Do some Hurricane Katrina survivors think we owe them rent for the rest of their lives?
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina occurred in 2005 and people are still getting rent subsidies. Shouldn’t they have moved along by now, it is 2011?
Were they a government dependent class before the Hurricane – is this just a continuation of the entitlement mentality?
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/end_of_rent_help_is_a_disaster.html
“End of rent help is a disaster for many Hurricane Katrina victims”
Hurricane Katrina is creating a feeling of entitlement.
yes, yes and yes…. we reap what we sow… in this case, a Big Brother (government) Will Take Care Of You mindset… and that passes from generation to generation. It’s not doing anyone any favors, since people don’t use their God-given talents and skills to provide for themselves and their families and build a future of which they can be proud. It’s actually an insult… but that’s not how it’s perceived.
Some of them do, but we sure as heck do not owe them anything. We warned them.
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I know people here in Calfiornia who lost their homes to wildfires. Where’s all the sympathy and outpouring of compassion for them? Or do they not deserve it because they were white, their houses were worth $750,000, and because they can afford it?
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may be it the way the government has addressed it past and present
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their houses were a dump before, its a dump now. i dont think so!
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They vote Democrat so they will get free rent for life and Katrina had nothing to do with the free rent they have been getting that all their lives.
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yes, yes and yes…. we reap what we sow… in this case, a Big Brother (government) Will Take Care Of You mindset… and that passes from generation to generation. It’s not doing anyone any favors, since people don’t use their God-given talents and skills to provide for themselves and their families and build a future of which they can be proud. It’s actually an insult… but that’s not how it’s perceived.
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Yes, they do.
They complained when they only got $2000.00 FEMA cards, they complained when they got sandwiches and water instead of hot meals and beer, they complained when they had to sleep on quality cots instead of queen sized beds. They complained when football season started and Reliant Stadium needed to vacate them for the games to be played in Houston. They complained when FEMA said they were going to stop paying for rent after a year, they complained after a year and a half, they wish for others to pay for them forever.
if my home burned to the ground due to a lightening strike FEMA would not come in and pay for my life for years. FEMA is not paying for Hurricane Ike survivors from Bolivar and Galveston the same way they took care of Katrina survivors.
It all has to do with education. Texas educates their people to be able to take care of themselves, Louisiana did not have the same forethought for many of their residents.
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No kidding, we have major flooding in the midwest those people aren’t letting the Fed’s take care of them, nor did they sit on a roof in stolen shoes waiting to be rescued, they got out when they where told. They have moved and found places to live.
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No. That would be the governments of Iraq, Israel, and Liberia.
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Entitlement mentality is what Democrats want to achieve. If they can convince you that you can not survive without the government, then they have increasingly better chances of being elected for each term.
Have you ever had a pleasant experience when dealing with the government and their bureaucratic nonsense? The government has never did anything as well as the private sector.
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I don’t know when people decided it is the governments job to protect them from every aspect of their life.
To beg from the government is a sign of failure. But no one tells them that.
Picking yourself up from failure is a good thing.
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Yes, When we moved them, All we did was move the fleas and ticks sucking on the big dog of society from the wet to the dry part.
Well said Kathryn
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let me think if they lived in New Orleans( which was not Hit by Katrina but was devastated when the Levees failed from the storm surge) then yes they do. But if they lived along the Mississippi Gulf Coast (where Katrina made landfall) and wiped the entire 90mile stretch off the off the face of the earth and have rebuilt and are moving along No.
The City Of Houston 4th largest city in america was hit recently by Ike a hurricane bigger than Katrina and is back up and running after 6 months.
So do we owe them any thing not a dime.
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the government owes them and anyone else nothing. …..
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It’s a shame of what the media has made us out to be. Many of us are hard working people and have been/have rebuilt our lives since the storm. If anyone HASN’T none a thing for themselves by now, then shame on them, I agree. However, most of New Orleans which is still in ruins is a large part uninhabited. The people who lived in these areas are the ones spread out around the country.
It just breaks my heart to see all this good now and since Katrina being done and everyone still puts us down :/
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New Orleans resident