Emergency housing

[RoConroy@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/14/2005 10:41:41 AM Central Standard Time, 
jsnow527 at hotmail.com writes:
One thing that I've heard that I found interesting:

The government paid to have several cruise ships stationed in the gulf to 
provide shelter for displaced families for 6 months or more.  My 
sister-in-law in Houston says that when the folks in the dome in Houston 
were offered this option, the majority declined -- they preferred to stay 
there in the dome.  I don't know how true this is and whether they were able 
to fill the cruise ships or not but it is an interesting note that it's not 
enough just to bring in options, they have to be options that the people 
will use.
         The story I read, which seemed to be reafirmed by the statements of 
a black legislator on the news, was that the blacks were afraid that they 
would be taken back to Africa on the boats. This was with respect to the Super 
Dome, but it might apply also to the Houston dome as well.  Being that the people 
in the Super Dome, are now in the Houston dome, at one time they were given 
the option, but it was probably while in New Orleans, were the boats are 
located, and not in Houston.  Keep in mind that the cost of the lease for the boats 
was in the range of $230 million for six months, which comes out to be about 
$1200 per person per month.  It was also people like Jessie Jackson, who tried 
to infer that the government also blew the levies.  This to discredit the 
government and put the rebuilding funds in his hands.
       Let us get real, for the most part, the remaining people in New 
Orleans stayed because they didn't want to be inconvenienced into taking the steps 
necessary to leave. The dependency attitude of the welfare state still exist.  
Instead of looking out for themselves, they look towards the governmnent.  You 
live below water level, you have a levi system rated for hurricane level 3, 
and you have a level 5, three days away from shore, what would you do?
       We are talking about irrational people, whose leaders are mostly 
clerics or lawyers, whose whole livelyhood depends on misrepresenting  facts to 
people.  
      And people didn't really choose to stay in the Super Dome, it was 
simply that those that walked to the next parrish were turned back with guns.  It 
appears that some Super Dome refugee started burning down one of the 
surrounding shopping centers, and the local law establishment took exception, and 
started turning people back to where they came from.
     And the reason that the Red Cross didn't get into the dome initially was 
because the Louisiana National Guard didn't allow them to pass their 
blockade, because the governor  wanted to encourage the Super Dome people to leave. 
              On the news tonight I saw this lady with crocodile tears crying 
about her house being washed away in New Orleans.  Give me a break, if you 
build your house 20 feet below the level of the adjacent lake, and have a 
notorious corrupt local government having input about the care of your levies, you 
might come up to the plate, and admit that a day of reckoning might be sometime 
in your future.  And by the way, that crocidile lady was driving a brand new 
Cadilac, but at the same time, asking for the government to give her a new 
home, and by the way, she wanted the new home to be in New Orleans. Hopefully no 
one is stupid enough to give out any more building permits on ground below the 
level of the lake.  
      If you want to be charitable, give to those children in Pakistan, who 
didn't make unwise choices, and who didn't have 3 days notice of disaster 
coming, and have lost everything, and have winter a week away.  
Bob