Congress should get their butts back to DC to fund FEMA

i read somewhere that they are having an emergency meeting tonight in DC.

BBB, FEMA has mismanaged the funds that come to them via us. They gave money to rich folks for burial of their dead. Why should we think that anything would change for the poor and indigent in the hurricane areas.

Letty
Letty, this ain't Florida where brother Jeb rules.

I think there are too many eyes watching what is going on in the tri-state areas and that most of the money will be used for the people it is intended to help. At least one can hope some of it will.

I'm so pissed at the congress (it seems I'm pissed a lot these days, doesn't it?) at the call to return to DC to take care of aid business.

Some of them whined that they were in different parts of the world. Well, damn, they found a way to get to those desitinations, they better find a way to get back to DC or we will have to assume they are too stupid to serve in congress.

Sheeesh!

BBB

BBB

Do you ever say anything productive?

Re: Letty



No, it is about FEMA and how they have made colossal errors in the past. Not just in Florida but everywhere.


As to the members of Congress returning, yes they did get to their various destinations but it takes some time to return and it was not immediately clear to everyone just how severe the level of damage from Hurricane Katrina was and how it would increase in severity over the following days. Until the levees failed it may have seemed that the worst was over as is usually the case with hurricanes. Since it has not been even a week yet I think we need to cut them a little slack in their return time. If you wee on vacation in some location and heard about the hurricane and heard it had passed and that the rain and wind had moved on, would you immediately start packing your bags to return home? Not until the total level of devastation was realized did this plan set into action and all things considered they are doing their best to get it together and get back as soon as is humanly possible. Could you do better? If so, do share the glorious details of HOW you would pull it all together along with your 14 points of salvation for the storm ravaged residents.

And to echo Chai Tea Do you EVER say ANYTHING PRODUCTIVE?

Come on, folks. There's no need to gang up on BBB because she feels passionate about things.

This isn't passion, it's obsession.

A very unhealthy one I might add.......

Have either of you offered to open up your home to displaced people?

What have you done to help?

I've asked several times - so I suppose I've gotten as obsessive as BBB - yet, not one answer that is productive.

Right this instant, the company I work for is taking in patients that need care, opening extra shift, putting displaced medical personnel to work in other states so they maintain an income, and contributing to disaster aid.

We have turned one our clinics whose contruction was not yet complete, into a dormitory.


I'll stop asking BA when she answers like an intelligent rational person, not some maniac running around out of control with her tiresome regurgitation.

I think that's a little too late. I am disappointed that they extended their vacation a day past Monday.

They are going to vote on it this weekend. However, some GOP leaders are expressing concerns about rebuilding a city that lies below sea level.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5249170,00.html





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Since I have been talking about this I feel the need to defend myself by saying that I am looking around for charity drives. Probably will contribute to the red cross. (do I need update with proof later?)

Those who give the most often talk about it the least. No. :wink:

Chai Tea
Chai Tea, I don't think you want to go there with your snide questions.

I've spent most of my adult life trying to right wrongs and help people who need it on a professional and volunteer basis---and, on a few occasions, have put my life on the line for it.

So don't try to mess with me over a test of compassion. You would lose.

BBB

Re: Chai Tea



I'm not being snide, those are legitimate questions, which you seem unwilling to answer.

I'm not testing your compassion.

I'm not trying to mess with you.

I don't have any spirit of competition, I couldn't care less about winning or lossing, it's all the same thing in the big cosmic wheel of life.

I wasn't aware of there was anything going on to win or lose between the two of us.....but if it makes you feel any better, fine, you win, I lose.

I don't even know anything about you......

I just wish you'd get off you soapbox and move on.......it's getting very tedious and boring, and obviously I'm not alone.

Really BBB........grow up, your remarks to me are childish and threatening.