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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
To drop some reality:
My mom is not poor, owns her own home, 1 car, relatively cool job, doesnt work hard - been on her own since she had me at 20.
She has been reduced to living in motels with my brothers, my grandmother, uncles, my dad etc... not only living off of credit cards because banking is not yet working for residents who lived there, but having to accept "relief checks" from her home insurance company. And stand in line with the poorest of the poor as well.
So, while its easy to say people will be spending it on alcohol and KOOLs - please realize there are people even like my mom and dad who now are left without jobs, and have already spent over $2,000 evacuating, feeding all family members every day fast food, and hotel rooms, supplies, gas, etc... FEMA will not pay her credit cards off nor does she expect them to. She knows she is lucky to even have that option.
As someone who knows more than a dozen WHITE PEOPLE who will be accepting need this way, its pretty offensive to assume most are bnlack an going to buy beer and KOOls.
i mean, come on.
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everyone would have said its hateful and racist beforehand, to suggest that people would be looting the city and stealing everything that was not nailed down just because they could.
there are obviously many exceptions - but NO is also has over 30% of people living below the poverty line, so its not like we are talking about financial wizards who can stretch a dollar either. and those people who will waste money only hurt themselves, anyone they are responsible and do so at the expense of those who could have been helped by simple distributing food, medicine, clothes, blankets and shelter with that money.