FEMA Protecting Itself, But Not Evacuees?

[nhboy]

"(CBS) There are still 50,000 families along the Gulf Coast living in travel trailers given to them by FEMA. Six months ago we began investigating reports of toxic formaldehyde fumes making some of those people sick. And as Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports, FEMA has done more to cover their own backs than help the people in the trailers. Many of the trailers are loaded with toxic formaldehyde fumes and people are still getting sick.

CBS News has learned that while telling the residents of its trailers that it is still working on the formaldehyde problem, it appears it prohibits its own staff from even briefly stepping inside trailers once residents have moved out.

FEMA Protecting Itself, But Not Evacuees?, CBS News Obtains Emails Indicating Agency Prohibits Its Own Staff From Entering Toxic Trailers - CBS News

 

[Sonsie]

For Gawd’s sake! Take the trailers back and give these folks the freakin’ boot then. It’s been over two years! Get a job, pull it together, quit pissin’ and moanin’ and find a real house and stop sucking on the government teat.

Not to be unnecessarily rough, but after a while it gets somewhat tiresome to hear complaints about the flavor of the beer from f###heads who have spent years with their mouths firmly attached to the tap.

 

[vraiblonde]

For Gawd’s sake! Take the trailers back and give these folks the freakin’ boot then. It’s been over two years! Get a job, pull it together, quit pissin’ and moanin’ and find a real house and stop sucking on the government teat.

Not to be unnecessarily rough, but after a while it gets somewhat tiresome to hear complaints about the flavor of the beer from f###heads who have spent years with their mouths firmly attached to the tap.

I have nothing to add to that :shrug:

 

[awpitt]

For Gawd’s sake! Take the trailers back and give these folks the freakin’ boot then. It’s been over two years! Get a job, pull it together, quit pissin’ and moanin’ and find a real house and stop sucking on the government teat.

Not to be unnecessarily rough, but after a while it gets somewhat tiresome to hear complaints about the flavor of the beer from f###heads who have spent years with their mouths firmly attached to the tap.

Wow. So, how do you really feel??

 

[JPC sr]

Ferrous Canus, and Stupidus Giganticus.

"(CBS) There are still 50,000 families along the Gulf Coast living in travel trailers given to them by FEMA. Six months ago we began investigating reports of toxic formaldehyde fumes making some of those people sick. And as Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports, FEMA has done more to cover their own backs than help the people in the trailers. Many of the trailers are loaded with toxic formaldehyde fumes and people are still getting sick.

CBS News has learned that while telling the residents of its trailers that it is still working on the formaldehyde problem, it appears it prohibits its own staff from even briefly stepping inside trailers once residents have moved out.

FEMA Protecting Itself, But Not Evacuees?, CBS News Obtains Emails Indicating Agency Prohibits Its Own Staff From Entering Toxic Trailers - CBS News

The problem from the beginning was that the gov was demanding the trailers to be given back and that is why the people got stuck there.

If the trailers were given to those that needed them then they could have hooked the trailer to a car and moved to where ever they needed to relocate, but since the gov did not give them trailers and only used the trailers as temporary housing then the people were stuck there with no way to leave.

It is simply a matter of gov selfishness, and now it is a bigger mess.

 

[nhboy]

For Gawd’s sake! Take the trailers back and give these folks the freakin’ boot then. It’s been over two years! Get a job, pull it together, quit pissin’ and moanin’ and find a real house and stop sucking on the government teat.

Not to be unnecessarily rough, but after a while it gets somewhat tiresome to hear complaints about the flavor of the beer from f###heads who have spent years with their mouths firmly attached to the tap.

Telling 50,000 katrina familys to suck it up! Easy for you to say.....

Are FEMA trailers ‘toxic tin cans’? - Katrina, The Long Road Back - MSNBC.com

 

[MMDad]

Telling 50,000 katrina familys to suck it up! Easy for you to say.....

In the months following Katrina, yes that would be pretty heartless.

Two YEARS later? And they still want to live off the government teat and whine about it?

You can be a bleeding heart all you want, but the truth is you cannot help those who aren't willing to help themselves. No sympathy for anyone who hasn't picked themselves back up TWO YEARS later.

 

[This_person]

The problem from the beginning was that the gov was demanding the trailers to be given back and that is why the people got stuck there.

If the trailers were given to those that needed them then they could have hooked the trailer to a car and moved to where ever they needed to relocate, but since the gov did not give them trailers and only used the trailers as temporary housing then the people were stuck there with no way to leave.

It is simply a matter of gov selfishness, and now it is a bigger mess.

Those bastards, demanding back stuff that wasn't given, but loaned, to people who didn't pay for the stuff, but want it anyway. Why, the government should give everyone everything, and tell us how to feel about it so we know! And cars that will pull mobile homes, too!