007, 02:30:23 PM »
The only advice I have for the "victims" is....  

Call your insurance company.

Don't have insurance or enough insurance?   not my problem...  maybe if no one rescues you this time you will be smarter next time.

The feds need to go in and fix levees (or abandon the town) and to fix the roads and the federal buildings like post office and such.... state.. fix state buildings and infrastructre or... abandon the town.

Other than that... I don't see what any of it has to do with me.

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« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2007, 02:35:26 PM »
Shall they celebrate by looting?
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« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2007, 02:43:05 PM »
yeah... they deserve to loot... heck...even the NO police were in on the looting..

So long as they don't come and confiscate my guns... a  riot can be a sporting event.

We never get any good riots around here.

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« Reply #25 on: August 29, 2007, 02:57:48 PM »
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Lafayette and a lot of the other smaller towns that got hit are doing far better than NO as far as getting things taken care of. So is Mississippi and Alabama. All you hear about is NO because they have the whining and blame game down pat.


I was in Lafayette last weekend. I didn't see anything that looked hurricane damaged... at all... and I grew up in Florida, and delivered supplies to relatives in S.C. right after Hugo, so I've seen the aftermath multiple times. Granted, I didn't go all over the city, but the parts I did see looked perfectly normal. It didn't even occur to myself or the girlfriend that the place had even been hit my Katrina.

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« Reply #26 on: August 29, 2007, 03:04:17 PM »
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« Reply #27 on: August 29, 2007, 04:47:35 PM »
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I was in Lafayette last weekend. I didn't see anything that looked hurricane damaged... at all... and I grew up in Florida, and delivered supplies to relatives in S.C. right after Hugo, so I've seen the aftermath multiple times. Granted, I didn't go all over the city, but the parts I did see looked perfectly normal. It didn't even occur to myself or the girlfriend that the place had even been hit my Katrina.


You kinda just made my point. The majority of their damage there was to the outlying and poorer areas. It didn't take them long to fix it.

There are still some blue tarps in the area but not many. There are more in the Lake Charles area and towards Texas that you can see from I-10.
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« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2007, 05:04:25 PM »
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You kinda just made my point. The majority of their damage there was to the outlying and poorer areas. It didn't take them long to fix it.

There are still some blue tarps in the area but not many. There are more in the Lake Charles area and towards Texas that you can see from I-10.


That was another wierd thing. We spent the night @ Isle of Capri right there off of I-10. Didn't have time to explore, but what we did see.. not a blue tarp in sight.

If I were to speculate... I'd say people simply don't want to go back to NO. It was a craphole to begin with (no offense if to people that live there... but I can't shake the urine smell in & around 6th street from my mind).
but... no big migration going back, no reason to fix alot of stuff cuz there's nobody to even live in it. That said, I wish some of them would get bussed back. I could really do without the Bloods that took over a nearbye apartment complex. :mad:

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« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2007, 05:17:16 PM »
I've always heard that New Orleans was a dangerous city, full of poor people and criminals.  Katrina displaced all these poor people and criminals.

The U.S. is a performance based society.  Nobody likes a parasite.  If the residents of New Orleans still don't want to work to rebuild their city, thats fine.  We aren't socialist yet, and its no loss to the rest of us if they live in government projects or fema trailers.  A real American picks up and starts over.  He finds a job, a place to live, and with hard work and motivation, he succeeds.  

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