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[OT] Oprah?
Did anyone see Oprah today?
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[OT] Oprah?
CatNipped wrote:
Did anyone see Oprah today? No, what was it about? -- Britta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. - Anonymous Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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"badwilson" wrote in message
... CatNipped wrote: Did anyone see Oprah today? No, what was it about? It was a report on where Katrina recovery is now, six months after the storm (which is pretty much not any further along than it was after the storm). People are living in tents, in apartments without roofs over their heads, eliminating body wastes in buckets because there is no working plumbing (and thus living next to open sewerage and getting sick as a result). And FEMA has more than 40 acres of trailers, empty and sitting on lots, and sinking into the mud getting ruined because the government will not give out a trailer without 500 pages of red tape paperwork!!!! [And hundreds of people, like my daughter's family, have been given a trailer (three weeks ago!!) but have not been hooked up to utilities because FEMA, fearing lawsuits, insist on make the hook-ups themselves - thus the trailers can't be lived in.] Bulldozers are sitting quiescent next to piles of rubble and *nothing* is getting cleaned up much less repaired because 10000 pages of red tape paperwork has not been filled out. Hundreds of thousands of people are still without even temporary homes and have no jobs with which to earn enough to buy a new home or repair their old one. There are still over 2,000 people (bodies) unaccounted for (only about 1,300 bodies have been recovered: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11281267/). There was a story about 2 brothers who begged for months for rescue teams to go and recover their mother's body - they knew exactly where she was, they watched her drown. They kept being told that the "intense searches" could not find her, and finally they went there themselves and found the body which was not buried under rubble, but was just hidden behind the debris of the house. I don't think they'll ever find all those bodies (they're, in truth, not even looking for bodies anymore and haven't since October of last year). They're going to (hopefully? eventually?) bulldoze all the pieces of homes and people's lives and all the bodies will be swept away with the trash. Evacuees are being told that their "temporary" shelters (hotel rooms, passenger ships, tents, etc.) will have to be vacated in March, but those people have no place to go to, no jobs to resume (95% of all businesses hit by Katrina have not reopened), no lives to return to. The stories of governmental and buerocratic failures went on and on and couldn't be completely told in just one hour (as I predicted back in August of last year, the politicians and large businesses - including the Red Cross - are making millions of dollars out of this trajedy, but the people who need help are not seeing a nickel of the millions of dollars donated "to them"). I think this is a national scandal. I'm deeply ashamed that my country could treat its own citizens in such a manner. We're spending *BILLIONS* of dollars destroying someone else's country while allowing ours to die both in spirit and, now, in reality. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ -- Britta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. - Anonymous Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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[OT] Oprah?
"CatNipped" wrote in message ... "badwilson" wrote in message ... I agree with you Cat. I am a proud American would do anything for it but hang my head in shame over the last couple years of dealing with these disasters. It is pretty bad when a 3 world country that was completely devastated is almost back to normal in less time than it takes us to get out proverbial foot out of our ass |
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CatNipped wrote:
"badwilson" wrote in message ... CatNipped wrote: Did anyone see Oprah today? No, what was it about? It was a report on where Katrina recovery is now, six months after the storm (which is pretty much not any further along than it was after the storm). People are living in tents, in apartments without roofs over their heads, eliminating body wastes in buckets because there is no working plumbing (and thus living next to open sewerage and getting sick as a result). And FEMA has more than 40 acres of trailers, empty and sitting on lots, and sinking into the mud getting ruined because the government will not give out a trailer without 500 pages of red tape paperwork!!!! [And hundreds of people, like my daughter's family, have been given a trailer (three weeks ago!!) but have not been hooked up to utilities because FEMA, fearing lawsuits, insist on make the hook-ups themselves - thus the trailers can't be lived in.] snip How horrible! I do hope something will be done now at least for the poor people there. Lots and lots of purrs and best wishes, Polonca and Soncek |
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[OT] Oprah?
Good gawd, what a disgrace! :-(
-- Britta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. - Anonymous Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album CatNipped wrote: "badwilson" wrote in message ... CatNipped wrote: Did anyone see Oprah today? No, what was it about? It was a report on where Katrina recovery is now, six months after the storm (which is pretty much not any further along than it was after the storm). People are living in tents, in apartments without roofs over their heads, eliminating body wastes in buckets because there is no working plumbing (and thus living next to open sewerage and getting sick as a result). And FEMA has more than 40 acres of trailers, empty and sitting on lots, and sinking into the mud getting ruined because the government will not give out a trailer without 500 pages of red tape paperwork!!!! [And hundreds of people, like my daughter's family, have been given a trailer (three weeks ago!!) but have not been hooked up to utilities because FEMA, fearing lawsuits, insist on make the hook-ups themselves - thus the trailers can't be lived in.] Bulldozers are sitting quiescent next to piles of rubble and *nothing* is getting cleaned up much less repaired because 10000 pages of red tape paperwork has not been filled out. Hundreds of thousands of people are still without even temporary homes and have no jobs with which to earn enough to buy a new home or repair their old one. There are still over 2,000 people (bodies) unaccounted for (only about 1,300 bodies have been recovered: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11281267/). There was a story about 2 brothers who begged for months for rescue teams to go and recover their mother's body - they knew exactly where she was, they watched her drown. They kept being told that the "intense searches" could not find her, and finally they went there themselves and found the body which was not buried under rubble, but was just hidden behind the debris of the house. I don't think they'll ever find all those bodies (they're, in truth, not even looking for bodies anymore and haven't since October of last year). They're going to (hopefully? eventually?) bulldoze all the pieces of homes and people's lives and all the bodies will be swept away with the trash. Evacuees are being told that their "temporary" shelters (hotel rooms, passenger ships, tents, etc.) will have to be vacated in March, but those people have no place to go to, no jobs to resume (95% of all businesses hit by Katrina have not reopened), no lives to return to. The stories of governmental and buerocratic failures went on and on and couldn't be completely told in just one hour (as I predicted back in August of last year, the politicians and large businesses - including the Red Cross - are making millions of dollars out of this trajedy, but the people who need help are not seeing a nickel of the millions of dollars donated "to them"). I think this is a national scandal. I'm deeply ashamed that my country could treat its own citizens in such a manner. We're spending *BILLIONS* of dollars destroying someone else's country while allowing ours to die both in spirit and, now, in reality. -- Britta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. - Anonymous Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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