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Title: "I certainly feel somewhat abandoned" Post by karma on Feb 10th, 2006, 3:18pm Brown also says Quote:
Thats what you get when you put a boy to do a mans job. Viv la U.S. Coast Guard. Those guys rock! |
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Title: Re: "I certainly feel somewhat abandoned" Post by BarbaraD on Feb 10th, 2006, 4:05pm Poor little thing -- I really feel sorry for him. I loved it when that senator told him to quit trying to pass the blame and stand up like a man and take some responsibility for his actions. All he has to say is he didn't have a clue what he was doing (and who doesn't know that) instead of trying to blame everyone else for his shortcomings. He was appointed to a job where he wasn't supposed to have to do anything and all hell broke loose and he didn't know what the hell to do - we could get these hearings over in an hour if they'd just get to the heart of the matter.... Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: "I certainly feel somewhat abandoned" Post by carriefu on Feb 10th, 2006, 5:16pm can anyone say scapegoat????how bout the wag the dog act they tried to pull this week??lmao!!!! |
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Title: Re: "I certainly feel somewhat abandoned" Post by Charlie on Feb 11th, 2006, 2:49am "Doing a heckuva job, Brownie." http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/hand on hip.gif Charlie |
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Title: Re: "I certainly feel somewhat abandoned" Post by burnt-toast on Feb 11th, 2006, 12:36pm They're in shuffle the blame mode for a complete breakdown of numerous key government agencies organized to effectively manage disasters. While representatives plaster their mugs all over the news getting free publicity for themselves and their political parties, U.S. Citizens continue to suffer. Insurance companies have bailed out using the ole' take us to court defense(he, he, he, - we know ya can't afford it so it's our standard answer). The government has allocated unlimited resources to "Saving the rest of the world" yet can't find more than a pittance to "Save our own Gulf States" Many, many areas remain absolutely untouched since the disaster with folks not even permitted to return home to begin recovering. What irritates me most is that so much needs to be done for the folks who are still living with the the effects of this disaster. Bad case of Nero's Fiddling while Rome burns. Tom |
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Title: Re: "I certainly feel somewhat abandoned" Post by stevegeebe on Feb 11th, 2006, 5:24pm Yes, well, Mr. Brown, join the fucking club. We feel the same way. I wish all of this hearing shit would just end. These government types waste more time in an insincere effort to cast blame for political advantage and ignore the real needs of the citizens. Why am I surprised. Dianne and I did not apply for Red Cross help and when we applied on line for FEMA help we were rejected. We actually had a FEMA representative interview us one day and all we asked for was some relief in paying for the generator. Days later we received a letter rejecting our request. Thank God we were responsible people and were insured to the hilt. We cleared the fallen trees from or land and stacked them neatly along the street only to have the FEMA dicks take a back-hoe destroy the inverts of our drainage ditch and leave chuncks of trees causing recurrent drainage problems for us to remedy. In fact, we are still, today, cutting down twisted pines and other trees and burning them because FEMA has finished cleaning up our storm debris. Dianne and I burn a camp fires just about every day to dispose of the tons of lumber. We don't complain because we actually prefer watching a fire than watching the local news. I drive into a town without traffic lights, sinking streets and people from other parts of the country who have brought cutting you off to the level of an art form. I could easily kill them without a bit of remorse. Many parts of town are still without power and the local provider will have to raise rates 140% to stay in business. It is worse than I hope you will ever know in your home town. Does this sound like 85 billion dollars to you? Y'all need to read the facts. Please put nola.com on your bookmarks. Please read the local blogs before you make comments of the reputation that is so easily attributed to the problems down here. Washington has some nerve calling us corrupt. In a country as blessed as the USA, how do we end up voting a cheer-leader into office? I voted for this idiot and if I had a choice to do it over, I would do it again. There was no real choice. And now we are rebuilding in Iraq. I wish Paul Bremmer would just fly in some C-31's and distribute some crates of $100 bills so we could actually see some of the money that the President has talked about. Please read about what is going on. You really need to because, God forbid, your hometown may be next. The American people are good. The Government is not so good. Steve G Jonny. I am trying to get some of our photos put in an electronic format and I may be sending them on to you to post to the board, if you can help me. |
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Title: Re: "I certainly feel somewhat abandoned" Post by burnt-toast on Feb 12th, 2006, 9:45am Steve, Having fought to recover from two disasters, one caused by an inept and careless local government agency and the other a natural disaster - My family an I can honestly say that we understand and empathize with what folks are going through. We've followed the hurricane recoveries in Florida and now the Gulf States. I've read some of the blogs from the link you provided. Folks are experiencing exactly what we experineced on a personal level with more localized disasters. While little or nothing is being done... FEMA - provids little more than lip service to confused and stunned citizens. State government points fingers at local and federal agencies, local government points right back to state and federal agencies. Citizens must individually contact endless numbers of agencies who insist they have no money or power to provide assistance and can't tell you who is actually in charge. Government hides from any accountability by using unlimited taxpayer money to manipulate the legal system and "right to know" laws. Even when policies clearly provide coverage for the event. Insurance company staff attorneys use obscure policy terminology to deny, then drag payment out via the legal system. (In doing so their goals are to first have you just give up and secondly to simply delay payment on the policy for 5 years or more). The best part is - they'll continue billing you for the coverage they are denying. Most banks will not care about the disaster or an insurance company's crap. Many homeowners find they must continue paying the mortgage on a home they can no longer live in. If they want to move forward even in another state they'll need to manage payment of two mortgages. If they stop paying on the first mortgage they'll be denied the second because they defaulted on a loan. Due to absurdly complex legal systems/processes, attorneys and "required expert witnesses" cash in by demanding large percentages of equity rightfully belonging to homeowners who desperately need every penny to move forward. Citizens going forward without an attorney face losing on a meaningless technicality or simply not formatting and/or binding a document the way the courts want them. Small businesses find out that they can only apply for loans - what a joke, needing to rebuild a business with no business income for an undetermined amount of time and somehow being expected to repay a new loan on top of existing business expenses that continue to be outstanding. Ultimately most citizens find out there is little or no assistance available. So they somehow struggle to rebuild on their own and suddenly government agencies that couldn't help run around taking credit and saying how proud they are of their recovery efforts. We realize that affected residents are just beginning to get a taste of hell on earth. We believed that we went through these things because we were involved in small localized disasters. Disasters that were too too small for politicians be get any press out of - but now we know better. Our government freely uses our tax dollars to save and rebuild the world but never has resources to return something to the people who have paid those taxes. I hope these and other recent events serve as a wakeup call to Citizens that widescale change in government is necessary. We have allowed our representatives to forget that first and foremost they work for 'The People" of the U.S., and we need to send them a strong reminder of who their bosses are. Tom |
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