Promoted by Steven D
Apparently, the federal government has determined that it should attempt to recoup some of the many millions which it has spent foolishly in last 7 years. Unfortunately, it looks to do this from those most in need. In a demonstration of the continuing indifference to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, thousand of families will be offered the opportunity to purchase the FEMA-provided trailers in which they currently reside, or, to begin paying rent.
Thousands of families living in the tinny white trailers provided by the federal government after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will be offered the opportunity to buy them for a few hundred dollars, under a $1 billion housing plan announced yesterday in Washington.
But those who do not buy their trailers will have to start paying a modest rent for them next March, with the payments beginning at $50 a month and escalating sharply thereafter. It was unclear what the upper limit was.
No known upper limit? For those who lost everything? When will the nightmare end for these people?
The numbers are not insignificant.
About 86,000 families are still living in the trailers a year and a half after the storms, said R. David Paulison, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which runs the trailer program. The majority of them are in Louisiana, although about 26,000 families occupy trailers in Mississippi.
The suffering of these people remains a story without end.
These rotten fucking bastards never give up do they…what’s that saying about kicking someone while they are down..as far as Katrina people go it’s more like stomping the shit out of them over and over so they will never be able to get up.
just when you think they’ve/we’ve reached the bottom, they outdo themselves with yet another accursed action.
conservatively speaking, we’re talking 250,000 – 300,000 persons still living in trailers in conditions not dissimilar to the notorious japanese interment camps of wwll, not counting those who have fallen through the cracks.
as AG says…WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
karma’s a bitch, and she knows where you live
guess not
Working at an R&D lab we occasionally get pieces of government contracts. Part of this gets me government trade magazines. One of these bills itself as “Your gateway to the billion dollar government IT world”. Yup,IT, jsut computers, not people.
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Thanks for promoting this, Steven.
You’re most welcome. Thanks for bringing the story to my attention.