Katrina Fraud
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Posted By: tonyd Posted on: Jun. 14, 2006 at 9:49 AM  21 Comments
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I just read where so called Katrina victims spent millions of our money on sex change operations, porno materials, nice hotels and much more. Once again here is a huge difference with the left and right. The right that I grew up with would of put the people up in hotels, get them housing and allowed them to get on their feet. They then would make them work cleaning up the devastation to earn assistance checks. The left would just rather throw money at them and not solve the problem. Both parties are guilty of this and it sickens me that we just dish out money like candy. Not all the people abused the system but when you have a deal like Katrina thousands will figure out a way to defraud. That is why I hate just giving people welfare checks while they sit around and do nothing. Many just pop out kids and collect more to milk the system. If they had to work for the checks we would have a different story. I am all for helping people with unemployement and welfare. On both instances I would give you 6 months to get back on your feet then the checks would go away. Of course if you have an illness or handicap that is a different issue and you would be taken care of. The left years ago had it figured out, I loved FDR's work program. If you look around this great state you will find many items built by people from that era that worked and didn't take a handout. I don't want this to turn into a Bush bash for Katrina, he and FEMA were not prepared. I just hate busting my ass and seeing what seems like millions of tax payer dollars wasted on fraud. Both parties are guilty of it and I want those people that abused the system to be punished to the full extent of the law.
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Jun. 14, 2006 at 01:11:28 PM
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| Why should they have the recipients do the work when they can suspend Davis-Bacon, ship in a bunch of illegals, pay them sub-minimum wage or pay them nothing, keep them in "Labor" camps until all the work is done and their republiCON cronies have had their wealth restored, deport them, and finally brag to their Moron base (like you) about how liberals caused the problems. As far as punishment, I'm sure you would volunteer to sew the guy's p*cker back on.(I hear there's a rumor that his last name is Gannon) |
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Jun. 14, 2006 at 02:20:08 PM
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| Hey tonyd, Any inside information on where the $9 BILLION missing from Iraq is? Were the "lefties" responsible for that? |
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Jun. 14, 2006 at 04:42:34 PM
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| "Not all the people abused the system but when you have a deal like Katrina thousands will figure out a way to defraud." "I don't want this to turn into a Bush bash for Katrina, he and FEMA were not prepared." This is the key point. Half a million people were homeless, completely wiped out, and needed assistence immediately. A quick, and unfortunately messy, fix was needed. Reportedly, a total of 2.5 million people received financial aid from FEMA, and possibly 900,000 of the applicantions could have been fraudulent. I will grant that this is an outrageously and poorly administered relief effort if these numbers bear out, but then, look who was administering the effort: FEMA - the dumbed down and underfunded agency of the Bush Administration, not the intelligently managed agency of James Lee Witt. Maybe a $2000 credit card was not the best idea after all, but for the 4-day late Bush administration response, this probably seemed politically expedient. Keep in mind that out of the $85 billion appropriated for the emergency relief effort, the potentially fraudulent claims are estimated between $600 million to $1.6 billion. Sadly, the extend of fraud, massive as it is, pales in comparison to the multi-billions stolen or lost by mismanagement through the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. The common thread here is incompetence - not the humanity of offering assistance to those in need. For the people that defrauded the system, and the people within the system that capitalized on the misery of others, we should provide more appropriate public housing, at the penitentiary. Hopefully this Administration will learn a huge lesson from the mistakes made in the Katrina relief effort, in order to avoid a similar human and financial travesty during the upcoming hurricane seasons, but I will not hold my breathe. |
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Jun. 14, 2006 at 05:43:23 PM
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| June's point about throwing out the baby with the bath water seems to sum up your attitude about the Katrina relief, and to a large extend, welfare in general. It definitely opens up the discussion to the broader question of welfare and the government's role. Your comments suggest that you are not advocating the complete elimination of welfare, just a more intelligent implementation. I can agree with this - there is always room for improvement. Many of your conservative allies however, would just as soon destroy it: "Roosevelt is DEAD! His policies may live on, but we’re in the process of doing something about that as well!" - Rush Limbaugh My guess is that George W. Bush would be perfectly happy with eliminating Welfare and Social Security (if it were not political suicide), and sweeping the whole task into his faith-based initiative. Let the Church, with their bake sales and donation plate, take care of the charity, not the government! Unfortunately this has not worked so well in the past when the Church held more sway, like the Middle Ages. It also, as Katrina demonstrated, doesn't work when the Church is under water. Anyway, I always thought the Church should be busy saving our souls, and not feeding our faces or helping us fill out our ballots. |
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Jun. 14, 2006 at 06:01:37 PM
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| tonyd, Before you blame the left for any of the Katrina response, remeber that Geo Dubya Bush, & both branches of the legislature are in the hands of Conservative Republicans. Any blame for fraud, poor management, and half assed leadership is the sole property of the Republican President and his Congressional Puppets. |
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Jun. 14, 2006 at 07:22:48 PM
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| Oh let's be fair Phaedrus. Some of the blame should be shared with Blanco and Nagin. I think between 10 to 20%. The rest the Republicans work hard to earn.
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Jun. 15, 2006 at 12:54:09 PM
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| Tony - Bravo !! To the rest of you - can't you read? "I don't want this to turn into a Bush bash for Katrina, he and FEMA were not prepared." O.K. - admittedly - Bush, FEMA - The entire federal government failed the test miserably.....But I will still contend that the biggest mistakes were made by the governing bodies and PEOPLE of New Orleans !!! Sorry guys - but when you fail to bus your own people out on busses available to do the job, when you fial to ask for fed assistance - after it has been offered several times, when you fail to GET THE F&$%K OUT when you can SEE a FRICKING HUGE STORM COMING YOUR WAY - YOU FAILED YOURSELVES !!! END OF STORY |
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Jun. 15, 2006 at 01:39:06 PM
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| And another thing - speaking of the PEOPLE of New Orleans - (although I am SURE there were others involved in this one as well) To take advantage, when your government IS stepping up with help / assistance / hand-outs - whatever you prefer to call them - is the lowest form of life there is !! I agree with Moron - it was a fast and dirty solution in handing out these cards - but the operative word was FAST. And - anytime something is done fast - mistakes will be made - and whenever mistakes are being made - lowlifes of the world unite to capitalize on them. Crooks of New Orleans - and you KNOW WHO YOU ARE _ if you are reading this - YOU SUCK !!!!!
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Jun. 15, 2006 at 09:03:36 PM
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| Ah, but let us not forget the words of Barbara Bush: "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them." |
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Just the thought - hard-earned, ass-bustin' tax dollars wasted on porno-promotin', perverse, welfare-chiselin' transsexual sex fiends just so they can have more babies - makes legislation seem too weak a remedy.
How about a whole buncha constitutional amendments to outlaw these people from being and to toss their babies out into the street with the bathwater?
tony, why'n'cha send a copy of this, along with your resume, to Karl Rove?
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