Right-Wing Amendment Forces Katrina Victims To Find A Job Before Receiving Aid
Right-Wing Amendment Forces Katrina Victims To Find A Job Before Receiving Aid
The House today is debating the Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, introduced an amendment that would require victims of Hurricane Katrina to perform 20 hours/week of approved “work activities” to receive financial aid for housing.
The Institute for Southern Studies reports that Louisiana is “still largely an economic disaster area as a result of Katrina.” Many jobs have disappeared, and the first houses in the Lower Ninth Ward weren’t completed until late last month, amid a “sea of ruin.”
In an impassioned speech, Rep. David Scott (D-GA) addressed Hensarling on the House floor:
This amendment is cruel, it is cold, it is calculating, and it is pandering to the schizophrenic dichotomy that has plagued this nation since they first brought Africans on these shores from Africa. And that is the issue of race and poverty. Let me tell you something, gentleman. Where were you, where was your amendment when the Twin Towers were hit and the people in New york suffered that catastrophe? There was no cry before we gave them help. “They got to go get a job.” Everybody was there and poured in help, as they should, the American way. Where was your amendment down in Florida when the hurricanes hit down there? Nobody said, “Make ‘em work before we help them.”
Watch it:
Earlier this evening, the House defeated the amendment 266-162.
Transcript:
SCOTT: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I want to commend the distinguished gentle lady from California, and our chairman, Mr. Frank, for doing an excellent job in leading this. This amendment represents the ugly side of this nation. This amendment is cruel, it is cold, it is calculating, and it is pandering to the schizophrenic dichotomy that has plagued this nation since they first brought Africans on these shores from Africa. And that is the issue of race and poverty. Let me tell you something, gentleman. Where were you, where was your amendment when the Twin Towers were hit and the people in New york suffered that catastrophe? There was no cry before we gave them help. “They got to go get a job.” Everybody was there and poured in help, as they should, the American way. Where was your amendment down in Florida when the hurricanes hit down there? Nobody said, “Make ‘em work before we help them.” Where were you last month when the hurricanes hit in Arkansas and in south Georgia, when the president went down and declared it a disaster area? We helped those people. My friend, let me remind you of something. I’m going to tell you this story. It’s a story about some folks that went down the road to Jericho, and this gentleman fell among thieves. He had a disaster. He was hurting, and he was pained. Somebody walked by him and said nothing and did nothing. Another person walked by him and did nothing. Your amendment is worse. You want to kick them and say, get up and get a job. But that certain man had compassion on him in his hour of need, picked him up, put him on his horse, took him to an inn, and paid him to take care of him and house him. That’s what this amendment is doing. It is a good Samaritan amendment. Yours is the ugly American amendment and it needs to be defeated.
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GREEN: Thank you, Madam Chair, and I thank the members who have spoken before me, and I’m greatly concerned about this amendment. I’m concerned because I, too, understand what happened with 9/11. It was one of the great disasters of our time, and yet, I know of no amendments comparable to this one. My friend from Texas and I, in committee, engaged in somewhat of a Q and A. So I believe it appropriate and fair that he and I do a similar thing at this time. So to my friend from Texas, I ask, what amendment would you have imposed on the more than $15 billion that the families received after 9/11, which, by the way, I think was appropriate? I ask my friend to respond and I yield him such time as he may need within my two minutes to do so.
HENSARLING: Well, one, to help answer the question of the gentleman from Georgia, I wasn’t in Congress so therefore I had no –
GREEN: Because my time is limited, let me just ask, if you would, what would you have done was my question.
HENSARLING: Well, as typical, what I would try to do is offer offsets, and I believe that any income-based program of cash assistance or other welfare assistance ought to be –
GREEN: Reclaiming my time for just a moment. Please, do not — I want to engage, it’s just that I have limited time. Would you — would you have required work from the families of 9/11?
HENSARLING: Again, I believe that anybody who is receiving income-based assistance from the federal government ultimately — ultimately — ought to be on the road to self-sufficiency.
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Why did you post this TP?
The wingnuts will have a field day on how we just want to support laziness and welfare cases.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:25 pmHa, another loser from TX. I wish we would give it back to Mexico.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:26 pmSomebody explain this to me
Why would somebody who has a job need government aid?
March 20th, 2007 at 7:27 pmThey still can't find a job after all these YEARS!!!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:29 pm#4 Jake. I get so hot watching you make a complete ass of yourself. How about a date, some drinks, and some time in a hot tub this weekend. Just you and me.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:30 pmI'm GLAD they posted it...
...f**k what right wingnuts say, think. feel, spew...
...THEY are the heartless, gutless, greedy,selfish, warmongering, mass murdering, war profiteering, racist, sexist, homophobic, hypocritical, TRAITORS...
...they support CORPORATE welfare, red state FARM, prison, and reduced slave wages labor/welfare...
...they should ALL have EVERYTHING they have that they covet...
...TAKEN AWAY...
...right wing conned'self-servatives are TRASH...
...and like GARBAGE they should be...
...interred or incinerated...
March 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pmWe hear ya Rep Scott! Speak some more!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:32 pmNow this is more like it. Let those bums eat cake!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:32 pmThe problem is, that there really is a significant percentage of NO folks who didn't do shit before, and want to continue that. Lots of welfare families got hit. Now they want a new house and McDonald's every day.
There needs to be a way to filter out the losers, and help the motivated people.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:32 pmRebel in CA sez:
I think you just answered your own question, Rebel...
March 20th, 2007 at 7:33 pmJake what a loser you are, tell me divorced a few times I bet? Good think idiots like you were not on planet earth when humans first evolved, it was humans ability to work together that helped us become top of the food chain.
There are no jobs to be had there, ya see all the "promised money" and help from your lying president never came to the business owners, and home owners, so there's no economy to go back to.
I gotta take a big jake now.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:34 pmEverything coming from texas begins to stink....u know, cause & effect...
March 20th, 2007 at 7:40 pmRep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) is a complete A$$HOLE!!!!
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) = CUA (Completely Useless American!!)
March 20th, 2007 at 7:41 pmForTruth,
Yes there always those that abuse the system, but I would rather have 10,000 lazy New Orleans residents using my tax money, versus rich asswipes like Bush and Cheney robbing my tax dollars with no-bid haliburton contracts, oil tax breaks/subsidies , huge military wasteful contracts of all sorts, and the list goes on. We can't even provide our troops armored SUV's, and the best care money can buy when they come home missing legs, or worse missing their self worth.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:41 pmI must respecfully disagree, For Truth.
The vast majority of welfare recipients truly need the help.
Those that abuse the system are just general cheats - they would cheat on Wall Street if they had the means to get there. No matter where they are, what situation,
they will find a way to cheat, lie, steal.
Welfare, I believe, is one of those issue Repub's throw out as a diversion to us. We start yelling, "Welfare Fraud!" and attack each other, while corporate welfare goes on unchecked.
They keep us off balance. Attacking each other while they pocket the profits.
JMHO
March 20th, 2007 at 7:41 pm#1 - "Why did you post this TP?"
Because TP is proud of the socialist agenda! I admire TP's forthright outrage!
"The wingnuts will have a field day on how we just want to support laziness and welfare cases." Comment by ForTruth
Naturally, Progressives support people "lacking motivation" - they're called "Democratic constituents".
(If I didn't know better, I would have thought #1 was a Conservative troll......Good job - your check is in the mail.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:42 pmJake = Emanuel Goldstein
It's a never ending two minute hate, here at Think Progress.
...sigh!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:43 pmThere needs to be a way to filter out the losers, and help the motivated people.
Comment by ForTruth #9
...you're right Truth...
...in ALL socioeconomic strata, states, races, religions and political affiliations...
March 20th, 2007 at 7:43 pmThey still can’t find a job after all these YEARS!!!
Comment by Jake — March 20, 2007 @ 7:29 pm
They still haven't received their Insurance checks, services, and aid after all these YEARS!!!
If you want to be Jake'ing off on this one, help yourself dum bass! But it just makes you look like the st*pid heartless 12 year old b*tch that we all KNOW you are!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:43 pm#4 Jake,
#
They still can’t find a job after all these YEARS!!!
Comment by Jake — March 20, 2007 @ 7:29 pm
Have you been to New Orleans since the hurricane? Have you seen the devastation? Have you seen the black layer of toxic sludge that remains prominent in the areas that were flooded? Did you hear about the bodies that they are just finding now after all these MONTHS?
What have you done to help those fellow Americans? Or are they really not fellow Americans in your eyes because they are black, or poor? Your lack of compassion and charity is disturbing, but your callous ignorance is appalling. Combined they are inexcusable.
The only reason that I can think of that you would so publicly be such a moronic ass is that you are trying to discredit yourself. In that case, you have succeeded.
Go away you anti-American sack of rotting pig entrails. Or better yet, please go down to New Orleans and spew your hate speech there. I suspect you will receive an "appropriate" response.
Good riddance.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:44 pm#14- As you can see, Gay Lover is selective about who robs him.....
March 20th, 2007 at 7:44 pmThe Republicans are so funny. Just bring back slavery and stop beating around the bush. The next suggestion by Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), will be for the sale of blacks from the Katrina storm. Look everyone knows it's all about stealing the property of the Blacks. Rep Hensarling is acting quickly as the White House crime wave goes down. To think the White House is trying to push US Democracy to the Middle East and this is the example of that. Well looks like the South is really trying to raise again. Glad Lott got his new home built and had his other home fixed with taxpayers money before the Congress asked what happen to the stolen Katrina money. Lott knew as a true GOP criminal he got his the hell with the people of his state.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:45 pmMy GOD i hope some posts what's going on on CSPAN right now!!!!!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pmCan't anyone from Texas name their child something that DOESN'T sound like one of Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel's kids?
March 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pmjake? you here goofing off again?
March 20th, 2007 at 7:47 pmLooking good, Republicans, looking good.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pmValicunt Penus,
That's right, unlike you who would do anyone as you have no morals.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pmhallo VK.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:49 pmI trust your evening is going well..
oh man...
March 20th, 2007 at 7:55 pmthat jeb guy needs to find a new rug maker...
that's just awful... i hate phony...
FREDO!! that's Bushie's nickname for AG!!!
March 20th, 2007 at 8:00 pmI guess Nico's censor did not appreciate me applauding his contribution here at TP. Seriously, Nico - great job! Of course Dems love peple who can't get or keep jobs - they're called "constituents".
March 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pmwhy?????
why is it taking so long to post???
March 20th, 2007 at 8:02 pm:( :( :(
an observation, not necessarily in this thread...
but anyone who says "anyways" is barely over 30 years old...
most definitely not over 50 unless poorly educated...
no offense to anyone... but...
i hate LYING. i hate LIES and stoopidity...
March 20th, 2007 at 8:02 pmJackie - Since Katrina, to what do you attribute the spike in crime in Houston?
March 20th, 2007 at 8:03 pmAAAAARGGH!!!!!
slow posting....
March 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pm#33,
Texans.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pmValicunt,
Jackie - Since Katrina, to what do you attribute the spike in crime in Houston?
It's not just Houston that's seen an increase in crime!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-18-violent-crimes_x.htm
How about a failing economy, no child left behind leaving too many children behind, poor wages, wide open borders flooding us with desperate people, homeland security what a scam from the "party of smaller govt is better".
You people suck, and you'll suck anyone, hear you like a little K-9 on occasion that true?
March 20th, 2007 at 8:09 pmYou Repukes sure like to push people around. A bloody nose would improve your disposition.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:10 pmDA MMMMMM ITT!!!!
March 20th, 2007 at 8:10 pmPS Valicunt,
The rise in crime is due to your Chimpmaster cutting budgets here, so we can get them over there before they get us here...
What a tool, and fool you are to even think otherwise.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:12 pm#
My GOD i hope some posts what’s going on on CSPAN right now!!!!!
Comment by whiteyfresh — March 20, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
Missed it. Can you do a brief synopsis?
March 20th, 2007 at 8:28 pm162 Simon Legrees.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:56 pmMy GOD i hope some posts what’s going on on CSPAN right now!!!!!
Comment by whiteyfresh
Well, what is it? I have no television.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pmYes, fill us in, whiteyfresh. The Wings game is on right now, and Michigan residents are contractually obligated to watch. ^_^
March 20th, 2007 at 9:02 pmE-x-a-c-t-l-y.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:09 pm33 It's the many racial comments by the GOP and the actions of racism. As for crime well crime isn't a color and it's happening around the United States. Hard times and chaos help bring crime up. Out here in Ca. we have gangs of all colors, skin heads and crime by all races so that's another problem. I'm just sick of the US past that I thought we learned from only to here wacko like Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), talk about Americans like they did during the slavery years. I guess I get made because my son who is African American is now fighting in Iraq only to here this is what American elected officials think of minorities and poor. To bad all the US Treasury money allotted to the Katrina victims didn't get it. As it went to Cheney contractors for doing nothing, and of course the FEMA employees stealing the money. But like good Americans minorities have to remember to pay their taxes.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:10 pmJackie - Since Katrina, to what do you attribute the spike in crime in Houston? Comment by valiant venus — March 20, 2007 @ 8:03 pm
Bad hospitality, a lack of generosity and discrimination in the job market? Oh wait, sorry, it's always the black folk that are to blame! You're such a racist c*nt, you hate filled t*rdblossom.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:10 pmSince Katrina, to what do you attribute the spike in crime in Houston?
Comment by valiant venus
Yao´s injury.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:20 pmTo understand the mentality of the Rednecks, the Right wing-Nuts, the Neocons, and the present day KKKers one must look to the current psychobabble terminology to determine their mindset. The term of the day is "denial." And for want of a more fitting term I will use Bushco to encompass all the groups named above. Hence Bushco is in denial about Slavery. Our history placed slavery where it belongs over 150 years ago: in our history. However, the present Bushco and its predecesors of the last 160 years or so will deny the abolition of slavery and declare that all was done was that the name was changed to "Welfare" and the "Damn N...s" don't have to work. I am sure to the pure advocates of the Bushco (please don't forget my current definition) Katrina was a gift from their God that allowed them to rid the Beautiful City of New Orleans and the South from a great deal of the Black Plague. The entire effort of the Bush Administration regarding Hurricane Katrina from the first gentle breeze to the last breath of disaster has been to rid the South of the "DNs." I dont deny it! Ask Bushco before denying my premise.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:21 pmYao´s injury.
Comment by Juan C
Oh my god, that's funny, Juan. :-D
March 20th, 2007 at 9:25 pmOh my god, that’s funny, Juan. :-D
Comment by Zooey
Isnt it, Zoo? (You re too kind, thats all) :)
March 20th, 2007 at 9:31 pmWingnuts make me sick. You give 'em hell David.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:43 pmI knew when I posted that comment it would be interesting. Well, all disaster-ridden areas are to be treated equally. The WTC was the whiteboy financial center. NO was, well, you know. So all in all, Katrina victims should NOT have to find a job first before recieving aid. You need to have a phucking address to get a job, and transportation to get to the job. Food to eat, to be able to concentrate, or physically exert the body.
It would cost just as much to fund a screening process than to just give the damn money.
Thanks,
ForTruth.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:56 pmForTruth,
Very sensible. I knew you had something up your sleeve.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:59 pmZooey I think I was a bit irritated with some other morons at the time.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pm#52 ForTruth,
The Bushco NEVER had any intention of helping the black minorities in the path nor wake of Katrina. They will continue to provide lip service and boondoggle money to Cheney et al but they will NEVER help one Black person to reestablish any semblance of a normal, even for them, life in the South. For every one they can get to move it is one less they have to move to the back of the bus. The whitey sympathizers they throw under the bus so only Bushco wins.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:16 pmZooey I think I was a bit irritated with some other morons at the time.
Comment by ForTruth
Perfectly understandable, of course. :)
March 20th, 2007 at 10:48 pmIs the CBC still thinking they can work alongside the FOX News network in the upcoming campaign elections? Is that really the message they want to put out there; that they are political lackeys that can be bought for a price by the Repubs? You had better all rethink that one, CBC.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:07 pmApparently Gov. Blanco is entering the job market.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:16 pm#45 - "But like good Americans minorities have to remember to pay their taxes." Comment by Jackie Rawlings
They only pay income tax, Jackie on INCOME that's reported. And then we have the gift of "Earned Income Credit".....Not to mention the corrupt teacher's union which delights in dumping the poorest teachers in minority neighbourhood schools. (Yep, those Democrats REALLY give a damn about poor kids - [sarcasm OFF!]) Couple that with the marauding hordes of Republicans forcing kids to drop out of school and I can understand why black America embraces the Dem Party.....
March 20th, 2007 at 11:38 pmHOW 'BOUT WE MAKE Hensarling PERFORM 20 HOURS OF APPROVED WORK A WEEK TO BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE AS A representative of the HOUSE OF REPS. in congress, THAT PUKE-FACED LITTLE TWERP and repugnant-repub rightwingnut crank and fudge-pachyderm PIECE OF HYENA-SHIT!!!!!
March 21st, 2007 at 12:11 amHensarling is a disgusting Neo-Nazi fascist fool and he must resign from the Congress in disgrace.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:11 amRepublicans are just pissed because some of the people they left there to die survived. You know the aged, infirm and poor are such an inconvenience to the administration. Sometimes the resemblence between Bush and Paris Hilton is astonishing.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:23 amI got a idea how to get rid of this earned income credit gift what I hear the poor people are getting. Lets pay em enough money so that they can't qualify for it. Hell, lets pay em so much that they wont even come close to qualifying. Haw haw! That'll teach em!
March 21st, 2007 at 12:26 am$300 billion spent in Iraq and no money for New Orleans.
You neocon pr*cks better watch out for all the terrorists you're creating in this country. How many kids were displaced by the hurricane? They'd be crazy not to be pissed at the way they and their families have been treated.
I'm pissed and I just watched on tv.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:29 amThey still can’t find a job after all these YEARS!!!
Comment by Jake — March 20, 2007 @ 7:29 pm
1 year asswipe.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:31 amRepulicans are pi$$ed because incompetent Dem Mayor Ray Nagin and Dem Governor Kathleen Blanco did SO little to evacuate the the infirm and poor. Who can forget the acres of school buses left behind??
Shane????
March 21st, 2007 at 12:31 amAnyone?.... Anyone????....
they’re called “constituentsâ€.
Comment by valiant venus — March 20, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
Women like you make it obvious why men will never stop using the word Bitch. I could care less what kind of stupid shit comes out of your mouth I just wish they thought you were some idiot guy instead of a woman. Although from what I've heard nobody can tell the difference by looking at you.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:38 amSo mad are these republicans that they have decided to emulate said incompetent democrats and also refuse to help the huddled masses in new orleans. Good form.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:41 amto what do you attribute the spike in crime in Houston?
Comment by valiant venus — March 20, 2007 @ 8:03 pm
I don't know - how about POVERTY? It's usually a precurser to crime. But then again the White House has plenty of money and they're still committing quite a bit of crime apparently.
Everybody has a right to be ignorant and ugly but really VV you abuse the privilege.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:42 amJackie - Since Katrina, to what do you attribute the spike in crime in Houston? Comment by valiant venus — March 20, 2007 @ 8:03 pm
Oh yeah VV - too many f#cking Texans could be a problem too. Too much racism, obviously from your comment accompanied by benign neglect. That could be it shit for brains.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:46 amThey only pay income tax, Jackie on INCOME that’s reported.
VV - how about sale tax - you know the poor tax - the one that affects poor people more than anybody else. Those have gone up almost everywhere since you Bushy leader came into office and gave the wealthy their tax breaks.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:53 amOh you don't thin 8% or 12% whatever means a lot when you make $11,000 a year. Cause that's what your peeps were holding minimum wage to.
You're such an ass.
Shane - Thank you for confirming you are not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. POVERTY is not the single largest factor when determining a crime spike. (Some of the best and most determined parents out there are at the lower end of the socio-economic scale - some of the WORST parents are extremely wealthy or upper middle class. This is not to infer there are no rotten poor parents or fabulous well-tod parents. It is merely to suggest your sweeping "answer" is incorrect.) To recap: Poor parenting is THE largest single reason our prisons population number almost 2 million people.
Naturally, I don't expect much more from you than ad hominem attacks - I should not expect more from someone who continually demonstrates his/her incapability.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:54 amShane, you Smug Diva - They don't pay sales tax on food. And everyone should contribute something to the society (even if it's in the form of sales tax on clothing, personal items, etc.) Citizens who use the schools, parks, infrastructure, law enforcement, beaches, DMV, public transportation, etc. should contribute something - it will help them NOT to feel like freeloaders.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:58 amShane - Thank you for confirming you are not the brightest bulb in the chandelier...I should not expect more from someone who continually demonstrates his/her incapability. Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 12:54 am
Speaking of ad hominem attacks...
March 21st, 2007 at 1:00 amNo, iiiit, I was being kind.....Shane has rarely, if ever, provided a fact or other tidbit of useful information. Bless her heart, I don't think she's capable....If I were launching a purely personal attack, I would not have bothered citing facts (from the DOJ and the California Department of Corrections) and simply called her a blithering idiot.....So sweet of you to care!
March 21st, 2007 at 1:08 amAnyone?…. Anyone????….
Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 12:31 am
How about a federal government and the Army Corp of Engineers that didn't shore up the levees. Oh the old ladies were supposed to carry sand bags out there and shore it up themselves.
The worst natural disaster in US recent history and the administration couldn't even turn the tv on to see what was happening.
It's plain to see your place in hell will be waiting for you bitch.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:11 amBut I don't care, either for Shane or for you. I was merely pointing out how your posting both condemned ad hominem attacks and engaged in them simultaneously.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:13 amTHE largest single reason our prisons population number almost 2 million people.
Naturally, I don’t expect much more from you than ad hominem attacks - I should not expect more from someone who continually demonstrates his/her incapability.
Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 12:54 am
Wrong again - its POVERTY. Look it up. I'd have a batle of wits with you trailer trash but you're clearly unarmed.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:14 amCitizens who use the schools, parks, infrastructure, law enforcement, beaches, DMV, public transportation, etc. should contribute something -
Comment by valiant venus
Exactly, so when a WalMart good-for-nothing CEO makes 22 million just for achieving the expected goals while sitting in his office, answering a free hand cell phone, planning a nice dinner in the best places and paying 100,000 swedish escorts they are contributing so much...to this planet, cuz we all know how hard Wal Mart CEOs and executive directives work for contribution.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:15 amVeneral venom here's some things you do pay sales tax on:
soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, comb, brush, clothes, shoes
Just a few things that might come in handy if you were looking for a job.
And how about the wealthiest 1% contributing their fair share because obviously they have the biggest sense of entitlement. No but they need to save it to pass down four generations from now.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:20 amLet's let kids today rot - as long as they're safe in the womb that's the last care we can expect from your no morality whatsoever type.
VV before I'm off to bed here's a thought -
but for an accident of birth we could have all been born poor in New Orleans. Without money or a car to leave town where would you have gone. And you would have expected nobody to come get you?
March 21st, 2007 at 1:27 amThat's not the vision of American I had, up until Katarina when I was proven horribly wrong.
I guess you are right. We are a country of self-centered good for nothing pigs. Thanks for straightening me out.
Thank you for confirming you are not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 12:54 am
This is really funny coming from you, Varmint Genus -because you are still the dimmest bulb in any chandelier.
It is merely to suggest your sweeping “answer†is incorrect.
Says the queen of sweeping generalizations.
Poor parenting is THE largest single reason our prisons population number almost 2 million people.
Really? The increase in prison population of recent years was due to the rising criminalization of behavior, like drug addiction, and the "get tough" approach, according to the DOJ. A sizable percentage is serving time for non-violent crimes.
So, drug addiction is due to poor parenting?
Naturally, I don’t expect much more from you than ad hominem attacks
Says the queen of ad hominem attacks.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:41 amRe: Katrina - Thank you Shane, for NOT addressing the dereliction of duty by Dems Nagin and Blanco - - there really was NOTHING useful you say to repudiate the fact that those CLOSEST the disaster did absolutely nothing to assist those who needed assistance most.
Re: POVERTY and Crime - You should meet with local law enforcement and they will tell you their worst problems come from poorly parented children - whether they are rich, middle class or poor. I know the FACTS may confuse you, but I will patiently explain them to you in language even YOU can understand.
#80 - ".....Veneral venom here’s some things you do pay sales tax on:soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, comb, brush, clothes, shoes" More Shane
March 21st, 2007 at 1:49 amDO you even read what you are responding to? My #73 noted: "....even if it’s in the form of sales tax on clothing, personal items, etc. No wonder you are such a sophomoric self-loathing, little twit..... Sweet dreams!!
Why are all these aholes from Texas? There are decent people in Texas, where are the representatives for the decent people?
March 21st, 2007 at 1:52 amBefore I turn in, Shane, don't forget that YOU are always welcome to pay more than your fair share of taxes so as to assuage your horrible pangs of guilt and relieve the weight of that GIGANTIC chip on your shoulder. And while you're at it, how many homeless drug addicts have you taken home today?
Toooodles......
March 21st, 2007 at 1:54 amRe: Katrina - Thank you Shane, for NOT addressing the dereliction of duty by Dems Nagin and Blanco - - there really was NOTHING useful you say to repudiate the fact that those CLOSEST the disaster did absolutely nothing to assist those who needed assistance most. Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 1:49 am
Yeah, because they had *so-many* National guard resources to do something. You're a st*pid c*nt Mini-Aphrodite.
Re: POVERTY and Crime - You should meet with local law enforcement and they will tell you their worst problems come from poorly parented children - whether they are rich, middle class or poor. I know the FACTS may confuse you, but I will patiently explain them to you in language even YOU can understand. Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 1:49 am
That explains a *criminal* person like yourself. I know the FACTS may confuse you, but I patiently explain them to you in language even YOU can understand. You're an Anorexic, self loathing, sexually confused woman, with criminal and violent tendencies because of that POOR PARENTING! For once we agree on your bad parenting - st*pid c*nt.
#80 - “…..Veneral venom here’s some things you do pay sales tax on:soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, comb, brush, clothes, shoes†More Shane
DO you even read what you are responding to? My #73 noted: “….even if it’s in the form of sales tax on clothing, personal items, etc. No wonder you are such a sophomoric self-loathing, little twit….. Sweet dreams!! Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 1:49
am
It's so funny to see an Anorexic self loathing, *ugly* c*nt like you, you little twit, talking about *anything* serious!!! That's funny - st*pid c*nt!
March 21st, 2007 at 2:10 amYou should meet with local law enforcement and they will tell you their worst problems come from poorly parented children
Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 1:49 am
Better yet: rather than anecdotal evidence, my lawyer wannabe fiend, why don't you provide a link to the DOJ to support this one contention of yours?
Because you have finally learned how to include a working link, yes? I mean, it's only been over a year that you've been posting here.
I know the FACTS may confuse you,
More unintentional humor from Varmint Genus -speaking of FACTS, why don't you tell us another dead child joke? You can claim you were cleverly using satire when called on it.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:11 amBefore I turn in, Shane, don’t forget that YOU are always welcome to pay more than your fair share of taxes so as to assuage your horrible pangs of guilt and relieve the weight of that GIGANTIC chip on your shoulder. And while you’re at it, how many homeless drug addicts have you taken home today? Toooodles…… Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 1:54 am
Homeless drug addicts are they one way you're gonna get banged, you disgusting freak! Why don't you put away that GIGANTIC CHIP on your soldier that makes you *feel* you're being *victimized* by taxes! You're welcome to pay YOUR SHARE for a change - st*pid c*nt - so you don't feel so guilty from your avoidance of responsibility.
You're such a st*pid c*nt - you Anorexic C*nt and professional *victim*!
March 21st, 2007 at 2:12 am#84: Why are all these aholes from Texas? There are decent people in Texas, where are the representatives for the decent people?
Comment by Liberty Lover — March 21, 2007 @ 1:52 am
Ask Tom Delay and the other gerrymanderers...
March 21st, 2007 at 7:35 amCompasionate conservatives at work...
March 21st, 2007 at 8:15 amRequired reading...
Especially for you, Valiant
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1174456253193610.xml&coll=1
Art from N.O.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:10 amShane, you Smug Diva - They don’t pay sales tax on food. Comment by VV
Only in certain states do they not pay sales tax on food. Some states in the cotton south do still pay taxes on food. Research please before you post.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:14 amThey still can’t find a job after all these YEARS!!!
Comment by Jake — March 20, 2007 @ 7:29 pm
It's been 18 months, not "years," jake-ass.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:16 amJackie - Since Katrina, to what do you attribute the spike in crime in Houston?
Comment by valiant venus — March 20, 2007 @ 8:03 pm
Crime was increasing nationwide before Katrina. This is just another canard.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:21 amRepulicans are pi$$ed because incompetent Dem Mayor Ray Nagin and Dem Governor Kathleen Blanco did SO little to evacuate the the infirm and poor. Who can forget the acres of school buses left behind??
Shane????
Anyone?…. Anyone????….
Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 12:31 am
So, your solution is to further punish those people that you say others failed to help. Very sensible. I envy your intellect. Oh, I use a 'b' to spell Republican.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:27 amThey don’t pay sales tax on food.
Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 12:58 am
How would you know? When I was last in New Orleans, I paid sales tax on food.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:31 amthose CLOSEST the disaster did absolutely nothing to assist those who needed assistance most.
Comment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 1:49 am
And, you're doing what, exactly?
You're wrong, if I take your usage of "absolutely nothing" in the conventional sense. State of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries rescue teams were in the water on Monday, working as long as light lasted, every day after that. The Governor used a longstanding plan to contra-flow the interstates to evacuate the City - about 85%, more than a million people. Lt. Gov. Landrieu was also in the water rescuing people. I could go on...
March 21st, 2007 at 9:40 amThank you Bienville, for your insights. I applaud Gov. Blanco's plan which allowed the highways to accommodate evacuating traffic. But what good did THAT do the old and infirm (which was the topic of this discussion)?
I am still in awe of a young man who managed to resourcefully take a school bus from the school maintenance yard - there were PLENTY to choose from - and manage to load it with stranded people for a "road trip" to Houston. With ingenuity like that, this young man should have a bright and rewarding future.
If the Dem politicians in Louisiana and New Orleans are charging sales tax on foodstuffs, doesn't that show a cavalier lack of concern for the poor and disadvantaged?
March 21st, 2007 at 11:02 amBienville > Sen. Landrieu NEVER rescued a single person in New Orleans. She never even got her feet wet. Bush Regime is responsible for most of the crap that occured after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, but Landrieu's actions were pathetic too.
March 21st, 2007 at 11:05 amComment by Jay Randal — March 21, 2007 @ 11:05 am
I'm sorry, Jay. You misread my post. I referrred to Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu. He is Senator Mary Landrieu's brother.
March 21st, 2007 at 11:25 amBienville > yes I just noticed that you had Lt. Gov. before Landrieu. He needs to slap his sister because she has disgraced their family.
March 21st, 2007 at 11:32 amI guess God knows a good-fer-nuttin welfare cheat when He sees one... dat's why he whupped dat hurricane on em... fortunately our Noble Plutocrats are right dere wid God and won't let em get away wid stuff while Nancy Pelosi is still feelin sorry for em... Hey Macaca, wamme to help ya find dose bootstraps?
March 21st, 2007 at 11:59 amComment by valiant venus — March 21, 2007 @ 11:02 am
What about Jeb Hensarling's proposal? I don't see anyone asking Floridians to work-off their Charlie/Jeanne/Wilma/Frances/Hugo aid. I saw lots of cash being funneled down there, lots of fraud too. I don't see anyone asking NewYorkers to work-off their 9-11 aid. Lots of cash and fraud there, too - big corporations like Consolidated-Edison got paid; airlines got paid. What makes Louisianians and Mississippians different?
What existing government agency would you use to administer this new requirement? Who would audit the jobs for their special approvable qualitiy? Who would audit the workers to ensure they perform their magical 20 hours? Would you create a new agency - expand government - to accomplish all of this?
Bless us with the benefit of your sparkling insight.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:22 pmI'm relieved to see I'm not the only person to want to give Texas back to Mexico.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:55 pmThey don’t pay sales tax on food
Comment by valiant venus #74
virulent venereal (disease),
...you LYING, IGNORANT yeast infection...
...EVERYONE knows that poor people...
...pay MORE for foor, gas, and everything else...
...in their neighborhoods there's a (hidden tax) attached to food...
...sold in poor neighborhoods...
...AND it's OLD (meat and other perishables)...
March 21st, 2007 at 7:42 pmSilly liberals. Katrina was never an issue about race or class because both black and white, rich and poor, were affected by the storm. Sadly there is a segment of New Orleans' population addicted to the welfare state and will continue to sponge off of the government as long as we continue to spoon feed them like needy children. There's another segment that, with hard work and self-reliance, are rebuilding their lives and not whining about it. Libs, your hearts are in the right place but unfortunately your brains aren't.
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:17 pmComment by KP — March 22, 2007 @ 5:17 pm
How does any of your nonsensical post address Hensarling's now-defeated proposal?
Under his proposal, even your "hard work and self-reliance" crowd would have to walk away from their self-started recovery effort and work-off their aid. I will put the same question to you: Why place this requirement on LA and MS? This has never been a burden of any other disaster victim. Not in FL after 2004 hurricanes, not in NY after 9-11. Why these people, why now?
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