Why are victims of Katrina still in Fema Trailers?

Question

They are complaining about poor living conditions. FEMA's main goal is Emergency Response, not providing welfare for the lazy worthless people three years later. If you don't like the trailers, get the f*** out of them. I hate worthless trash who won't support themselves.

Answer 1

Hurricane Katrina occur ed in 2006. FEMA provided 120,000 trailers to people who are displaced from their primary residences following a Presidential declared disaster. It is hard do see why these people do not have their own place to live by 2008. It seems that these people are taking advantage to the people who provided this type of disaster. This how the federal government operates when there is a disaster like hurricane Katrina.

Answer 2

I don't like to be judgmental but that area is use to free handouts and corruption.  That is the result of years of democrat control.

Liberalize is a disease, it leads to National suicide!

Answer 3

I hope the person asking the question is familiar with karma, careful what you say about things like that mister "top contributor"!

Answer 4

Try walking in their shoes, do you know how it feels to loose all you have and have no money, no job. Have you no empathy? Who are you to judge!! Actually, what gives you that right? Shame on you!

Answer 5

It is ridiculous these people are still in these trailers. Why is FEMA still there?  I don't think the government should help people who don't help themselves.   They aren't trying to get jobs. I was down there for cleanup  for 3 months after it happened( and have been back 3 times since) and they tried and still try to give the work to the locals and they wont do it. The money spent on cleanup down there could have gotten a lot  those people back on their feet.  There is a Yahoo video of a mother and 2 daughters that had their electricity pole broken and the were dieing because they didn't have A/C.  There is 20 things in that video that shows how lazy thy are.

The $2500 cash card that they got HAD to got to new clothes and other c**p they didn't need. The day they gave those cards out everyone down there had bags of brand new clothes, shoes, and cellphones. That really helped those people!

Answer 6

do you have any idea what the poverty level is in new orleans?  alot of people went from almost nothing to completely nothing.

not all people who are poor are lazy.  alot of people were working in the french quarters and the casinos.  they dont get paid very much.

poverty was and still is a huge problem in new orleans, just be glad you arent in their situation

Answer 7

A lot of those people were paycheck to paycheck before the storm...now they have nothing. No car, so they can't get to work, and they can't move without money. A lot of people are stuck, and not because they are lazy. I would like to see you try to support yourself if you lost everything and had no money and no way to get a job. It's terrible to call those people worthless.

tincoat: that's not what I think, that they should be there forever. I just think it's unfair to call them all lazy. Some of those people are disabled and unable to get work. Sure there are people taking advantage of the system, but I would never say all of them are.

Answer 8

Yeah they still do.  I think I saw something on the news about some of them having asbestos or something in them.  Suckerz.

Answer 9

That's a good question.I have tried to keep up with it and donate to their cause but after seeing a video on a news program I said no more.Except for the really elderly,and disabled ones all should have either relocated by now and supporting themselves or helped with the clean up themselves,after all it is their city.These people have done neither As far as transportation goes they could of gotten a school bus to take them all to the same area to work,yes some red tape there but not impossible or a church bus.After 3 years they don't deserve anymore attention or money from taxpayers spent there.I am sorry but that basically how they will never do any better.

Answer 10

I wouldn't have put it that strongly but the sentiment is correct.  FEMA is an emergency response agency.  They are there, like the Red Cross, to give immediate aid to people in disasters.  This aid should be measured in weeks not months and years.  It was a tragedy that the people of New Orleans lost everything in a hurricane.  That isn't an excuse to sit around feeling sorry for themselves and expecting the government to take care of them.  Unfortunately, many of these people were already on welfare so allowing the government to take care of them is natural.

ERASERHEAD:  By your response, it seems like you expect them to always remain in the FEMA housing living off the government.  At what point does personal responsibility begin?  FEMA gave most of them $2500 cash cards.  With that, I could have left the area, found a job, and started over. But how much do you think it takes to get them started and out of FEMA care?