From FEMA: Merry Christmas...

[Troubleshooter]

...now get the fuck out.

http://www.alternet.org/katrina/28623/

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"The clock is ticking for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, with a Dec. 1 FEMA deadline approaching that will end the direct payment program subsidizing their transitional accommodations. FEMA officials have said they are working closely with state and local officials to avoid a shelter crisis for the 150,000 evacuees who still live in hotel rooms nationwide, but local health and human service workers are bracing for a crunch of homelessness.

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Doesn't surprise me. We are spending billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq after we tore it down in the first place, meanwhile our own who are low income disabled and elderly, as well as single parent families with small children, live in substandard housing or on the streets. Why should the victims of Katrina be any different?

This is not just a failure of FEMA, but a failure of the current administration in general. Despite the impact of Katrina, the Bush administration again wants to make cuts in the housing voucher program that helps this country's low income seniors and disabled remain indoors. Under the current proposal, Colorado alone will lose over 2,000 vouchers by 2010.

Victims of Katrina can prepare themselves for a very long wait for housing assistance, if any at all.

[BigV]

Some 5000 (number not directly pulled from my rear, but from my memory...) here in Washington. The main complaint is that the waiting lists already in place for people waiting for affordable housing, to transition from hotels to rent-based places, these people shouldn't be displaced by hurricane victims. I agree with that. One isn't more needy than the other, based on the reason for the need. We're facing a spike in the need, without a corresponding spike in supply.

On a related note, the national FEMA decision to end the subsidies with *nine days notice* (really shitty, if you ask me), that deadline was generously extended to 15 Dec. Thanks.

[Elspode]

How come when this administration looks at evolution and prayer in the schools, they behave like a Theocracy, but when it looks at old fashioned Christian charity, it behaves like a Republic? Isn't that kinda backwards?

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Elspode

How come when this administration looks at evolution and prayer in the schools, they behave like a Theocracy, but when it looks at old fashioned Christian charity, it behaves like a Republic? Isn't that kinda backwards?

Nail on the head. I suppose because charity costs money, while evolution and prayer in schools is just something they can wave a wand at and it appears. No money issue.

[Elspode]

All we really need to do is make sure that $500 billion gets into Halliburton's hands. They'll have a very nice 1,000 square foot ranch home built in no time to house all those people. That's *one* 1,000 square foot ranch home.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Brianna

evolution and prayer in schools is just something they can wave a wand at and it appears.

Even better - they can wave a wand and nothing happens, but people still vote for them! The politicians know full well that evolution and prayer in schools won't be rolled back, but they can squeeze out some votes by fussing about it without any action.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

The politicians know full well that evolution and prayer in schools won't be rolled back...

Except in Kansas, which isn't really a State, but more of a backwater cesspool of cows, corn and cash-driven politics, all swirled up in a yummy nougat of religion.

[warch]

Extension! Jan 7. Merry f##*% Christmas!

[Trilby]

Focus on the Family is what happens when yuppies marry and procreate. Goddamn yuppies!

[xoxoxoBruce]

the decent folk of Colorado are leaving, as well.

This is what the founding fathers warned us was the danger of majority rule and wrote the Constitution so minorities could not be bullied, legally.
Of course that was before the Constitution was gutted.