squatters
Monday, July 21st, 2008I 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.
