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I wasn’t surprised when I read the T.P. article about a private security firm, hired by the road home was finding squatters in abandoned homes owned by the road home. I would think that this problem will get worse since the crackdown of the Hooverville under the interstate.
reading the usual vulgar comments that follow such stories I have to award my ungly american trophy to this guy.

Posted by mcmurphyrp on 07/20/08 at 10:58PM
The Road Home program is socialism at its best. People who do not have insurnace and when a catastrophe hits, the Federal Gov’t bails them out with taxpayer money. Many other people pay homeowners insurance and did not get a handout. Is this not penalizing the people who sacrifice to carry insurance. Why should anyone pay for insurance if the Fed Gov’t is going to provide “Road Home” money for those that don’t have it. Especially idiots who live below MSL that do not have flood insurance. Only idiots live next to a large body of water where their house is below the surface of the water, and then blame the U.S.A.C.E. because the levees broke. Similar to those that build on side of a cliff and rebuild on the same cliff after it collapses.

The real reason that the U.S. is having problems is because we have become selfish, and self centered. Compassion and a sense of doing the right thing do not seem to be a concern of Ugly America.

It would be nice to be able to lump everyone into the ugly American category but I know too many fellow Americans who do not think that way. Those who take the selfish route just make it harder on those who don’t to convince the world that we do not all feel that way.

As far as blaming the U.S.A.C.E. for levee failure, the failed levees were not what they said they were. The construction was flawed and the corps should have recognized this and fixed the problem before they were put to the test. Yes the corps a government agency should be blamed for much of what happened here. I only wish I had the confidence to say that they have learned their lesson.

It looks like the steeple on Rayne Memorial Church is almost finished. As I walked by the church on Saturday I had a flashback to the Tuesday after the storm. On that day I was riding my bike around surveying the damage. It was no easy task maneuvering the bike around the downed tree limbs and other debris. On that day the steeple of Rayne Church was all over the street. It’s funny the things that trigger these memories, when it happens they are very vivid and often give me that empty feeling in my stomach that I had at the time.

I first saw this comment by Joe Gallagher of Worthington, Ohio on b.rox blog , Joe actually won the coveted scuzzbucket of the week post at Thanks Katrina

Ilove NO and would like to live there someday but the mentality of a large part of the minority population is that they are owed something. Since Katerna, there has been Taco and Mexican restaurants popping up every where. That is great because the people rebuilding NO need to eat. It is sad the lazy locals have no energy to rebuild there town. I was in NO 3 times in the last 2 monthes and see alot of sitting around. There are parts where I can’t tell what ghetoo was pre or post Katrena. I send my money to the MS Gulf Coast where the real damage occurred.

Joe Gallagher Worthington, Oh

Joe doesn’t have a clue as to what happened here, or the fact that this city would not be where it is today if not for those lazy locals he refers to. This city has recovered to the point it has not because of government money, or leadership. It is recovering because of the lazy folk who live here. I for one want joe to keep his ignorant, racist ass in Ohio where ignorant racists belong.